Published: January 2014 · Updated: July 2026 · by arch. Dan Dumitriu · FD.STIL
Once you've chosen what to light, you choose what with. The silhouettes below are the basic vocabulary of any lighting plan — and all of them exist, in brass, in the workshop's collections.
They welcome guests and lead them further into the house. Ceiling lights or chain-hung lamps are used — for hallways, entrances, stairs and corridors.
They add sparkle and style to the living room, providing general light for dining rooms, bedrooms, foyers or above a piano. Drawn with shades, they also give task light above a games table or a desk.
Available with warm (3000K) or neutral (4000K) LED sources; with a dimmer they change intensity to match activity and mood.
They give general or task light. Fitted with a shade or globe, they hang above tables — dining, games, kitchen. Above a nightstand they save the space a table lamp would take.
The practical general light of traffic areas: foyers, bedrooms, corridors, bathrooms, kitchens. Available with LED or decorative vintage sources.
They give general or accent light. Most are drawn as a pair to the chandelier, to supplement light in adjoining spaces and keep the ensemble unified — in bedrooms, dining rooms, corridors.
Softly glowing globes, as in theatre dressing rooms — the ideal task light at the mirror, for make-up and grooming.
Task and accent light that moves where needed: table lamps and floor lamps in any style, plus the small ones — clip-on, adjustable, piano lamps — for precise needs.
General, task and accent light in one flexible system: they tilt, rotate and re-aim whenever the room's scheme changes. Pendants and chandeliers can also hang from the track.
Installed in the ceiling, it gives task or accent light anywhere in the house — and outdoors, in covered porches. Ideal for low ceilings: fixed, adjustable or wall-washing spotlights with LED sources.
Task and accent light at close range: under kitchen cabinets it lights the worktop, in display cases it flatters treasured objects, in workshops it puts light right at hand.
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