Whetting your appetite on Valentine’s day… which also marks 4 years of lumière!
To celebrate Valentine’s Day and 4 years of lumière, I put on my favourite silk dress (the traditional gift to mark 4 years of togetherness) then Carla and I headed off to visit this beautiful master dressing suite bejewelled in our Kate Spade New York flower lights. It felt like the perfect setting to capture a photo to mark a day known for finding innovative ways of sending messages to secret crushes, such as folded handwritten notes, anonymous lipstick kisses on cards and roses left on doorsteps…
In past times I’ve been in the mindset of diving in head first and revealing the whole project at once but this time I want to do things differently. One step at a time. So I’m starting small and sharing one of the smallest spaces of this huge house project 66. Be patient with me…it will be worth the wait…x
Featured items:
Kate Spade NY Leighton flush mount in blush - Kate Spade NY Ellery Bow lamp- Kate Spade NY Leighton wall sconces- Kate Spade New York Keaton vanity lights
The lumière team’s WISH list & LUST list
To celebrate Valentine’s Day 2024 and to mark 4 years of lumière, we have each selected our favourite piece from the lumière collection and we have also selected a piece we have fallen for from within the broader wonderland of the lighting world.
Carla’s WISH list item:
My WISH list item would be the Collier by Sean Lavin.
Designer Sean Lavin is known for his modern design aesthetic combined with the most current LED technology.
The Collier meaning necklace in French is elegant, refined and with rigor. Sections of crystal that dazzle, effortless links of brass or Polished Nickel allowing for additional links to be added when desired– draping the ceiling of any residence would be utterly breath-taking.
Melissa met the designer Sean Lavin at High Point Trade show in the USA. Sean explained the design process behind this beautiful Collier light- inspired by a woman’s necklace- it even won the Design et al light award in 2022.
This confirms a room is not entirely dressed until the jewellery goes on – this piece would set the mood and emotion of the space and I feel this piece has the compacity to be a future antique.
Carla’s LUST list item
My LUST item would be …this spectacular purple string of giant glass beads, setting the stage and unveiling the Jewels on entry to a hallway – Palace worthy.
The Architectural allure of something so elegant and simple reminiscent of the Collier/ Designer Sean Lavin.
This art piece is made of Murano glass by artist Jean-Michel Othoniel.
Lust Love and Lavender.
Carla x
Stef’s WISH list item
My WISH list item would be The Farfalle Large Chandelier in Gild
I have loved this light since Melissa first gave me a sneak peek at a very special light she had planned for a window display at the gallery (I believe after talks she had with the designer about how its design came to be born in a dream one night). I really enjoy how the use of bare lightbulbs, warm gilded plating and twinkling butterflies create a visually pleasing juxtaposition between nature and man-made design. There is a playfulness with the bursts of butterflies and a raw-ness with the precious metals and unshielded bulbs that just appeals to me. It is a light I can't help but smile when I see it.
Recently, I have begun a tentative journey into Yoga, encouraged and nurtured by Melissa, and Butterflies have been a recurrent theme for me so far. It also helps that I have Italian family connections and my children are all named with the Italian variants of their names - so the Farfalle range speaks to me on many levels and I have visions of it gracing my daughters bedroom one day.
Stef ‘s LUST list item
Being a self-proclaimed computer and tech aficionado, I do not possess the same flair for interior design as my colleagues do. However, working at lumiére, it is impossible to not get drawn into the thought process behind why people choose to light their homes in the way that they do - and to come across your favourites.
This light I spotted in the background of a post from an instagram account that I follow and I found myself reverse-image searching their post to find it. Once I did, I was captivated by how the creators described the artisanal effort that went into designing this light - "a mosaic of windowpane oysters". I had never heard of capiz shells before I came across this light and again, I love how this light blends a man-made antique gold frame with shells cured in the ocean by nature. The result is a light where each piece will be wholly unique due to the natural variation in the capiz shells; and the thought of having a once living part of the ocean lighting up a corner of my house is a very appealing one.
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This is the Capiz Honeycomb pendant by Serena and Lily
Love, Light and Butterflies
Stef x
Melissa’s WISH list item:
Working with beautiful lights as a career means I fall head over heels for one of our lights most days depending on my mood, the room I am designing and the environment the light piece ends up being installed in. Recently my head has been turned by the Pedra range by style icon Kelly Wearstler.
I was first introduced to this range by Kelly Wearstler’s head of lighting Design, Seth Troyer, when I met him at Highpoint Market in North Carolina a couple of years ago. As I mentioned in a Woman and Home Magazine article last year, natural stones are set to become an even bigger trend in 2024. The little alabaster domes on the Pedra wall sconces remind me of toadstool heads and the Pedra two tier chandelier makes me think of clusters of pollen-covered stamens in flowers. Now this range is finally in our collection, I am really excited about playing with it in some beautiful roomsets.
Melissa’s LUST list item:
Recently Carla sent me the image of the most beautiful ceramic light I have ever seen. A sensual powdery shape reminiscent of two flowerheads kissing. The movement and detail of this light art by Mathieu Lehanneur makes my breath quicken and I could literally watch it for hours.
Nature as a muse always and forever for me…
Valentine’s love, lumière lights and floral delights
Melissa x
