Light show: Picky Nicky’s favourite illuminating buys
Don't stay in the dark! Bring light to your life by way of Picky Nicky's illuminating edit from WallpaperSTORE*, our very own creative market place for design
Later this month, many of will be turning our clocks back. One consolation for the shorter days is that it’s time to stock up on lighting, to ensure that you, your spaces and all that stuff that refines you looks as good as possible. The WallpaperSTORE* lighting edit will transform your table, console or desk with a click of a switch.
Find out more about Objekto's 'Eclipse' lamp here
This week's exemplary illuminations include Inga Sempé’s charming shaded 'Sempé w103' table lamp for Sweden’s Wästberg, Omer Arbel’s blown glass '28d' sphere for Canadian specialists Bocci, Nendo’s pinched 'Press Lamp', in clear or smoke, for Bohemian glass maker Lasvit or Mark Holmes’s pared down, barely there, 'Neon' table light, in folded steel for London’s Minimalux. For something more classic there is the Anglepoise 'Original 1227 Desk Lamp', below, and from Brazil’s Objekto, Mauricio Klabin’s 1982 'Eclipse' lamp, above.
Find out more about the Anglepoise 'Original 1227 Desk Lamp' here
Our very own creative market place for design, WallpaperSTORE* stocks, wraps and dispatches our pick of the finely formed and forward thinking from around the world.
Nick Vinson, also known as Picky Nicky, has been an editor at Wallpaper* since 2012, curates the selection for WallpaperSTORE*, where he is general merchandising manager and also pens the monthly 'Vinson View' column in Wallpaper*.
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Also known as Picky Nicky, Nick Vinson has contributed to Wallpaper* Magazine for the past 21 years. He runs Vinson&Co, a London-based bureau specialising in creative direction and interiors for the luxury goods industry. As both an expert and fan of Made in Italy, he divides his time between London and Florence and has decades of experience in the industry as a critic, curator and editor.
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