These 3 Lighting Resources Will Brighten Any Home

Manhattan Remix chandelier by Barovier & Toso

Jay Johnson - There's no excuse not to embrace contemporary lighting solutions to amp up the wattage in any interior design scheme. Styling has never been more exciting and fashionable, and the number of companies offering startling new designs has never been greater.

Nepher Ceiling Lamp from Barovier & Toso

We've selected three of our favorite lighting resources - each one, new to us - and wanted to showcase some of our favorites from each for you. Click on the links below for more information.

• Barovier & Toso
• Terzani
• Kundalini

 Veronese Table Lamp from Barovier & Toso

Stream Chandelier from Terzani

Mizu Pendant Lights from Terzani

I Lucci Argentati Chandelier from Terzani

La La Lamp by Helen Konturis for Kundalini

Sama Hanging Lamps by Gregorio Spini for Kundalini

ETA sat Suspension Lamp by William Berchicci for Kundalini

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6 Favorite Interior Design Lights from Luce Plan

Jay Johnson - Bright ideas in lighting spring up all the time from talented product designers. New lighting gives interior designers and homeowners cause to celebrate. Fresh, contemporary designs are great ways to enliven tired interiors and shine light into the darkest corners of rooms, creating pools of inviting warmth. Luce Plan, the international lighting company and showroom, has an amazing array of lamps and other lights that we're craving - and here are 6 of our favorite designs. Click on each photo for more information.

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Click here to read Hot Lighting Solutions for Spring from the Architectural Digest Home Design Show.

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Positively Brilliant - Lighting Designs by Bec Brittain

Irwin Weiner ASID - I've just been shot up with truth serum, and I cannot lie: many of the exhibits at the latest Architectural Digest Home Design Show were boring and same-old-same-old. So imagine my delight when I discovered Bec Brittain, the talented industrial design and architecture trained product designer (from lighting to jewelry). Everything she does has a sculptural edge to it, a love of beautiful materials, a familiarity borne of combining elements from our collective past, and a love of modern LED technology. Her Maxhedron two-way mirror pendant light (top photo) is a revelation ... a floating optical spaceship that looks like a piece of contemporary designer jewelry.

Brittain's SHY Light (photo above) features skinny LED tubes in brass fittings that can be configured into infinite custom shapes. I loved how she's reworked the designs of Gerit Rietveld's 1920 Hanging Lamp - with its sculptural use of fluorescent tubes - yet given homage to his influence. Her beautiful A Shades line (photo below) features sensuous copper pendant shades suspended by leather rope.

Visit the Bec Brittain website for more information. Designers like Bec are the future of the interior design industry, and I hope to see many more push-the-envelope designs from her.

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3 Favorite Tiffany Lamps

Irwin Weiner ASID - Louis Comfort Tiffany was a master of interior design and decoration, and the lamps he created in the Tiffany Studios kept up with the times, changing from oil and gas lamps to lamps powered by electricity. Here are three designs we really love; click on each photo for more information.

What lamps are currently pushing the envelope? Click here to learn more about Modern Sculptural Lighting.

The following video from the Reading Public Museum is a great review of Tiffany's business life and career. It's fascinating, and you'll learn many new details about this fascinating artist and businessman.

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