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  • Excellent collection, compliments to the chef!

    One of my recent favourites - Le Soleil by Foscarini - https://www.foscarini.com/en/product/le-soleil-std-s-en/

    It's wonderfully asymmetrical without overdoing it, with every layer suspended and swaying independently when prodded. Exceptional light distribution.

    by eps
  • What a beautiful home. I love the office and desk setup specifically. The lamps are cool too.
    by m4tthumphrey
  • These look quite nice. I'm very protective of desk real estate for persistent things, though. Has anyone got a nice bright focus lamp when working on things. Most of the time my room is well-enough illuminated for things, but yesterday I was doing some minor maintenance on my 3d printer hot-end and I had to use my iPhone with the flashlight on propped up. Is there some kind of compact folding lamp which nonetheless has the ability to hold position and still be moved over specific parts of my table? Battery-operated would be ideal, but I can plug things in at worst.
    by arjie
  • Nice lamps, but what's with the photos very significantly stretched out of aspect ratio?
    by mnw21cam
  • Unrelated aside, but:

    > Fun fact: “Akari” means light in Japanese, both as illumination and as lightness.

    Wow! I love it when two languages have matching homonyms. I always wonder "what does it mean ?". Like, in English "second" to mean the unit of time and the place after "first" feels like two distinct usages. But it's the same in Spanish ("segundo"), which points to a deeper connection (and isn't so unsurprising given the shared roots of the languages): the unit of time is called that because it's the second subdivision of an hour.

    The two usages of "light" in English are so distinct I'm quite surprised it's like this in the entirely unrelated Japanese language. Is this just a big coincidence, or does anyone know any deeper reasons here?

    by losvedir
  • Lamps are a fantastic way to light an interior space. Recessed ceiling lights do not establish hierarchy in the dimensions that humans are most interested in. Getting the lighting source close to eye level is the key to success.

    At some level this turns into an accessibility and comfort issue. People with limited vision can take strong advantage of well placed lights. Highlights and shadows are some of the most fundamental elements of human visual perception. Without them our brain needs to work overtime to analyze a given scene.

    by bob1029
  • Does anyone know what piano keyboard that is at the "HAY Apex Floor Lamp" ?
    by HelloUsername
  • I have a lamp I really really like¹:

    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5LS2KQW

    I don't know how honeywell of all companies is selling this, but I figure they have engineers that they turned loose on and got out of their way.

    It is just super nice. Elegant looking, not expensive, very high quality illumination that can get bright, smoothly dimmable with a knob. a knob to adjust lighting is a good design.

    In comparison, dyson makes a lamp that is the same kind of interesting genre, but they cost 10-20x.

    [1] except to turn it off is inelegant - you have to press and hold instead of tap, because tap changes color temperature.

    by m463

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