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Lighting is very important, so we break it down into two standards. There's standard
lighting that's general lighting where you need for the room to lightly wash the walls
and there's accent lighting. I think there's that resurgence to that old world, almost
nautical, industrial, cape-cod meets brooklyn,
going back to that reclaim lantern, burnish
steels. There's a lot of custom lighting company and they're really fun to work with. I'm finding
that people are not necessarily just buying the lights, they're hunting for them, buying
re-salvaged stuff or evening designing their own. It's become so much more of a fun product
to design and a feature piece and a focal point.
When people buy lighting for their home they want those pieces to look sculptural and look
interesting and to kind of stand out. They don't want pieces that look like the kind
of thing that everyone else is going to have in their homes.
I think we're moving towards more architectural lighting, so that means seeing less lighting
and then really highlighting amazing fixtures. I found that for a certain period of time
we were always trying to put eye-candy everywhere and it looks really unsophisticated and kind
of crass in an interior. When you could choose two gorgeous, really designed fixtures and
then keep everything else quite quiet. I think we're seeing a return to that, you saw a lot
of that in the 60's and 70's even the end of 50's. So it's kind of exciting to see that
returning to contemporary interior. It's always been a part of modern interiors but contemporary
interiors is certainly seeing more of it.