The English Home

Lighting BY DESIGN

It is natural for the eye to be drawn to light sources, but if the fittings are things of beauty in their own right, their power to enhance an interior will even remain by day when the lights are turned off. “If you compare a room scheme to an outfit, then decorative lighting is the jewellery,” says Harriet Daniels, founder and creative director of Tigermoth Lighting. “Specific to the space it is in, lighting has the ability to make or break a room.”

The shape, size, colour, texture and position of any one light fitting and its relationship to other elements in a room all need careful consideration when planning the design of any room in the

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