Bring your living space to life with eye-catching new lighting designs from The Cotswold Company.

Their range of signature pieces complement any style, whether you’re enhancing a modern living space, or adding character with a more vintage feel:

• Choose striking floor lamps in wood or brass to liven up dull corners.
• Opt for elegant table lamps with blown-glass or metal bases.
• Set them off beautifully with silk-effect pleated shades, to add charm to your bedsides and sideboards.
• Add lustre and subtle sparkle with silken-string ceiling pendants, festooned with glass and acrylic hanging beads.
• Intricate cut-metal lamps and hand-blown hurricane lanterns, lend an exotic-edge and create a special ambience for your room.

Let there be light. Your choice is, which one?

Featured here are:

• Glass Spheres Lamp, £79, N310.
• Simplicity Chrome Lamp, £39.95, N316.
• Safi Table Lamp, £129, N322.
• Clear Bedside Lamp, £79, N311.
• Farmhouse Ivory 6 Drawer Chest, £299, 7827.

For further information on the new home lighting designs, visit The Cotswold Company website.

Tel:  (0844) 984 0003

The passing of the summer solstice sees a new range of outdoor and indoor lanterns and hurricane lamps – of all shapes, sizes and finishes – at the specialist home accessories online boutique Nordic House.

The traditional teak lanterns, with a contemporary look and a stainless steel top, are part of the Danish Designer Collection at Nordic House, while there are more than 30 hurricane lamps and lanterns to choose from within the Lanterns and Hurricanes range.

Materials and finishes include stainless steel, glass, whitewashed, distressed paint, wood, rattan, metal, rusty, ceramic, retro, classical and contemporary style.

• In our picture is the Retro Candle Lantern:
  These are a limited edition! - A.gorgeous retro style metal, pale taupe lantern with a chalky, painted finish.
  Sizes:
  Medium: H20×14x14cm.
  Large: H32×21x21cm.
• Recommended Candles:
  Large lantern: 8×12cm pillar candles - Medium lantern: Large tealights or the 6×12cm pillar candle.
  Priced at: £24.50 – Medium. £34.00 – Large.

Nordic House collections reflect the best of Scandinavian design and are strongly focused on natural elements and textures.

Collections are limited and constantly evolving as each season progresses.
Boxed gift vouchers are also available for those special gifts or treats.

Visit the Nordic House website to view the stunning new ranges of lanterns and hurricane lamps.

Tel:   (0844) 209 2027

Do you love curling up with a good book or spend hours doing needlework? Then the brand new High Vision Reading Lights from Lifemax, will allow you to view things in a whole new light for a whole lot longer:

• The specially designed lamps use near daylight, low flicker bulbs to enable longer concentration and help relieve eyestrain and headaches.
• Bringing near daylight into an indoor environment, the lamps provide better colour reproduction and glare free reading.
• The bulbs last longer too. The energy efficient bulbs last up to 8000 hours, with a 27 watt input and 150 watt output.
• Available in floor or table versions, the lamps feature a convenient flexible neck that can be easily adjusted to ensure that the light shines at the right height and direction. The lamps are ideal for reading, intricate hobbies and crafts.
• Floor Lamp: £55.00.
  Table Lamp: £45.00.

About Lifemax
The modern, older generation are hungry for products to make life easier, take care of their health and to have some fun and enjoyment. Lifemax is dedicated to the supply of such products.

Founded in 2003, the Company aimed to service the ‘baby boomers’ as they became the ‘nifty fifties’.

Through careful selection and innovation, people from all age groups now enjoy the products Lifemax offer.

Lifemax aims to provide the best possible products, at the best possible prices with a first class service for their customers.

Visit the Lifemax Direct website for more information about the High Vision reading lights.

Tel: (0118) 971 0075

Purple is fast emerging as the hottest trend for the coming season, and House Couturier have some beautiful pieces of Italian designed furniture, to help you add a touch of this purple opulence to your home this autumn.

Inspired by the elegance of nature, the curvaceous Butterfly sofa in our picture, has smooth, undulating lines and is adorned with Cupro silk embroidered decorations and luxurious Swarovski crystals:

• The regal purple butterflies and sumptuous floral embroideries are enhanced by the subtle nuances of the light gold silk upholstery, and the frame is available in gilded gold, gilded silver, light oak, lacquered black or white.

The Violet Lighting Range offers a stunning selection of modern crystal chandeliers, which will add a touch of magic to your home:

• The Swarovski crystals transform pure light into an enchanting array of rainbow reflections, while the handmade silk shades soften and diffuse the light. The range includes floor standing lamps, ornate hanging chandeliers, single and multiple shade wall lights and table lamps.

Butterfly Sofa.
Dimensions: W 240cm x D 95cm x H 88cm.
Priced from: £8750 plus vat, includes cushions.

Lilac Chandelier.
Floor standing lamp from £4200 plus vat.
Hanging chandelier from £1295 plus vat.
Table lamp from £950 plus vat.
Wall light from £1600 plus vat.

Visit the House Couturier website for more information on
the Butterfly Sofa and the Violet Lighting range.

Tel: (0207) 371 9255.

Did you know that 66% of all candle sales happen in the 2nd half of the year?

This is because the autumn is naturally when we want to make our homes cosy and warm after a summer of outdoor activities and entertaining.

This is best achieved by lighting a Yankee Candle®, famous for their long lasting and true to life fragrances.

The NEW autumn fragrance collection contains natural extracts and delivers the sweet richness and spicy warmth of the season and will make any home feel comfortable and inviting:

• Creamy Caramels aroma of melt-in-your-mouth, sugar and gooey lusciousness will instantly appeal to those with penchant for buttery rich vanilla caramel!
• For those looking to escape reality will adore the fantasy fragrance of Mountain Lodge™. A luxurious retreat in front of a cosy hearth, with the warm aroma of cedarwood and sage will instantly lift spirits dampened by dark evenings.
• A classic autumnal treat comes in the form of Apple Cider. The welcoming hot-cider scent spiced with cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg is perfect for fragrancing homes this autumn.
• Sandalwood Vanilla offers pure indulgence and will elevate any bad mood bought on by summertime blues. Luxurious warmth of fine aromatic sandalwood and rich comforting vanilla will fill homes with a lasting fragrance that can only come from Yankee Candle®.
• To add a touch of colour to any room this autumn, look no further than Spiced Orange. This bright and cheery blend of sunny citrus and snappy ginger is the perfect winter warmer.

For further information on the Yankee Candle® collections visit their website shop.

Louise Campbell’s pendant light Collage now has a little sister - Collage 450. The large version changes its name to Collage 600.

The new size is fine-tuned to maintain balance and harmony and Collage 450 is perfect on its own or suspended in repetition in indoor environments.

Collage 450 is not merely a smaller version of Collage 600; it is a newly designed version, having in many ways been optimised, so that, for instance, mounting is easier.

Collage 450 is suitable for energy-saving lamps and also available in a professional version with a HIT light source.

It is available in the same colours as Collage 600: Snow White (white), Hot Lips (pink), Juicy Orange (orange), Lemon Yellow (yellow) and finally Smoke Screen (smoke-coloured).

Concept
The Collage Pendant creates atmosphere and is at the same time changeable. The pattern which is staggered on the shades made out of three layers of acrylic gives the fixture an almost endless row of combinations of patterns.

New experiences are made when shades and light come alive and changeable through the patterns. The refraction of the light is controlled - and yet still uncontrolled.

Collage 450 pendant retails at £575.00 in white and £625.00 in colours.

Collage 600 pendant retails at £745.00 in white and £845.00 in colours.

Louise Campbell is probably the Danish designer with the greatest range. Her long cooperation with Louis Poulsen has earned her international recognition as a lighting designer.

Louise Campbell graduated as an industrial designer from the Danish Design School. She is known for her furniture, lighting fixtures, porcelain designs and interior design.

Louise Campbell was chosen designer of the year in 2005 by the magazine Bo Bedre.

For more information please visit the Louis Poulsen website.

Interiors are continuing their love affair with prints for the new season.

House Couturier’s stunning toile du jouy prints on wallpaper, fabric and lamps are a stylish way of incorporating the trend into your home.

The stunning new range of Toile du Jouy printed wallpapers, are available in classic black and cream, or for a softer look choose from cornflower blue (pictured here), pale lime or pastel pink.

House Couturier’s Toile du Jouy wallpapers and lamps add a touch of French style to your home and with a selection of modern pastel colours or vibrant brights will work in most interiors for an on-trend look.

Toile de Jouy is a type of decorating pattern consisting of a usually white or off-white background, on which a repeated pattern depicting a fairly complex scene, generally of a pastoral theme.

House Couturier’s Jardin Toile Wallpaper is perfect for a feature wall and is developed from an antique French Toile print:

• The Wallpaper is available in 10 colours.High quality, 180gsm wallpaper with a smooth, matt print surface and non-woven backing (paste-the-wall).

• Wallpaper: Double rolls (10.40 sq mtr) @ 10 metres x 52cm per roll.

• Pattern repeat - 104 cm W x 63 cm H.

• Prices: £159.00 per single roll; £245.00 per double roll.

Lamps available as table and standing versions (bases available in several colours). Priced from £495.00 each.

Visit the House Couturier website to view the ranges.

Tel: (0207) 371 9255

Looking for an alternative to tea-lights and lanterns for that Summer soiree?

With a little imagination (and an extension cable) you can create a glowing reception with string of lights from Cable & Cotton!

Perfect for dining al-fresco, evening drinks or even to bring that extra special something to the wedding table.

The bright colours make for eye-catching décor for practically any corner of the house; even when left unlit, their soft glow will spread light and create ambience, so you can really enjoy those long Summer nights outdoors.

The Cable and Cotton team (Bryn and Zoe) thought that during the recession would be a good time to introduce something bright, simple, unique and affordable into peoples’ lives; the handmade, cotton ball mini-lampshades, which they sourced from Thailand were just brilliant.

Scouring the pantone chart for the best range of colours possible, Bryn and Zoe then set about asking the people of a small Thai village to make the cotton balls for them in these 35 different shades.

The idea was for people to be able to choose their own colour combinations to match their living rooms, bedrooms and even their favourite football team - so the simple but beautiful string lights were born!

The ‘Cotton’ Part of the product is a hollow ball shape (a little smaller than a tennis ball) with a hole for inserting the light bulb into. It is made of natural cotton, which is hand-dyed and shaped, using natural gum to make it firm.

The ‘Cable’ part of the product is a transparent string of lights with transparent plug in either:

20 bulb (total length 5.75m) or 35 bulb (total length 8m).

The cable and lights are CE safety approved and the plug BSI safety approved. Replacement bulbs – are provided.

Cable & Cotton stringed lighting prices:
£20 (20 bulb)
£30 (35 bulb)
£39 (50 bulb)

For further information visit the Cable & Cotton website.

Tel: (07866) 423113

Nordic House has selected the very best on offer from the land of the midnight sun, choosing limited-edition contemporary artefacts from well-known Danish designers, adding a stunning array of outdoor lighting, wall sconces, lanterns and hurricane lamps.

While the summer solstice is celebrated all over the world, it is particularly important in Nordic countries where, on the longest day, the sun dips below the horizon for only a short while and the sky never properly turns to night.

These long summer days and long dusky evenings are the time for contemplation, a time to recharge the batteries and relax outdoors.

The unique huge handmade outdoor candles, as feartured here, look wonderful bunched together as a mixed-height group. They come in black as well as white and there are six sizes in this outdoor only range. The largest candle is 50cm high and it will burn for 280 hours.

These superb large outdoor candles are hand made in Sweden and are for outdoor use only; they look absolutely stunning dotted around the garden or patio.

Colours: White or Black sizes from:

15×10cm burns approx. 60hrs weight: 1.5 kg - £10.00 - to

15×80cm burns approx. 450hrs weight: 12 kg - £66.50.

The Danish Designer Collection, speaks of natural textures of sculpted slate, stone and wood, as well as burnished and glowing metals used to create oil lamps for long term outdoor use.

All of the new lamps house a unique air system to ensure the proper burning of the oil wick, while a little purpose-made lid can be used to extinguish the flame safely and protect the wick from the elements, as these stunning lamps can be left outside all summer.

The complete new collections can be seen online at the Nordic House website They will be limited and constantly evolving as the season progresses.

Tel: (01872) 870834

The creative potential of good lighting cannot be overestimated, particularly in the darker winter months.

Effective, efficient lighting has the power to transform your home, defining and improving perception of space, highlighting design schemes and creating atmosphere and interest.

“Always use a good mixture of ambient, task and accent lighting and if possible consider your scheme at planning stages to maximise opportunities” comments Peter Bowles, founder and designer, Original BTC.

Use wall rather than table lights in small bedrooms to avoid cluttered surfaces

Hang pendants low over dining tables or sofas to create dramatic or intimate seating ‘zones’.

Lights that can be moved, adjusted or angled can effectively control direction or spread of light.

Clip-on lamps are an immediate solution to help illuminate favourite areas or supplement natural light.

Consider materials and function –bone china gives a gentle, ambient glow, prismatic glass exaggerates and intensifies light, while aluminium or other metals bring a more industrial flavour and greater visual impact.

Whether you’re working or reading, a good desk light is essential to help prevent eye strain.
Flexible arms are key for effective positioning, but aesthetics also play a huge part; make sure you choose something you really love as it will encourage you to stay at your desk longer!

Featured here is The Stanley Range:

• Hand-spun in Birmingham, the Stanley pendant is offered in solid brass, solid copper or solid brass nickel plated.

• Available in a hammered or smooth, reflective finish; group together for dramatic effect or mix metals for a laid-back, eclectic look.

Established in 1990, Original BTC manufactures relaxed, familiar lighting for traditional and contemporary homes.
Hand-assembled in Oxford from the finest aluminium, chrome and bone china, this essential collection of table, floor, wall and pendant lights is instantly comfortable, unassumingly elegant and accessibly priced.

For further home lighting inspiration visit the Original BTC website.
Tel: (01993) 882251