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Sabtu, 16 Juni 2012

Authentic Nautic collection by the Belgian lighting company Tekna

In my series of interior and architectural design related Belgian companies, I’d love to introduce you to our Belgian lighting company TEKNA, one of my favorite sources for beautiful lighting.

Their Nautic collection presents authentic light fittings, made out of pure materials such as bronze, copper, cast iron and brass.

It is a collection of lighting fixtures with ancient forms with a timeless character, at the same time modified for contemporary use, all made by craftsmen.

Inspiration for the Nautic collection was found in old trains and ships.

‘Nautic's mains objective is to be there without wanting to be seen, not to be pushy, but honest, not striking, but stylish. In short, as pure as the poetic sense of light.’, is to read on the TEKNA website.

The following images show you some of my favorite Nautic lighting fixtures.

Essex wall light

Quay wall light

Ilford hanging light

Annet wall light

Montrose hanging wall light

Spreaderlight wall light

Hellman wall light

Annet wall light

Portreath hanging light

Annet mesh wall light

Lilley spot

Butterfield table lamp

The above lighting fixtures are available in several finishes.

There is so much more to discover on the TEKNA website.

To see the entire NAUTIC COLLECTION, please click on logo on image below.

TEKNA

Industriepark E17/3205
Stokkelaar 5
9160 Lokeren

BELGIUM

sales@tekna.be

www.tekna.be

I wish you all a wonderful weekend!

Greet

All images : website Tekna : http://www.tekna.be

Senin, 21 November 2011

Girandoles and my friend’s new webshop

Now that Christmas time is coming our way, it's always nice to illuminate your home with beautiful lighting.

At this moment I am thinking about which lighting to use as Christmas decoration.

I came across some beautiful images of girandoles.

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A ‘girandole’ (French) is an ornamental branched candlestick often composed of several lights. Girandoles came into use in the second half of the 17th century, and ware commonly made and used in pairs. A girandole has always been a luxurious appliance for lighting and in the 18th century, the French ciseleurs designed the most beautiful examples.Girandoles can be made of metals or wood. For table use is silver the favorite material.

011 Image source : Richard Goullet Décoration

Image source : Linda Chase Associates

Image source : Augustus Brandt Antiques

Image source : Alhambra Antiques

Image source : Laurence Helmer et Maison James via Proantic

To my opinion a girandole is one of the most appropriate types of Christmas lighting. Don’t you agree?

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Talking about lighting, I would love to introduce you today to the brand new webshop of my friend Natalie Haegeman of Natalie Haegeman Interiors.

Image source : Natalie Haegeman Interiors

Most of you do know yet that Natalie is a Belgian interior designer and that besides her job as interior designer, Natalie is specialized in custommade and handmade lampshades, using the finest fabrics.

By reading my earlier posts about Natalie’s work here and here, a lot of my readers asked me where to find these kind of lamps and lampshades in their neighborhoods. I knew that Natalie was working hard on a webshop, intending to offer her creations online.

I am very pleased to announce you that Natalie’s webstore is finally online now!!!

Beside lamps and lampshades, you will even find beautiful ideas for all of your Christmas gifts!

Click on the image below to enter Natalie’s online store.

A sneak peak of Natalie’s online store. All items shown in this mosaic are available at www.nataliehaegeman.com.

You will always find back the link to Natalie’s online store at the side bar of my blog :

So you would do me a favor to visit Natalie’s online store and to come back to tell me your thoughts about it!

And if you are asking me if my blog is sponsored by any of the mentionned companies on my blog : NO!!

I do not have the intention to make of my blog a sponsored blog, a blog that is not really mine! I do prefer being free to post about or to mention people who are, in my opininon, worth talking about.

I wish my friend Natalie lots of success with her brand new online store and I wish everyone of you a nice start of this new week and a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Rabu, 02 November 2011

Beautiful finds

I would love to share with you today some new finds I really love.

As this beautiful wall lamp, X-form, made by a master-blacksmith, I found at EMPEL COLLECTIONS.

image source : http://www.empelcollections.com/

The Empel Collections wall lamp used in a project of Ruys Interiors.image source : http://www.ruys-zeist.com/

Antler wall lamp at DAVID HUNT LIGHTING.

image source : http://davidhunt-lighting.com/

This gorgeous French styled bench at JULIETTES INTERIORS.

image source : http://www.juliettesinteriors.co.uk/

Detail of the bench.

image source : http://www.juliettesinteriors.co.uk/

Or this beautiful French LXV-styled bed headboard also at JULIETTES INTERIORS.

image source : http://www.juliettesinteriors.co.uk/

Detail of the board.

image source : http://www.juliettesinteriors.co.uk/

The checkerboard patterned chest at MOISSONNIER.

image source : http://www.moissonnier.com/

And of course a few Belgian finds!

This beautiful sconce with handmade shades at NATALIE HAEGEMAN INTERIORS.

image source : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Natalie-Haegeman-Interiors/153228454723424

Natalie is specialized in handmade lamps and shades! She will start her webshop soon! This will able us to order the most beautiful lamps and custom made shades!

image source : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Natalie-Haegeman-Interiors/153228454723424

For a preview of Natalie’s collection, please follow her at Facebook HERE .

To read my earlier posts about Natalie Haegeman Interiors, go here and here.

CAROO ZELLIGE shop in Brussels.

A wonderful shop were you can find the most extented collection of the Moroccan Zellige tiles!

It’s worth a visit!! Here.

image source : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Caroo-Zellige/174839792543537

And what do you think about this Belgian hand made, 4 m long monastere table ‘Pierre’, found at MALVINI FURNITURE FACTORY.

image source : http://malvini.blogspot.com/

Detail of the table.

image source : http://malvini.blogspot.com/

And I am very pleased to announce you a new discovered beautiful Belgian blog, named THE STITCHING ROOM.

You will discover beautiful creations you can order online!

image source : http://thestitchingroombrasschaat.blogspot.com/

To visit this new discovered Belgian blog, click on logo.

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What are your thoughts about my new finds?! I would love to hear about it!

Selasa, 08 Maret 2011

Kitchen island lighting fixtures

Choosing the most suitable lighting fixture for your kitchen island isn’t always that evident. There is a lot of choice of different kinds of fixtures, as lanterns, glass and shades pendants, industrial pendants, chandeliers. Passed weekend I was searching for an island fixture to hang above the kitchen island of one of my clients and I realized that there are quite a lot of possibilities to add the most beautiful lighting into your kitchen. Depending of course of the design style of your kitchen. Either you have a rustic or industrial styled kitchen, a contemporary or a more traditional styled kitchen, you will always find that fixture that fits your style.

I posted some images of kitchen island fixtures to inspire you to make your best choice.

Enjoy!

Lanterns

Image source Erin Martin