Fab Lighting Concept...

Forget floating tea lights for an effect across your night time glass-like pool, yesterday I came across this amazing contemporary [wireless] lighting concept in 'Metropolitan Home' magazine of Hector Serrano’s rotation-molded polyethylene Waterproof Floating Lantern charges upside-down and out of water during the day, the design was for Serrano's client: Metalarte, and has since won the Nachlux Award. Once they are charged, you can set them afloat in the pool, where they will right themselves and begin to glow. Now I just need the pool and these fab lights en-masse...

For more details visit YLighting.com. Photo Credit: Courtesy of YLighting / Metropolitan Home

Warmth from Contemporary Wall Art

John-Richard 'Blocks' Abstract art
John-Richard 'Sunrise' Oil

John-Richard 'Red Sky' art

So much warmth & individuality can come from a piece[s] of art [work] such as shown in these images - pieces by John-Richard for Horchow. I especially love art styles of abstract expressionists in landscape and conceptualist works. But most importantly an art work when considering placement in a room - aside from appreciation and sheer love for it - be it [graphic or advertisement] print, oil, acyclic, mixed media, collage, or even a framed favourite piece of printed paper, fabric or tea towel, can act as a colour vehicle to tie other separate hues together in a room or space - thus creating a more unified colour scheme & style.

Images courtesy of Horchow, John-Richard