The reality is that rooms are designed according to the tasks for which they are intended. A bedroom is designed for sleeping, snuggling, reading, etc. The dining room is designed for eating and entertaining. The living room is for reading, relaxing, watching television, and so on. Add open floor plans and dual-purpose spaces to the mix, and there are a myriad of possible tasks to be accomplished in each space.
All of this is to say, task lighting can be used anywhere, for any task. These flexible, articulating wonders can stand on the floor, set on a table, attach to a wall or hang from the ceiling. They can be understated and elegant, industrial and love-worn, clever and colorful, outlandish and oversized. Today’s task lighting has come into its own — moving beyond practical, institutionalized necessity and into the realm of dynamic, dramatic statement piece.
Images: 1. From the Right Bank 2,4, 14. Roseland Greene 3. Interior Design 5. emmas designblogg 6, 7. The Designer Pad 8. Elle Interior 9. Automatism 10. Apartment Therapy 11. Dwell 12. Marie Claire Maison 13. sfgirlbybay 15. Lonny
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I think I need that blue clip-on for my office. I might have to trade-up sometime soon. Don't tell my boring silver Walmart lamp. We've had a long and boring relationship.
Where are those gray chairs from in the first picture? Beautiful!
Hi AT editors and readers, does anyone have practical and stylish solutions for managing long cords that have to reach from a center arrangement to the outlets in an open room plan? I don't have small children or chewy-bitey pets but it's something I am struggling with and have had little success.
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The grat majority of these shown are ghastly expensive. The Serge Mouille lamp is like 4 or 5 grand! Not that I am complaining...but they also are not really all task lamps. At most they are 'directional' lights. And I think that the two chairs int he first picture are by Borge Mogensen.
Wish there were links/descriptions for the lamps in each picture. Specifically interested in #15, but the Lonny website doesn't have much information.
Hi all-
This post is meant to be task lighting 'eye candy'. :) (It originally had "inspiration" in the title, but that was changed at the last minute). It's part of our 'spotlight on task lighting' week here on AT, and there will be more great posts coming up with specific product buying info. That said, @rhinoceros2, here's where you can by the lamp in #15 - https://www.northernicon.com/p-487-studioilse-w084.aspx (I just happened to have it bookmarked. :)
Does anyone know where I can buy the lighting fixture in photo #3? I have concrete ceilings and am looking for a fixture that can give light to our dining area. Thanks!