good for selling industrial grade lighting

The feeling these photos give me is very ick. I do sort of like the second picture, maybe because it reminds me of Harry Potter.

Yes, I love this and have a lot of black or dark furniture. In this sort of interior, silver, gold or blue objects shine forth in a particularly attractive way. I find the dark environment so comforting.

I love it - Uber-Sexy.

I think their mainly just doing neutral designs; just using a darker neutral color. This forces the eye to look where they want it to.

My living room is medium gray (floors & walls) with one accent bronze/brown wall and the furniture is medium gray with a slight brown cast. Furniture ranges from mid to dark brown. Trimwork is medium brown.

It works for me because I have a huge picture window on one side (with a beautiful back yard view), a skylight, mirrors reflecting more light and the bronze wall on the opposite side has a large floor to ceiling white fireplace surround. The bronze wall is not a large wall. And I have lots of different kinds of room lighting. My goal was to make the place cozy and let my large artwork pop against the neutral setting.

I can also really control where my gaze goes because of neutral backdrop. I stumbled on this all by accident but I'm really intriqued by the way you can design rooms with color and light to direct where your eye looks.

My mom offered me turquoise soap dishes for my light turquoise bathroom. The counters are all white so I thought "Do I want my eyes to look at the soap dishes or would I rather they fade into the background? So I went with white soap dishes with white soap. When you first go in, my eyes don't register the soap dishes; it just looks like I've got a big open countertop.

I'm more into bright and airy design... but these are so cool!

My husband would probably dig a lot of these.

I don't see Eric Northman in any of these. That's just wrong.

It's very nice and gives a sense of luxury, but I wouldn't live in such a place, I'd be claustrophobic.

In Northern Europe, Black is always dark and lovely, with the clouds and the shorter days, but then the DUST.
Also realistically controlling the items with screaming COLOR that are part and parcel of "modern life".

It seems to me that these photos were taken in the wrong light. The light is too stark giving these environments a stark quality.

Black on black is more easily adaptable when it is lush and textured, just like all-white rooms. Glosses, mattes, weaves, lacquers, beads, carvings, velvets, tweeds, wood grains, and tactile curiosities of all sorts are needed to lend richness to the rooms.

"...it would feel like living in a hole in the ground with no light." - msmerlin

see, and I like that! I don't like all these stark-white rooms. They look so cold!

a single room like that is cool; not the entire apt.
i colorful detail on some of these would be fantastic!

I would want just to leave some of these rooms quickly to avoid falling asleep. They're not ugly as much as energy-draining.