Ceramic lights from £12
Luna Lighting, makers of hand crafted ceramic lights, has moved into a new studio in the heart of Bloomsbury in central London, joining Cockpit Arts – the UK’s only creative business incubator for designer-makers – so expect lots of new designs and renewed energy in the coming year!
Luna Lights have evolved out of a personal search to fuse the cool clean lines of modern design with a need for warmth and sparkle.
Designer maker Anna Perring explains it as a balancing act between the head and the heart: ‘My head wants a clutter free clear space to think in, my heart wants something softer and more fanciful and so the aim was to create unique ceramic lights for the design-aware individual. We want our lights to be uplifting and aim to make people smile. The patterns of light they scatter across a room have the quality of fairy lights (that I could never bear to take down after Christmas) and fireflies, seen for the first time in Italy a few years ago and which were a magical kick-start to this lighting project.’ Casting glitterball light patterns, each light adds a special atmosphere to any indoor space and unlike most other lights they can also be adapted for use outdoors as they are stoneware fired and frostproof.
Anna has spent much of 2008 developing her range of fine porcelain tea lights – all handmade, tactile treasures that are highly collectable and make lovely unusual gifts.