Review of the lamp market: large manufacturers and small family firms. Produced collections used materials, approximate prices.
Nality, and High Tech added bright colors and sponge instead of lampshar
chandeliers from mountain crystal, candelabras
from gilded bronze and huge tremor
Over marble fireplace.
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Light, winning the darkness and expelled with her human fears, concludes something magical. For mastering the light, the man attracted a twig, resin, oil, wax, fat, kerosene, gas, and, finally, electricity. The simplest lighting devices can be seen in the rocky painting, and torches, discs, vessels with hot coal, bevelled or impregnated with fatty wood chips are still described in Homer. Later, progress gave a man with more strengths and clean sources of light, and creative inspiration gave rise to peculiar forms of lighting devices.
With a dwelling of a particular set of lamps, people either seek to associate interiors into a single harmonious ensemble, or intend to give each room a kind of appearance. Accordingly, when choosing the lighting devices, it makes sense to determine the specifics of the collections of the firms of interest to you. After all, designers are calculated in advance different options for the stylistic and functional combination of devices in the interior.
In the Russian market, many companies are presented, each of which occupies its niche. Designs and technologies, the purpose of the manufactured devices, the materials, design and stylistics used, the degree of productivity, etc. can be peculiar. As a rule, the saturation of the space lamps from one collection is doomed to good luck. Today, today the products of each serious, self-respecting company are noted today.
The man was looking for fire more and more bright, but at the same time and more secure. Therefore, it is natural that oil lamps spread in Egypt, and later in Greece. They were stone pillars or bowls inside which a vessel was placed with a phytel. In the III century. BC e. In Europe, a lamp model came to Europe in the form of a small clay boat with a spout. In size, it was comparable to human palm. In i century In Rome, lamps made of bronze began to make lamps. Then the famous candelabra appeared. The base for them was cast in the form of a beast paw, and the stand was sometimes made in the form of Amur, satire or a female figure. This artistic idea has survived the century and flourishes to this day. Instead of smoking and throwing sparks of torches, which the servants carried before the owner of the dark street or strengthened in the wall holders, Roman artisans began to make oil bronze lights, round or polygonal. Their walls were closed by bone plates, leather or washesized cloth, and the convex cover with holes for smoke was supplied with a short chain.
In Rome and Byzantium, the bronze bowls for fire began to hang on the chains to the ceiling or pinned on the wall. I go now the lamps in the form of a crown with conical bowls are decorated with St. Sophia's Cathedral in Constantinople.
Ampir, Ar Deco, Bauhauses
The French family firm Luciengau works both in classic and in modern style. Lighting devices from the classic collection are named, respectively, "Victorian", "Flemish", "Ampir". It is not approximate of cases of cases, but accurate playback of historical style in all parts. Such accuracy helps to choose chandeliers or sconce for the interior corresponding to a certain era, without fear that they will "fall out" from the situation. The company applies the technique of hand casting bronze. Sand forms are used, which, after the manufacture of the lamp, are broken, so that all items of the classical collection exist in limited quantities.Swarovski Crystal (Austria) crystal is applied. Bronze products are covered with gilding or sketching. You can change the standard model to order. For example, to increase the number of chandeliers, instead of using chains and vice versa. Locks of modern design are of particular interest to lamps in the style of Bauhauses and Ardco. Dear lamps are rarely used expensive and complex technologies, materials there are simple: metal (chrome or silver), glass, plastic.
Not everyone knows than the candelabra differs from the candlesticks. Kandelabra are outdoor or desktop, they are distinguished by impressive sizes and plenty of horn for candles. Candlestick-compact desktop stand for candles (from1 to 15).
A variation of Kandelabra CXVIIIV. Steel Zhilandoli, reminiscent of small trees. On their metal rods and brackets sparkled pendants from crystal, among which the porcelain figures of people and animals were visible, baskets with fruit and flowers. Round Zhilandoli was installed on a special table, semicircular - on the fireplace, and, as a rule, pairs.
The classic collection is mainly suitable for rooms with high ceilings, since the chandeliers are large enough in size. However, if necessary, it is worth learn from the seller if the smaller models of interest are missing you. As for the modern collection, its models will fit into any apartment. You can choose the device and for the bathroom - some lamps are manufactured in the thermal radiation version. Prices for chandeliers of classic design oscillate from $ 500 to $ 700, modern - from $ 150 to $ 350.
Prababookushina chandelier
If you dream to resurrect the Lastra's long-lost Lastra, which remained only on the breakdown of photos from the family archive, then the Kalmar firm for you. Artists of this Austrian company are restored by antique sketches, photographs, paintings Lighting devices of past centuries. So, all the lighting devices of the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow were recreated by photographs and engravings. Avosopilized by sketch XIXV. Lastra managed to return to the Tretyakov Gallery, to the main staircase. For sure, such a chandelier decorated the gallery in the life of Pavel Mikhailovich. Works firm to order, but there is an opportunity to purchase and the finished "twin". Price? For example, desktop candelabra (huge marble vases with bronze horns) on sketches from the Greater Kremlin Palace are $ 200 pieces.
But the British firm Chelsom, oddly enough, does not produce lamps in English style, and offers products made in historical styles (destroyed classics to modern), and modern fantasies on these topics. The collection includes a complete set of lighting devices - from the chandelier to a table lamp. Crystal is used only Bohemian (he is cheaper than, for example, Svarovski). This affects the cost of products, but does not reduce their quality. The dimensions of the chandelier are different, you can pick up an instance for a small apartment or a luxurious country mansion. Even if the collection did not find a central chandelier of suitable size, you will definitely select lighting from other types of devices. The cost of the most expensive chandelier does not exceed $ 1,300, and the most expensive table lamp will cost $ 300.
Gypsum Bra
The French company Atelier Sedap actually specializes in plaster stucco, but recently makes "gifts" designers, made of plaster and lighting devices. The collection of the company mainly consists of a variety of brain. Lamps are produced only in white color, which allows designers and artists to paint or tint them in any shade, as well as to paint with the stylistic features of the interior. Special additives in the form of a resin make gypsum shockproof and heat-resistant, so you can not be afraid of its cracking. To care for these brains, too, they are simply allowed to wash and clean. Buyers will please the opportunity to create a game of light on the walls and ceilings, which was popular in the Epoch of Bauhaus. Moreover, some models repeat the famous 1930-hodry masterpieces. Sara is small in size (30-55cm), floor and ceiling lights can be different - from small (30cm height) to huge (220cm). The cost of wall luminaires ranges from $ 70 to $ 250, ceiling - from $ 150 to $ 600.Wall lamps with reflectors from a mirror or polished metal for the first time gained distribution in Italy. They reflected the light and at the same time decorated the walls. The attachment of such devices was carried out using twisted brackets. In France, this type of lighting device received the name "Bra" (BRA in French- support). The first sconces were simple oval shape (from30 to150cm), but over time they became more complicated and increasingly decorated. Nowadays, the lamps mounted on the wall are called differently. So, all the devices with the walls retreating from the wall or brackets are referred to as brackets; Sources of light, closed pressed to the wall with a screen - wall lamps; Apartment bowl or plander with a light-mounted luminaire. Approximately the same classification exists in ceiling lamps. Lush, parade, freely hanging lighting appliances are called "chandelier"; more simple are referred to as ceiling outboard luminaires; And the devices tightly fastened to the ceiling are called ceiling lamps.
Amber, porcelain and alabaster
Vaughan (United Kingdom), unlike those listed above, pays attention to the stylistic unity of the entire interior. I exported "to the designer" furniture, fabrics and accessories to become your lamps.
Most of the collection make up table lamps. These are either vase models in the style of the Queen Victoria, either candlesticks-columns with lampshade. The glass stands are common (vertical racks on which horns with lamps or lamp itself are attached). Brass and bronze are patched, covered with gold or silver. Abuirs are made of both paper and cardboard and fabrics, ranging from low-cost cotton and ending with silk and skin. Vases are made from porcelain and faience with various décor (Vtyale Victorian and Georgian England), as well as solid wood (lacquered or naturally left). There are natural rocks (marble, granite) and alabaster (marble, granite) and alabaster, and in the most original models, the alabaster is combined with amber.
The base of the lamp and the lamp can be varied by selecting options for catalogs. So every buyer is able to create a unique, existing lighting device in a single instance.
Callogs will find models for almost all rooms - from the bedroom to the office. The exception will be, perhaps, only children's, since the materials of which make these lamps require accurate circulation. The cost of lamps is from $ 150 to $ 5000, depending on the size and complexity of the decor.
For "noble nests"
The lamps of the British company HYDE are especially popular in the representatives of Russian emigration and lovers of traditional interiors. Most of them are made according to samples from Russian tsarist palaces and estates. Despite this, the customer can contribute to the existing design. This also applies to the size of the product, and the number of horns, and even the decor. Hyde- firm is small and produces lighting devices in small batches. But their price is not particularly high. The company's technology is trying to automate as many stages of production. However, the final finish passes solely manually. Palace collections can unite not only the chandeliers of large sizes, but also their replicas in the reduced version. Prices from $ 150 to $ 1000.In France, crystal chandeliers as an element of house design nobility entered into a fashion in the era of Louisxiv. Since then, the French word "chandelier" (leather-shining, giving light) has taken place throughout Europe. At the same time, in different countries, the forms of suspended lighting devices were varied, the amount of candles, the richness of the decoration, the outlines of crystal suspension and even the methods of their cut. Vitaly Chandelier was decorated with a piece of crystal having the form of a sphere. Wiscorian England also had fashionable chandeliers with round pendants, only larger. The French loved large oval and minor octami pendants. Attace XiX. Drop-shaped pendants appeared, and in the era of modern, visible round or rectangular tubes, as well as cubes of crystal. B1909 Hector Hector Gimar patented a graceful variety of crystal chandelier. Thin vertical crystal sticks were mounted on the bronze rim, and the threads with crystal beads, felling or polished between them or behind them. The result was created the effect of a waterfall or fountain.
In its own way, engaged in historical stylization and Andy Thornton. The company manufactures everything that may be required to design a house in a certain style - from stairs, furniture and small accessories to elements of the outer decor. Of course, it can not get around the lighting devices. Collections are called regions and styles. The entire range is offered, from chandelier to small desktop lamps. Along with expensive materials, such as bronze, crystal, glass, alabaster, stone, and more simple plastic, inexpensive alloys. After all production has an industrial character, the quality of the devices is excellent. Using simple technologies significantly reduces their cost. It is curious that Andy Thornton is not a concern, but a small family firm. Quality control Here is the most picky, and the parties are limited to several hundred pieces. The folds are presented lamps of the widest stylistic spectrum, from the "ancients" to the Tiffany technique. There are also stylized street lights of all eras, as well as industrial lamps of the XIX-beginning XXV. Judget of the "ship" and "postal" lamps. Prices fluctuate from $ 70 to $ 2000.
In 1895, the American designer Luis-Comfort Tiffany began selling his famous bronze lamps under lamps from stained glass with images of plants and insects (we recall that at this time the modern style was dominated in Russia, in Europe, Arnouvo or Yighdistil, which, in fact, same). Xvin Frame The glass was glued with resins. Today, Tiffany followers scattered around the world. The original sketches of the beginning of the century use both the original sketches of the beginning of the century, and modern drawings in this style, and instead of expensive bronze and hazardous lead, an alloy of plastic and metal similar to patinated bronze is used.
For boats and yachts
Another direction of activity of Kalmar-Lighting devices for yachts and boats. Applied technologies in the manufacture of chandeliers and sconces with a special fastener make them not only works of art, but also by technical masterpieces. Special treatment does not allow crystal to bother with salted water, suspensions do not ring when rolling, and the artistic perception of the chandelier does not change even with a strong shy roll. For lamps are used the best traditional materials - bronze, brass, Crystal Swarovski, Porcelain (Maissen and Limoges), natural stone, Murano glass, Damasky silk. The masters have the opportunity to use and unique materials, from which the lamps of the past were made. The price depends on the order and applied materials. A small ceiling chandelier of crystal with gold-plated bronze can cost all $ 3000.
SWAROVSKI is the largest crystal supplier worldwide, all chandeliers. Invented a special cut of a crystal and a high content of lead in it gives pendants a diamond shine. Higher Crystal is called Strass and is used only in very expensive chandeliers. Even the smallest pendants have a special labeling, a kind of quality sign of Swarovski, and a certificate. The high cost of the suspension of this category is explained by the fully manual cut of each of them. Less expensive (but no less high-quality) Spectrum crystal is made by pressing faces. Leads in it less. Such technology creates special effects of the suspension look "aged". All firm products have a special coating that does not allow to accumulate on the surface of the crystal of dust and dirt. It provides a bright glow of suspensions and, of course, facilitates care for them. The shapes of the suspension are diverse, from faceted balls to petals, stars and drops.
Right with anvil
Family firm Robers (Germany) was famous for the forging of iron and cast iron. The stylistic basis for all models became Gothic and Romanics. Lamps are made both by sketches of company designers and to order. "Branded dish" - a corona-like chandelier with several bowls for lamps. Also kyuch the sconium of various models, but more often in the form of torches and torch holders. Dark metal, patina, chains. All this allows you to create a sensation of a medieval castle. Filling to lamps The company produces furniture from wrought iron. The dimensions of the subjects are not castle, but quite suitable for ordinary apartments with low ceilings. Although, of course, it is best to look at such chandeliers in a country house. Of course, each lamp is manually. Prices, depending on the size of the product, fluctuate within $ 150-700.In the XIII-XIV centuries. In the forge of Catalonia, a new technique for the manufacture of wrought iron lamps was originated. Spanish masters created a lightweight design from twisted iron rods, decorated at the ends with heavy buds and unfolded colors. "Lighting Masters" then was not yet, but sculptors, carvers, loafers, potters and furniture lamps also made lamps. This ancient approach is practiced to this day, when, for example, an architect or designer on furniture creates simply lighting devices.
Copper lamp and clay lamp
The venetian firm Siru (Nasostrov Murano) is engaged in the manufacture of small batches of traditional Italian street lamps (XV-XVII centuries) from bronze glass. All lights are created manually, with strict observance of old proportions. The only difference between copies from the original variation of the size and a more modern method of fastening. Glass-transparent or with color cobalt (blue). A gold foil is fitted in it. Oddly enough, an ordinary urban apartment has become an ideal space for such lamps. The cost of products fluctuates from $ 150 to $ 500.
On the same island of Murano, La Murrina firm in very limited quantities produces its collection of real Venetian chandeliers fully made of glass. Forms are modern, design changes from year to year. This allows you to follow the fashion without losing the tradition of manufacturing and the idea itself. The second collection of La Murrina includes lamps in the style of Bauhauses and small, but very interesting replicas of the ancient Roman oil lamps. These lighting devices are made of high quality glass with minimal use of metal. All the achievements of Murano island are shown all the achievements of Murano's island: cleanliness of glass, skilled aircraft, Millefyor, mosaic glass, milk glass. The chandeliers look better in the room where it is possible to see them from above (say, on the stairs of a country house). The cost of classic chandeliers of Lamurrina is $ 400-3000. The product from the modern collection will cost $ 100-700.
But lovers of antiquity and exotic should pay attention to the lamps of clay in Japanese, Romanesque and Gothic styles. They make masters from Fulligine.
In the era of the revival of artisans of Italy, France and Belgium distributed outdoor forged lamps in Europe. That were the ancestors of modern lands. Their thin quadrangular standing on the tripod was married by a three-tier crown of horizontal hoars that decrease up. Votychychi from the candelabra, these lamps did not have the horns-cups with spikes raised directly on these three hoops around the central spire.
Painted porcelain
Production rather unusual for Italy lamp-colored lamps in the style of Victorian England - the company is engaged in the company ITALAMP. This part of the collection of porcelain desktop lamps under lampshades, despite the English style, has an Italian "pronunciation" - painting in the style of traditional Italian majolica. The German mesh painting in the style of Maic Manufactures is also found. As for the chandelier of this manufacturer, their bronze details are covered with muted gilding, and it distinguishes italamp from colleagues manufacturing crystal chandeliers in French and German style. A pleasant offer for lovers of modern-ceiling and wall lamps in the "Prague style" (Czech modern) with a matted glass and a floral pattern.In general, if you need a lamp from porcelain or with elements of the porcelain, it is necessary to contact, first of all, to British firms. The tradition of the Victorian desktop lamp is still complied with many companies in Great Britain, including those listed above.
Glass apple and bronze rose
The famous and unique Florentine "floral style" is represented by the Italian company Passeri International, which we have chosen from several candidates for its sophistication and good taste, as well as the quality of work. Traditional forged bronze lamps, decorated with the same bronze flowers, leaves and, less often, fruit, produced by this manufacturer from 1961. Chandeliers and table lamps make up the basis of the company's collection. Ceiling, wall, floor lamps and sconces are also offered. Complete to the lighting devices, you can pick up a table or mirror in a bronze frame with a similar forged decor. The whole collection breathes the charm of the antiquity. This contributes to the mandatory patination of bronze, which is of different shades, from dark amber to almost black. Anyway, the tone still remains muffled. Elements of the collection will harmoniously fit into the design of an apartment or country house. The cost of lamps is from $ 150 to $ 1000.
Venetian "fruit baskets" from glass and metal are represented by the Italian company Tredici Design. This ideal style of the XVI utilities is embodied in chandeliers, sconce, wall lamps. The bronze frame of the frame is carried out in Florence under the leadership of the owner of the company Daniel Trenim, and fruits, leaves and flowers are blowing on the island of Murano. Still in the traditional antique temper design has developed its own, more modern style, in accordance with which small glass fruits and vegetables are fixed on the chandelier instead of crystal suspensions. The decoration of the decor is used and "waste" - hoods, resulting in glass mass from the master tube. Fruits and vegetables are then handed to manually: in the leaves, fruits and colors, bodies are engraved. Wonderful in these chandeliers are also the fact that with different lighting there is a different game of light. Therefore, even when the products are turned off, the products produce a strong artistic impression. For the city apartment, the chandelier of this company is ideal, because they do not require some particularly lush environment and fit perfectly into rooms with low ceilings. These chandeliers look more elegantly and sophisticated than classic crystal. Cost - from $ 200 to $ 2700.
The love of Italians to luxury in a special way manifested itself in the lamps created in Florence and on the island of Murano. The famous Florentine "floral style" grew out of rude Catalan wrought samples. Floral lamps were made of metal, various wrought flowers were strengthened on the horns. Metal painted, patted, golden. In Venice, on the island of Murano, there was a different style, "fruit baskets." This case on the metal frame was suspended or fruits made of glass. CXVIIIV Luminaires were decorated not only with glass, but also gearlounds of pearls. Perhaps it is from these products that have elegant glass and crystal chandeliers.
Razio, Naive, Irony ...
The list of firms engaged in the production of lamps in a modern style is huge, and it is impossible not to mention at least a few of them. For example, the company Artemide (Germany) is a German house design specializing in minimalism and high tech products. Her compatriot Inho Maurer produces a fashionable "exclusive light" in the style of pop art, and Tobias Grau, also a bright representative of High Tech styles and minimalism, creates super-modern models to imitate "hard" industrial lamps. Part of the collection of Zicoli (Germany) is a plight pop art, and a part of the functional Bauhauz. "Mad" technocratic design offers Tribal (Italy), creating lamps from car shock absorbers and other spare parts. The unexpected beauty of heavy transfusted massive glass surprise geometric lamps in the style of Bauhauses from Flaver (Italy). Its subtle manner and the Italian company Antonangeli. Its lamps are rational Bauhauses, refracted in Italian, plus a little easy-to-style High Tech style.Perfect simplicity of lamps created by the masters of the Bauhauz school, does not cease to worry and modern masters. After all, then the designers managed to find a compromise between functionality and beauty. Metal tubes, large sheets of glass, matte and transparent, chrome surfaces - all this is actively used in our day. The decoration of products made in the style of minimalism, the textures of the materials of the materials, iron, nickel, chromium, glass, leather, wood. Forms are emphasized by a laconic-rectangle, prism, cylinder, ball.
Copyright, Lucefan's subsidiary (Italy), works in the Pop Art style. Copyright makes the objects of mischievous, modern, ironizing over all classic. These lamps are reminded all the time, but it is impossible to say that we have a fake. Rather, it can be about today's rethinking of the past of the past. Materials are used modern nickel, chrome, glass, plastic. Luminaires are designed for zonal lighting, since low power lamps are used. All models are manufactured in small batches. Price - from $ 250 to $ 500.
But Sothis (Italy) in its lighting devices successfully combines both High Tech, and minimalism, and the spirit of the same Bauhaus. The winner of the Frankfurt Design Exhibition, the company produces bold lamps for bold people. The possibility of using lamps is a large power is another feature of this product. The monolithic glass is white, blue, black and gray, all overnight perforated metal produces an unforgettable impression. It is enhanced by the originality of the forms resembling space ships and "Stealth" fighters. Of course, picking up such a lamp for an apartment or at home, you need to think very seriously how it will fit into the room. Price - from $ 200 to $ 1500.
Clicking the switch ...
Nowadays, perhaps, no longer find a lighting device, which would not repeat a well-known image or would not be a variation on a familiar theme. Apacks Modern devices are made in various styles, among this variety, there will definitely be the one that will fit into the specified interior. So to create a solid image of space, it remains only to choose the desired lighting device.
By design and purpose, the lamp may be a source of either the central or zonal light. Zonal lamps are equipped with low power lamps, and sometimes combine several lamps in a particular layout. A collection of collections can be found lighting equipment for both high-power lamps and energy-saving sources. The size and power of the lamps in the set of lamps from one collection can vary. Of course, most often the instruments are designed for a standard lamp in the cartridge, but there are models for minions, finger lamps, and in the super-modern collections, adapted for xenon, argon sources and daylight lamps.
Different sources provide lighting, differing in color, tone and strength. Therefore, when buying, devices must be lit, at the same time "including" and their imagination - to imagine how the lamp will look like in your interior. After all, the effect produced by the lamp in the store may differ completely from the one that will arise in the apartment. It depends on the height and size of the room, the general illumination, the colors of the walls and the ceiling, furniture, curtains, carpets. Even in small rooms, the lamps look better in the kit. Films of point ceiling halogen lamps can be stylistically "supported by" lamps in the mirrors and in niches. Table lamp will complement the flooring in the same style. The chandeliers look better than the "attachment" with scaves and hidden illumination. Here we approach another important problem - creating a holistic apartment lighting system. But this is a completely different story ...
Editorial Thanks Desrt Studio, gallery Hall Oscar, Decart, Old England, Salons English Interiors, "Gallery of the Interior", "Routes", Company "Skol", Frach, Shop "Lamps Nam.Ordinka", Kalmar (Austria), Italamp (Italy), robers (Germany) for help in the preparation of material.