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Collect Lighting by Ferm Living

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It’s possible we have all become very spoilt these days. One of the things the internet has done is make it easier for small designer makers to get their stuff out in front of potential clients. This is, of course, utterly brilliant for both them and us. This has led, in turn, to many manufacturers, who make to order, being able to tweak designs to suit the client. Also brilliant.

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It means, however, that we have become used to a HUGE amount of choice and, writing as someone whose husband is paralysed by more than four choices on a menu, that can make life difficult. I mean  clearly choice is great. But it can slow down the decision-making process can’t it?

Take these lamps below. This is a perfect example. The new Collect Lighting from Ferm Living allows you to choose between 12 different sockets – long or short and then shades of blue and grey as well as black, rose, rose pink and brass.

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Then you need to decide on the lampshade. Do you want small disc shade, or a wider flatter record shade (pale grey and black in the image above). Or perhaps you want a cone? Or a dome?

Then there are the colours. Black or dark blue? Grey? Light or dark? Pink? Maybe plain brass?

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See what I mean. I love these lights and its wonderful that we can have exactly what we want for our homes. But the question is -what exactly do we want? Because the choices are huge.

I’m going to go for a long black socket and a brass disc shade. I thought I was being original but now I scroll back up I see it’s second from the right on the image. And now that I’ve seen that I want the pink and grey cone next to it.

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Decisions decisions. You know how this would work really well? As a group of three over and island or a table. That way you can have three that are recognisably from the same collection but you get to mix up the shapes and colours. Brilliant. Now we’ve got three decisions to make instead of one…

Kate Watson-Smyth

The author Kate Watson-Smyth

I’m a journalist who writes about interiors mainly for The Financial Times but I have also written regularly for The Independent and The Daily Mail. My house has been in Living Etc, HeartHome and featured in The Wall Street Journal & Corriere della Sera. I also run an interior styling consultancy Mad About Your House. Welcome to my Mad House.

3 Comments

  1. i love these lights and the ideas are great. just to be difficult, any idea who made the pitcher/pottery in the first picture? gorgeous.

  2. Ha ha! Good post! Info plus humour and a bit of philosophy…

    But for the ignoramus, you could have explained the what and the why of different sockets.

    1. The socket is the part that holds the bulb – cable at one end, bulb the other. You can see on the pictures – some are long and some are short – attached to the flex – that bit!

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