8 guides written from our own product data: choosing a colour temperature, what a lamp base costs you over ten years, specifying a hotel project, working with natural stone, briefing a factory for custom work, packing and shipping, layered lighting design, and how to read a specification sheet.
Almost every fixture in this catalogue is offered at three colour temperatures on one item number. That makes colour temperature a decision you have to make at the order stage, and it is the decision buyers most often get wrong.
The lamp base is the least glamorous line on a specification and the one that determines whether a failed light is a two-minute job or a scaffold booking. Here is what each base in this catalogue is for.
Hospitality lighting is judged on how it looks at handover and lived with for a decade. Five decisions at the specification stage determine which of those two experiences you get.
Travertine, alabaster and marble shades are quarried, so no two are identical. Here is how to specify a matched set, what variation to accept, and where the real risks are.
Most custom lighting quotations are wrong because the brief was incomplete. Six pieces of information turn a vague enquiry into a price you can rely on.
Glass, crystal and stone are most of this catalogue, and they break in transit for reasons that have nothing to do with the freight forwarder. Packaging engineering is the whole answer.
Rooms fail on lighting because they have one layer. The fix is ambient, task, accent and decorative working together, and it is a drawing decision rather than a shopping decision.
Every product page on this site publishes the same specification fields. Here is what each one changes, and which ones a buyer can safely skim.
We do, from the specifications of the products we actually make. Every figure quoted comes from a product page on this site or from our own published company information, so any claim can be checked against its source.
Because a buyer who knows where the data stops can ask the right question. A guide that fills every gap with a plausible number is worse than useless.
Ask us first and in most cases yes, particularly if you are reselling products we make. We would rather your catalogue was accurate than original.
The product page wins, because it is generated directly from our product data. Tell us where the contradiction is and we will correct the guide.
Describe the room, the ceiling height and the look you are after, and we will name item numbers.
