We talked to the experts to consult them on current lighting trends at Interior Design Show West. Featuring Kelly Deck of Kelly Deck Design, Arren Williams the Creative Director of Home Fashions at Hudson's Bay Company and Anwar Mekhayech of The Design Agency.
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Lighting is very important, so we break it down into two standards. There’s standard lighting that’s general lighting where you need for the room to lightly wash the walls and there’s accent lighting. I think there’s that resurgence to that old world, almost nautical, industrial, cape-cod meets Brooklyn, going back to that reclaim lantern, burnish steels. There’s a lot of custom lighting company and they’re really fun to work with. I’m finding that people are not necessarily just buying the lights, they’re hunting for them, buying re-salvaged stuff or evening designing their own. It’s become so much more of a fun product to design and a feature piece and a focal point.
[Anwar Mekhayech of The Design Agency]
When people buy lighting for their home they want those pieces to look sculptural and look interesting and to kind of stand out. They don’t want pieces that look like the kind of thing that everyone else is going to have in their homes.
[Arren Williams the Creative Director of Home Fashions at Hudson’s Bay Company]
I think we’re moving towards more architectural lighting, so that means seeing less lighting and then really highlighting amazing fixtures. I found that for a certain period of time we were always trying to put eye-candy everywhere and it looks really unsophisticated and kind of crass in an interior when you could choose two gorgeous, really designed fixtures and then keep everything else quite quiet. I think we’re seeing a return to that. You saw a lot of that in the 60′s and 70′s even the end of 50′s. So it’s kind of exciting to see that returning to contemporary interior. It’s always been a part of modern interiors, but contemporary interiors are seeing more of it.
[Kelly Deck of Kelly Deck Design]
