C&F CREATION / JOURNAL

Journal.

Notes on light, rooms and the lamps we draw in Auckland — written for Australian homes.

Where the floor lamp goes: lighting an Australian lounge room

Four placement zones, real measurements and the lamps drawn for each — how to light an Australian lounge room from the edges in.

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6 pieces · from the Auckland studio

Brass, wood grain and one honest curve: what actually makes a floor lamp mid-century, and three ways the look comes home.

Where the lamp stands, what job its light does, and why a plug beats a pendant: our guide to choosing the floor lamp your evenings settle around.

Pendant light without the pendant: how an arc floor lamp hangs a warm pool over the sofa from nothing more than a plug in the wall.

The right floor lamp height has less to do with the lamp than with where your eyes rest once you finally sit down for the evening.

Linen softens it, pleats fold it, and open weave turns it into pattern: how three fabric shades make three different kinds of evening light.