The lamps in my house
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At some level this turns into an accessibility and comfort issue. People with limited vision can take strong advantage of well placed lights. Highlights and shadows are some of the most fundamental elements of human visual perception. Without them our brain needs to work overtime to analyze a given scene.
For that reason I really like overhead lights as: 1. You can easily fit a larger number of overhead lights (e.g. 6 overhead lights vs 2 eye-level task lights) 2. For equivalent lighting in a room say x lumens, each overhead light must be x/6, whereas the 2 eye-level lights would be x/3 lumens, much brighter. 3. Because the lights are overhead, they're not in my vision, yet light up the objects in my room.
I still have 5 eye-level lamps in my living room, but they supplement the overhead lights which always give a base amount of light, and allow the lamps to be less bright. Every time I turn off the overhead lights I see too little, and if I turn up my lamps to see better, it is too bright for the comfort of my eyes.
It's akin to driving: I like having a sun above me, when it's low in the sky before dusk and shining in my eyes, it sucks, even though objects are less bright and visible than midday, simply because of the positioning of the light vis-a-vis my eyes.
If you browse sites like 1stdibs or Pamono, you're going to see dramatically inflated prices, but I don't see why anyone would ever buy there. Ebay, Selency, Vntg, etc. are more likely to sell at actual market prices.
My go to sources are Selency, Vntg, Instagram, Catawiki, and then a bunch of online stores across Europe I've bookmarked, including auction sites like Bukowskis in Sweden. The smaller vintage stores are the ones to go to generally.
Nice lights, but not the easiest to move, a bit fragile and not very power efficient. The LED ones don't power on when you apply power to them which is a strange choice and makes it difficult to integrate with wall switches.
I guess the modularity (you can purchase more lights) is a real feature though?
Google that. It's pretty expensive for a flashlight but makes a PHENOMENAL work light. 3 brightness/focus modes, magnetic base, adjustable head, holds charge forever, and rechargable.
Light where you look, as stable as your head, brightness variable as desired.
Anduril firmware can run in simple mode or get stupid complicated with things like candle, lightning, tactical flashing (think flashbang level of trying to disorient).
Good luck with that 3D printer hotend!
[0] https://www.sofirnlight.com/products/sofirn-h35r-1500lm-head...
*can also use the light it self to recharge the battery within.
Brought me joy as Kondo would have said
One of my recent favourites - Le Soleil by Foscarini - https://www.foscarini.com/en/product/le-soleil-std-s-en/
It's wonderfully asymmetrical without overdoing it, with every layer suspended and swaying independently when prodded. Exceptional light distribution.
And because I hate to have only LED lighting, I stick good old (but brand new) incandescent bulbs in my "ice cube" lamps: such bulbs go by many names and can still be found (they're either for ovens [where they can sustain insane heat], for warming terrariums, for heating lava lamps, etc.).
Just having one or two incandescent bulb in the living room, in addition to LEDs, works wonder to give a cozy ambiance.
I'd say it's a bit sad to have lamps from the 70s but then stick cold LED bulbs into them (and, yes, even "warm" LEDs do feel incredibly cold): put incandescent bulbs and experience them at they were meant to be (once again: no need to replace the entire house with incandescent bulbs, just two or three here and there shall work wonder).
Look for 2200K LEDs – they’re actually warm and closer to a dimmed incandescent. I personally prefer 1800K, which are warmer still, but they’re much harder to find and have far fewer options in terms of brightness.
The Hue basically just adds a switch inside the bulb, which can be remote controlled. The lamp's switch is still there, and functions as normal (turning on or off electricity to the bulb).
So your light is on when the lamp's switch + the hue's switch is on. It's off when either one is off.
So if your light is on, you can indeed walk to a lamp and turn the switch off to turn off the light. Or you can turn off the Hue bulb via your phone (or Philips Hue switches you can put anywhere in the house, they're basically bluetooth switches that run on a <$1 replaceable battery that lasts 2 years.
If you turn off your Hue light via your app, you can turn it back on later via the app, but not the light switch (as that's already on, but the bulb isn't).
And if you turn off your lamp via its switch, you can turn it back on later via the same switch, but not the app, as the bulb is already on but not getting power as the lamp's switch is off.
Especially with multiple people living in the house with different behaviors, that becomes annoying. So usually people choose to stop using the lamp switch and only use the Hue. You can of course hook-up the bulb to a Hue switch, so you can turn it on and off with both the switch and the app.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5LS2KQW
I don't know how honeywell of all companies is selling this, but I figure they have engineers that they turned loose on and got out of their way.
It is just super nice. Elegant looking, not expensive, very high quality illumination that can get bright, smoothly dimmable with a knob. a knob to adjust lighting is a good design.
In comparison, dyson makes a lamp that is the same kind of interesting genre, but they cost 10-20x.
[1] except to turn it off is inelegant - you have to press and hold instead of tap, because tap changes color temperature.
Not really the Honeywell. I tracked the lamp maker down at honeywellsmartlighting.com.
Honeywell International is licensing out the name, according to https://honeywellsmartlighting.com/pages/about-us
I wonder how that deal works, if and what kind of vetting Honeywell does before products are released.
I would imagine when the name is licensed, they would like to keep an eye on the type and quality of products the licensee puts out on the market
Honeywell air filters are Helen of Troy, Honeywell thermostats are Resideo, Honeywell lighting is Huo Ming Technology Guangdong, etc.
A lamp you love, you might say?
People are not silently replaced by others, who gradually change to monetize your relationship.
(ok, this may not apply to teenagers)
I found it when looking for a lamp that doesn't expose the bulb itself, which is exactly what it was designed for.
I guess would it make a noticeable difference to put an LED faux filament bulb in here? Or is it just not as fussy as I'm imagining?
It's an Ikea Torchère: kinda old now, just halogen, but I've always kept a spare "bulb" for it somewhere - replaced it every 10-20 years. I still like the weird pattern on the ceiling. :P
My articulating desk lamp was balanced for incandescent bulbs. The LED ones are heavier and pull it down.
Probably way less stable than the real deal.
We have a couple of the marset lamps that we enjoy as well. The sort of low-poly design is really fun.
I love the reference to Druk/Another Round in the section on the Louis Poulsen PH 5. Such a great film.
In addition to these also a huge fan of Anglepoise desk lamps, Lotte lamps and Mantis sconces.
But honestly, I'd love for the entire ceiling to be one controllable light source. That would be perfect.
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Clicking on the pictures does nothing - are you relying on Javascript to do these things for this page?
It's a beautiful space though. He did a great job of cord management on his desk.
> Fun fact: “Akari” means light in Japanese, both as illumination and as lightness.
Wow! I love it when two languages have matching homonyms. I always wonder "what does it mean ?". Like, in English "second" to mean the unit of time and the place after "first" feels like two distinct usages. But it's the same in Spanish ("segundo"), which points to a deeper connection (and isn't so unsurprising given the shared roots of the languages): the unit of time is called that because it's the second subdivision of an hour.
The two usages of "light" in English are so distinct I'm quite surprised it's like this in the entirely unrelated Japanese language. Is this just a big coincidence, or does anyone know any deeper reasons here?
So that example fails to support any reason for akari matching light in English. But for the sake of argument here is another one: じゃり (giari, read as "ja-ri") in Japanese means gravel and in my dialect almost the same sound (giarin, "ja-ri-n") also mean gravel. Go figure.
So I was wondering if the same applied here. My initial reaction is that "light" meaning "illuminated" and "light" meaning "not heavy" is that this is just one of those coincidences, since I can't see how that one word relates the two concepts. But given that Japanese also does the same, it makes me wonder if maybe there is some sort of relationship. Maybe it was a common belief historically that the sun was not very heavy or something like that. Or maybe not and it's just a rare double coincidence!
>rare double coincidence
https://jisho.org/word/%E6%98%8E%E3%82%8B%E3%81%84 / https://jisho.org/word/%E6%98%8E%E3%81%8B%E3%82%8A (adjective vs noun but clearly just the same word in different form)
vs
https://jisho.org/word/%E8%BB%BD%E3%81%84 (light weight)
- そう sō, "so"
- 名前 namae, "name"
- 乱暴 rambō, "violence"
- 被る kaburu, "cover"
- 孫 son, "descendant"
- 銭 sen, "one hundredth of a yen" (sounds similar to "cent")
- 買 (meaning "buy") can be read as bai
- はず hazu, "has to"
- 鈴 rin, "bell" (sounds similar to "ring")
- おい oi, "oi"
- 陰気 inki, "gloomy" (sounds similar to "inky")
And just for fun, one from Old Japanese:
- 女 womina, "woman"