Journal


Ultimate Guide to Lighting and Lampshades for Home & Hospitality
Aug 12, 2025
For both homes and hospitality spaces, choosing the perfect lighting or lampshade is about style and storytelling. Our guide and compilation of posts to help you choose the perfect one for your home or business. 
FAQ Series: A Guide to Choosing Fabric for Lampshades
Jul 24, 2025
This FAQ series provides answers to your questions about choosing the right fabric for your lampshade. We explore different textiles and their impact on lampshade design.
Perfect cooperation between man and machine
Jul 17, 2025
Can a company consider themselves truly handcrafted if they use machinery? Is the artistry of the traditional craft lost and diluted with the use of modern tools? 
Beyond the Trend: Why the Most Successful Interiors Commission, Not Just Source
Jul 09, 2025
Discover why commissioning bespoke lighting and furnishings offers more value, meaning and impact than off-the-shelf sourcing. Design leadership starts here.
pleated silk lampshade detail
Jul 04, 2025
In our FAQ series, we aim to dive a little further into the answers to questions you may have regarding choosing your perfect bespoke lampshade. 
illustration showing a bespoke lampshade and lamp sitting on top of a pile of discarded and broken lamps and lampshades
Jun 09, 2025
This article presents bespoke lighting design as a sustainable, thoughtful response to the environmental and aesthetic limitations of catalogue purchasing. 
Top view of the LP01 pendant light by Pirajean Lees and made by Iberian LIghting showing the bespoke top diffuser
May 29, 2025
Creating with soul is about redrawing our value criteria to regain something lost. A collabo with Pirajean Lees for WOW!house25 illustrates the power of slow design.
a group of unusual ceramic lamp bases with lampshades
May 17, 2025
The Iberian Lighting x Ashdown Pottery Collection – a celebration of craftsmanship, creativity, and Sussex heritage. Now available to order online.