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Custom Lighting Design

Custom Lighting Design

So you can’t find what you’re looking for on our website, why not talk to us about a custom lighting design.  Due to our large range of components we are well equipped to create a vast array of lighting fixtures.  We have worked with a number of designers and architects on bespoke lighting projects…

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RMIT Student Design Sherly Herliana

RMIT Student Design Sherly Herliana

At Edison we often work with design students on various lighting projects and it always amazes us what inventive products they come up with. We were recently sent the finished result of Sherly Herliana’s woven pendant light and love the beautiful sculptural nature of it. Sherly is an industrial design…

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The Plough Hotel Footscray reopens with BIG design

The Plough Hotel Footscray reopens with BIG design

Red Caged trouble lights We visited the newly revamped Plough Hotel on Friday night. As locals we are happy to have another quality venue opening up nearby and we had a special interest in this particular place as it has undergone numerous changes over the years and we were intrigued…

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Yellow cages and purple insulators

Yellow cages and purple insulators

Yellow cages and purple insulators may not be the most complex solution to your lighting design. Here at the Seddon Wine Store however they are used to great effect with supporting color and detail. This started life a small plain space with suspended ceiling and big fridges. To create a…

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Vintage Edison Light Bulb range

New to the shop are two tube lamps both fantastic designs and less expensive than previously available bulbs.

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The dollar cost of using Edison Light bulbs

The dollar cost of using Edison Light bulbs has largely been smothered by all the talk of efficiencies and greenhouse emissions. Hysteria seems to abound when it comes to the humble light globe. What we need to focus on is just how much one of these old style bulbs will…

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Tomodachi Japanese restaurant makeover

Tomodachi Japanese restaurant makeover

Tomodachi Japanese restaurant makeover design and work completion has been performed by the good folks at StudioMKZ. It was a simple upgrade to the existing 300sqm. The Tomodachi Japanese restaurant is up at Broadway Shopping Centre. Shown here are images of the New Brass E27 lampholders and some larger exotic…

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Original Edison Swan Electric Co Ltd Lamp

Original Edison Swan Electric Co Ltd Lamp

An original Edison Swan Electric Co Ltd Lamp turned up in an estate this week and we were lucky enough to examine the contents and packaging. There is a great deal of quite interesting history surrounding this particular lamp and the Johseph Swan Thomas Edison corporate and scientific relationship. The…

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Color perception and incandecent light

Color perception is a tricky thing. Our brain does a great job at smoothing and correcting for color shift so that we perceive white light as much as possible. Colors look fairly normal to us under Incandescent light but not so with florescent. Good article from Russia here regarding the…