Despite being one of the earliest forms of interior lighting, wall sconces remain an underrated lighting option in modern homes. Once essential for holding torches, oil lamps, and wax candles, they’ve ...

The Historic Sykesville Colored Schoolhouse, which served as a school for black children in the early 1900’s, is in danger of becoming inaccessible, according to Schoolhouse Director Pat Greenwald.

Compact, glowing circles trace points of light across the wall with the Vibia's Dots collection. Deployed alone like a sparkling jewel or in combination to create a glowing galaxy, the Dots wall ...

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A wall of 100 lava lamps at Cloudflare’s San Francisco office isn’t just for kitsch effect–it’s quietly encrypting information. When you walk into the San Francisco office of the cloud network and ...

The lava lamp usually gets a bum rap as some kind of lowbrow psychedelic entertainment system for people who are too strung out to enjoy any stimulation of real substance. But the lazy loafing sources ...

This spring, New Yorkers are being treated to impressive retrospectives of trailblazing women—from Alice Neel at The Met to Julie Mehretu at The Whitney, and from Yayoi Kusama at the New York ...

TASK LAMPS these are not. The dramatic, dappled, unstudious light cast by a new breed of fixtures relies on darkness as much as illumination. “Light does not exist without shadow—it is shadow that ...

We like the idea of a bedside shelf and the floor space it frees up in lieu of bedside tables. But then, the question of ...