Refresh Before the Big Day: Lighting Upgrades for Christmas, Weddings and Special Occasions
Not every home update needs a full renovation. Sometimes there's simply a date on the calendar: Christmas lunch with the whole family, a wedding, an engagement party, a milestone birthday, or relat...
How to Choose Sculptural Lighting That Suits Your Home
In our first instalment of this series, we explored what makes light a sculpture: pieces designed to be admired as much as switched on. Since then, sculptural lighting has moved from the gallery wa...
Lighting Alfresco Dining for Hospitality
Australian hospitality lives outdoors for half the year. A terrace, courtyard or alfresco dining area is rarely a bonus space in this climate - it is core trading floor, often the most requested se...
Saturday Indesign 2026 at Nook Collections: A Day of Light, Material and Making | Vol.2
In Vol. One of our Saturday Indesign story, we explored light through emotion - from our biological relationship with natural light to circadian rhythms, colour and the way illumination can shape h...
Nook Times: Saturday Indesign 2026
Explore the first edition of Nook Times, created for Saturday Indesign at Nook Collections, Surry Hills. Click below to open and browse the full issue. Want a copy? Download Nook Times
The material makes the meal: dining lighting style guide
The right lighting can encourage lingering at the dining table, long after the plates are cleared. It's rarely a single source of light - it's often an overhead light with glass that scatters light...
Saturday Indesign 2026 at Nook Collections | Vol.1
Saturday Indesign 2026 at Nook Collections: A Day of Light, Material and Making | Vol.1 On Saturday 12 September, Nook Collections opened its doors for our very first Saturday Indesign - and what a...
Designed for laid-back luxury on Sydney's Manly Beach, 55 North is the bar and lounge heart of Manly Pacific hotel - a space where the beach's easy warmth meets a richer, more decadent palette of s...
Balcony, pool and alfresco lighting style guide
As the warmer months arrive, life moves outside. Dinner runs past sunset on the balcony. A long afternoon by the pool turns into evening drinks. The garden becomes an extension of the home; for bot...
Hospitality at home: A room-by-room guide to lighting like a venue
Walk into a hotel bar, a good restaurant, a lobby that gets the greeting right, and the lighting is doing something a home rarely bothers to do. It is layered. It is warm. It is dimmed to the hour ...