Inspiration

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Not Your Grandma’s Chandelier: Modern Statement Styles for Every Home

Not Your Grandma’s Chandelier: Modern Statement Styles for Every Home

Time to banish outdated notions about chandeliers. Today's modern chandeliers are fresh, sculptural statement pieces that work beautifully in small homes, modern flats and a... read more

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A Beginner’s Guide to the Great British Design Houses (and why they still matter)

A Beginner’s Guide to the Great British Design Houses (and why they still matter)

How can you tell your Morris & Co from your GP & J Baker – and why do these historic British design houses still matter... read more

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Gifts that keep giving (and glowing): Pooky’s 2025 Christmas Gift ideas

Gifts that keep giving (and glowing): Pooky’s 2025 Christmas Gift ideas

Find Christmas gift ideas with real staying power: rechargeable table lamps, beautiful lampshades, atmospheric candleholders, stylish desk lights and foolproof Pooky gift cards. Bright, useful... read more

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The Archive Discoveries: Pooky x GP & J Baker, Volume II

The Archive Discoveries: Pooky x GP & J Baker, Volume II

A brand-new designer lampshade collection, bringing previously unreleased heritage prints to light - literally. read more

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Meet the designer: Jane Taylor of Collaborative Craft Projects

Meet the designer: Jane Taylor of Collaborative Craft Projects

Read the amazing story of Collaborative Craft Projects and its team of female Zimbabwean artisans, makers of a gorgeous new range of Pooky pendant shades... read more

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marble table lamp with circular brass shade next to plants and a bowl

The Meaning of Pattern: Circles

Why we find meaning in circles – plus tips on how and where to use circles in your home… read more

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Meet Rohan Blacker – lovely lamps, happy accidents and ten years on from founding Pooky

Meet Rohan Blacker – lovely lamps, happy accidents and ten years on from founding Pooky

Our founder – and prolific creator of lovely lamps – Rohan Blacker reflects on a decade of Pooky business… read more

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The Eight Ages of Light – a brief history of home lighting, from Ancient Rome to Pooky rechargeables

The Eight Ages of Light – a brief history of home lighting, from Ancient Rome to Pooky rechargeables

Pooky’s guide to two thousand years of interior lighting – and what it tells us about humans and their homes… read more

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Around the world in interior design: Morocco

Around the world in interior design: Morocco

Continuing our journey around the world’s interior design traditions, we dive into the exotic beauty of Morocco… read more