CELEBRATE COLLECTIONS

As all collectors know, display is just as important as tracking down the right piece. Lighting is an effective way to draw attention to favourite items. ‘When lighting collections arranged on shelves, consider their most interesting attributes,’ advises Sally Storey of John Cullen Lighting. ‘If the shape is lovely, the shelves they sit on can be backlit using LED tape to throw the objects into silhouette. Glass can be put on top of a cool-running LED uplight to make it glow from within.’

Here, shelves are backlit with Contour HD27 LED strip, £117 per m, while the fireplace is uplit with Lucca, £110, both from John Cullen Lighting.