Skinflint meets: Cambridge Imprint
We catch up with Claerwen James, Ali Murphy and Jane Powell the faces behind Cambridge Imprint and chat all things design, inspiration, and collaborations.
- InteriorsMinimalism in Practice
If you are looking to take your own home from maxed out to minimal, it can be difficult to decide what should stay and what should go - here are some tips.
- InteriorsSkinflint Meets: Mini Moderns
Read more from Keith Stephenson and Mark Hampshire, founders of interiors brand Mini Moderns, on their influences and favourite lights from the Skinflint collection.
- InteriorsSkinflint meets: Rohini Wahi, founder and editor of The Beat That My Heart Skipped
The next in our series Skinflint Meets features journalist Rohini Wahi. Rohini is the founder of design and inspiration blog The Beat That My Heart Skipped and new Indian-inspired lifestyle brand Napeansea.
- InteriorsSkinflint meets: Sophie Bush, founder and editor of Warehouse Home
Today we start a new series on our blog in which we catch up with influencers from the world of interiors. First up is Sophie Bush, founder of Warehouse Home.
- InteriorsHallway lighting design ideas
Helpful ideas and tips for your hallway lighting scheme from the lighting designers at Skinflint
- Lighting AdviceKitchen Lighting design ideas
Helpful ideas and tips for creating your own kitchen lighting scheme from the lighting designers at Skinflint
- Lighting AdviceI: Journalist Kate Watson-Smyth on how to by vintage lighting
Mad about the House journalist and writer Kate Watson-Smyth advises on buying vintage lighting, featuring Skinflint US traffic lights, American runway lights and vintage medical floor light.
- In the PressTop interiors and design blogs
At Skinflint we keep an eye on beautiful inspiring design blogs, looking for everything from furniture to textiles and we're always on the hunt for the rare and unusual.
- InteriorsStyle inspiration from our new collection of opaline glassware:
With the nights drawing in and shorter days just around the corner, we have put together a selection of images from our recent photoshoot to give you some styling ideas for our Autumn Winter 2016 collection of white opaline glass lights:
- InteriorsLighting in Bathrooms, understanding IP Ratings
We are often asked about bathroom lighting and IP ratings. The fact of the matter is that it's not as straightforward as I Like that light, I'll buy it for my bathroom.
- Lighting AdviceNew photography at Skinflint
A selection of our latest lifestyle photography, featuring in addition to our own lights and props, papers and books by Cambridge Imprint.
- InteriorsThe Concrete apartment in Nagoya Japan
One of our recent projects is The Concrete Apartment in Nagoya, Japan: designed by Keiichi Kiriyama of Airhouse Design Office.
- ArchitectureThe Pyestock story
The latest collection from the Skinflint workshop comprises entirely of lights from one specific location: The National Gas Turbine Establishment, known simply as Pyestock, it was the place the jet engine as we know it was nurtured and grew to supersonic speeds.
- Stuff We LoveCockenzie in pictures
The team at Skinflint were thrilled to salvage the majority of the lights from the former power station at Cockenzie in Scotland. Here we present a small collection of images of the Power station's monumental exterior and evocative interior.
- ArchitecturePirelli Factory Warehouses
Beautiful images of the derelict interior of the Pirelli Factory and warehouses in Burton On Trent.
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