Luna Lighting, makers of hand crafted ceramic lights, is based at a studio in the heart of Bloomsbury in central London, part of Cockpit Arts - the UK's only creative business incubator for designer-makers - so expect lots of treasures at the open studios events held twice a year.

Luna Lights have evolved out of a personal search to fuse the cool clean lines of modern design with a need for warmth and sparkle.

Designer maker Anna Perring explains it as a balancing act between the head and the heart: 'My head wants a clutter free clear space to think in, my heart wants something softer and more fanciful and so the aim was to create unique ceramic lights for the design-aware individual. We want our lights to be uplifting and aim to make people smile. The patterns of light they scatter across a room have the quality of fairy lights (that I could never bear to take down after Christmas) and fireflies, seen for the first time in Italy a few years ago and which were a magical kick-start to this lighting project.'

Casting glitterball light patterns, each light adds a special atmosphere to any indoor space and unlike most other lights they can also be adapted for use outdoors as they are stoneware fired and frostproof.

Anna has new designs for 2010 in her range of fine porcelain tea lights - all handmade, tactile treasures that are highly collectable and make lovely unusual gifts. See the Online Shop for more details.



Anna at Country Living Fair 2007   photo © Ernst Schade