Palefire makes playful, decorative homeware joining up a resolutely maximalist approach with sustainable practices. Founder Rowena Morgan Cox started the small London-based design studio with a view to bringing an exuberant artistic sensibility to design for the home. Her focus on colour, play and painterly surfaces takes its cue from historical design movements such as Arts & Crafts and the Omega Workshops. Each piece from Palefire’s debut lighting collection is hand-painted and made-to-order.

Palefire

Bell Pendant Bonbon

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Parasol Table Lamp Bonbon

Totem Floor Lamp (Brick / UK)

Totem Floor Lamp (Celadon/Citrine / UK)

Totem Floor Lamp (Clove / UK)

Bell Surface Mount Palm

Bell Surface Mount Azure

 Bell Surface Mount Bonbon

Bell Pendant - Pool

Rotor Wall Light Plug-in Bonbon

Rotor Wall Light Plug-in Azure

Rotor Wall Light Plug-in Palm

Satellite Uplighter Bonbon

 Canopy Floor Lamp Oxide

Canopy Floor Lamp Powder

Canopy Floor Lamp Oxblood

Canopy Floor Lamp Loop

Disc Pendant Oxblood

Disc Pendant Powder

 Disc Pendant Oxide

Disc Pendant Loop

Echo Pendant Loop

Echo Pendant Oxblood

Echo Pendant Oxide

 Echo Pendant Powder

Halo Wall Light Oxblood

Halo Wall Light Powder

 Halo Wall Light Oxide

Halo Wall Light Loop

Orb Wall Light - Large

Orb Wall Light - Medium

Cloche Pendant Light, Colour Capsule Vol. 2 - Lichen

Cloche Pendant Light, Colour Capsule Vol. 2 Frieze - Clove

Cloche Pendant Light, Colour Capsule Vol. 2, Frieze - Brick

Cloche Pendant Light, Colour Capsule Vol. 2 - Marsh

Cloche Pendant, Colour Capsule Vol. 2 - Frieze Limestone

Buoy Pendant - Colour Capsule Vol. 2, Marsh

Buoy Pendant - Colour Capsule Vol. 2, Frieze Limestone

Buoy Pendant Colour Capsule Vol. 2, Frieze Brick

Buoy Pendant, Colour Capsule Vol. 2 - Frieze Clove

Buoy Pendant, Colour Capsule Vol. 2 - Lichen

Pavilion Table Lamp, Colour Capsule Vol. 2 - Frieze Clove

A good design fair is, quite frankly, priceless. It's these art fairs that shape the year: where new work gets its first outing, where inspiration is found, and where you discover unknown artists who'll forever change your space. Book your hotel early, wear shoes you can stand in for eight hours, and leave a free morning for the IYKYK exhibitions.

Design Fairs Worth Planning a Trip Around

Our weekly Nice Things Edit is a curated Monday round-up of what we’re loving right now. From our favourite pieces on Glassette to a recipe, a watch, a read, a place to visit, a restaurant, and a gift worth bookmarking.
Each week, every member of the Glassette team shares their current favourites, whether that’s new arrivals, pieces we’ve spotted trending, or timeless finds we can’t stop thinking about. Think of it as a weekly dose of joy, discovery, and design inspiration, handpicked by the Glassette team.

Nice Things This Week

The listening bar has been having its moment - low lights, drinks, someone earnest behind the turntable. Now the ritual is moving home, and the hi-fi evening has become something you host rather than book. Think a turntable given pride of place, records shelved to be seen, seating arranged around the speakers rather than the television. It's hosting at its most generous: one album, played properly, start to finish. We've curated the room - the music, mercifully, remains yours. Below, everything but the B-sides. 

Trending Now: The Home Listening Room

Some houses take years to get right. Where We'd Stay is a new series from Glassette where we ask the people behind exceptional places to stay - hotels, villas, houses, the occasional very good Airbnb - to walk us through what they made and why.
We're starting in Suffolk, at Melton Hall: a Grade II listed Georgian house on the edge of Woodbridge, sleeping up to 17, with a pool that (according to everyone involved) stops people in their tracks. It was three years in the making - a collaboration between Cassandra Stavrou, founder of Proper Snacks, and her longtime friend and interior designer Rebecca Sicardi, who spent those years sourcing art and furniture from independent dealers, avoiding big brands entirely, and commissioning two oak tables from a single fallen tree on the grounds.
Each instalment covers one property, question by question - the design decisions, the nearby spots worth knowing about, and the one thing guests always comment on. Places we'd genuinely stay. Starting here.

Where We'd Stay

Good renovation advice is almost always retrospective. You have to make the mistakes first. Room by Room is a new series from Glassette where we ask designers and homeowners to walk us through a single space: what wasn't working, what they spent too much on (and whether it was worth it), and what they'd tell you before you pick up a sledgehammer.
For the latest instalment of Room by Room, we spoke to Corey Hemingway, co-founder of design-led estate agency Hemingway+K, about the kitchen extension of her 1960s London townhouse. What started as a small, dingy space became a warm, light-filled room designed to do everything at once: cook, work, host, and connect seamlessly to the garden beyond.
Twelve months in the making, the project came with its share of surprises - deeper foundations, escalating construction costs, and the occasional challenge of being, in Corey's words, a "tyrannical perfectionist". Along the way, she learned the value of trusting contractors, following instinct when choosing materials, and investing in the elements that shape a room's atmosphere.
From Douglas fir walls and butter-yellow joinery to the Accoya sliding doors that frame the garden, Corey takes us through the decisions, splurges and lessons behind her favourite room in the house.

Room by Room with Corey

There's a reason we spend so much time rearranging, repainting and quietly obsessing over the right shade of green for a single wall. Home is personal - more personal, probably, than most of us admit. This month, we've been thinking about that: about the objects that make a space feel inhabited rather than staged, and about the particular satisfaction of a room that couldn't belong to anyone else.
Our pride homeware edit is built around that idea. Pieces with colour and character, chosen for the people who know exactly what they want and aren't especially interested in playing it safe. Mustard Made, who are donating 10% of sales to LGBTQ+ rights organisation Outright International throughout June, sit at the heart of it, alongside a handful of other finds that feel considered, a bit daring, and genuinely built to last.
No novelty product here. Just good things, for homes with a point of view.

Pride Homeware Edit

Something that doesn’t happen every day: the chance to own a slice of Diane Keaton’s (very) extensive archive. Earlier this month, it was announced that New York-based auction house Bonhams will spearhead four auctions spanning May and June, offering up the late Academy Award winner’s personal archive. The sales will include everything from plush furniture and, no doubt, a killer selection of hats to red-carpet Gucci looks, artwork and trinkets collected throughout her lengthy on-screen career.

Shop Diane Keaton’s personal archive

Spend five minutes with Rachel Ama and you’re immediately pulled into her world, one where food is generous, sauce-led and rooted in feeling. For Rachel, Mother’s Day isn’t about a polite brunch or a single showstopper dish, it’s about abundance. Think slow-cooked butterbeans, citrusy chermoula, soft sourdough slicked with avocado and lemon salt, chocolate mousse with olive oil, and tables dotted with figs and berries, a feast designed to make mum feel truly spoilt.
In this conversation, Rachel reflects on the dishes that shaped her, the quiet power of intention when cooking for someone you love, and how becoming a mother herself has deepened her understanding of care. From pistachio lemon loaf as a fail-safe crowd-pleaser to suya-spiced oyster mushrooms made for sharing, she reminds us that celebratory food should be joyful, flavour-packed and made with heart - never worthy, never restrained, always abundant.

Cooking for Mother's Day

For this Best of Lighting edit, we’re focusing on pieces that do more than just illuminate, they set the mood. Think soft, warm glows balanced with cleaner, clearer light: lighting that feels comforting. 
The best designs strike that sweet spot between atmosphere and function. Together, they create spaces that feel considered, calm, and quietly uplifting. From sculptural pendants to understated table lamps, each piece has been chosen for its ability to elevate a room without overpowering it.

Best of Lighting

This week’s moodboard looks to Marty Supreme, a film that’s become a cultural artefact before most people have even taken their seats. In cinemas now, its rollout has set a new benchmark for how movies show up in culture.
For this week’s film moodboard, we’re borrowing from its world of sharp suits, sharp wit, and scenes that unfold over a perfectly poured drink. Think clean-lined martini glasses, silver platters, and tableware that leans polished and pared-back. Bring a slice of Marty Supreme’s after-hours energy home with our latest edit.

Marty Supreme

The secret isn’t more lighting, it’s softer lighting, placed with intention, and switched on before the evening goes grey. Boutique hotels have a particular kind of magic. You walk in and everything feels calm. The sofa looks inviting. The corners are warm. Nobody is being blasted by a ceiling light. Even the air seems better lit. And then you get home and your living room is… fine. Technically. But it doesn’t have that low, flattering glow that makes you want to order olives and speak quietly. It’s either dim and a bit sad, or bright in a way that makes you feel like you should be cleaning. The good news is you don’t need to redesign your living room to get that boutique hotel feeling. You just need to borrow their lighting rules - the ones they’ve been quietly perfecting for years.

Light Like a Hotel

A soft midweek reset isn’t about deep-cleaning - it’s about easing the week back into something manageable. In this guide, we share low-effort midweek reset ideas that take 10–20 minutes and make your home feel calmer fast: clearing one surface, containing clutter (not organising it), resetting the sink, and adding one sensory cue with lighting or scent. Includes a simple 12-minute routine, the objects that make resets effortless, quick picks for when energy is low, and a practical FAQ.

Midweek Reset, Soft Edition

When the sun clocks off at 4pm, your home needs a lighting plan and we’ve got just what you need! Winter is when your home starts telling on itself. That chair you love? Suddenly too dark to read in. Your kitchen? Weirdly clinical. Your living room? Technically fine, but somehow not somewhere you want to be. And then there’s the nightly ritual: you finish the last email, it’s pitch-black outside, and you switch on the ceiling light like you’re interrogating yourself. Welcome to the 4pm problem - when winter exposes lighting that was designed for seeing, not living. The fix isn’t complicated. It’s just… softer, warmer, and a little more layered than you think.

Winter Lighting Guide

A calm bedroom doesn’t require a full clean - just a smarter system. This guide breaks down the 15-minute bedroom reset that actually works, with time-coded steps you can repeat daily: make the bed properly, clear visual clutter fast, reset the nightstand and surfaces, and finish with one sensory cue. You’ll also find the most common mistakes, a simple shopping list, and quick picks for when you only have five minutes. Designed for real life - not perfect homes.

15-Minute Bedroom Reset

For something extra special this year, we’ve curated hopeful art works and precious lamps that can be cherished for years to come.

Gifting for the BIG Present

As the evenings grow darker and the clocks get ready to go back, it’s the perfect moment to lean into the warmth of ambient lighting. Soft, layered light can completely transform a space - casting a gentle glow that soothes and softens as daylight fades. Think the golden hue of table lamps, the calm flicker of candlelight, or sculptural pieces that bring both form and function. As we settle into slower evenings, let lighting set the mood - creating pockets of warmth, comfort, and quiet radiance throughout your home.

Ambient Lighting Edit

In 1967, architect Junzo Yoshimura designed the Shonan-Chigasaki House - a quiet landmark of Japanese modernism, where clean lines and soft light frame views of the sea. Nearly sixty years on, its spirit lives on in a sky-blue carpet, originally custom-made for the home and recently revived by @yamagatadantsu from the archives.
The carpet’s return is more than a restoration - it is a dialogue across generations, a preservation of Yoshimura’s vision and a reminder that modernism was always about more than form. It was about feeling. About atmosphere. About the way a single color can hold the memory of a place.
Inspired by the quiet elegance of Japanese mid-century modernism, we’ve curated an edit that captures its spirit below!