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Join us as we continue to explore lighting and lam

Join us as we continue to explore lighting and lamps in film — and your chance to win a VP9 Flowerpot Portable Lamp worth £155!

Lighting plays a starring role on screen: it sets mood, defines character and guides the story. And with the nights drawing in, it becomes just as important at home.

In collaboration with our friends at @hollowaysofludlow, we’re celebrating our latest feature with a very special giveaway…

🎉 WIN an &Tradition VP9 Flowerpot Portable Lamp (worth £155!)
ENTER NOW via the LINK IN BIO — it takes just five seconds.
*Giveaway closes Friday 19 December 2025, 12:00 midday.

Why the VP9? It’s a cordless portable light that glows so beautifully on screen — from Ted Lasso to countless contemporary interiors. And it pairs perfectly with other cinematic favourites (swipe to see):

✨ The Eclisse, glowing softly in Pain and Glory.
✨ Noguchi’s Akari series, weightless and poetic in Pulp Fiction and Severance.

DISCOVER MORE — WITH LINKS TO BUY — IN OUR LATEST FEATURE (LINK IN BIO)

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🎉 GIVEAWAY! In collaboration with @hollowaysofludl

🎉 GIVEAWAY! In collaboration with @hollowaysofludlow we’re giving away an &Tradition VP9 Flowerpot Portable Lamp worth £155 to one lucky winner.
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This Giveaway is UK-based and closes Fri 19 Dec 2025, 12:00 midday

Join us as we explore lights and lamps in film - p

Join us as we explore lights and lamps in film - plus your chance to win a VP9 Flowerpot Portable Lamp!
As the nights deepen and the light shifts, our homes begin to rely on a gentle choreography of lamps, pendants and glowing corners. Filmmakers understand this instinctively — light guides the eye, defines character and quietly shapes the story.

@filmandfurniture and @hollowaysofludlow have joined forces to explore some unforgettable lighting and lamps in film — and how to bring these on-screen ideas into your own home.

The classics tell their own tales:
✨ Panton’s Flowerpot pendants, splashing colour across The Room Next Door and Conversations With Friends.
✨ The Nesso/Nessino, that soft space-age glow stealing scenes in Mad Men.

DISCOVER MORE - WITH LINKS TO BUY - IN OUR LATEST FEATURE (LINK IN BIO)

🎉 GIVEAWAY! And because lighting should spark joy off-screen too…

In collaboration with Holloways of Ludlow, we’re giving away an &Tradition VP9 Flowerpot Portable Lamp worth £155 to one lucky winner.
ENTER NOW (it's a simple 5 second task!) via the LINK IN BIO.
Giveaway closes Friday 19 December, 2025, 12:00 midday

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THE FUTURE ON FILM (Part 9) >> EX MACHINA (2014)

THE FUTURE ON FILM (Part 9) >> EX MACHINA (2014)

Where earlier posts in this series have explored futures built on optimism, disorder or cultural distortion, Ex Machina imagines a near future shaped by something far more unsettling: a billionaire’s aesthetic control.
A world where architecture, furniture and lighting are curated as psychological tools.

Inside Nathan’s remote hideaway, the design choices are precise, seductive and quietly aggressive — revealing as much about him as about the future he represents.

Copper Lights — David Derksen for Vij5
These folded, geometric pendants cast warm, architectural shadows across the house.
Their artisanal feel softens the concrete surroundings, while their precision mirrors Nathan’s obsession with engineered perfection.

Toni Zuccheri Globe Table Lamp (Venini)
A glowing sphere of Murano glass — mid-century optimism repurposed for a colder era.
Its warm diffusion contrasts with the bunker-like architecture, suggesting comfort, but never quite delivering it.

Take a Line for a Walk chair — Alfredo Häberli for Moroso
A sculptural, cocoon.
It feels simultaneously protective and defensive — the perfect metaphor for a man who performs hospitality while constructing a trap.

Venus Chair — Camerich
Elegant, sculptural and quietly luxurious.
This is the softest of the house’s seating choices, but even here the comfort is curated: a touch of mid-century warmth within a strictly controlled environment.

In Ex Machina, the future is defined by power, taste and the architecture of manipulation.
Design becomes part of the experiment.

👉 Follow @filmandfurniture for the next post in this “Future on Film” series.

👀 Find furniture and lighting from ExMachina for your own home at FilmandFurniture.com
(WEB LINK IN BIO, then search Ex Machina)

THE FUTURE ON FILM (Part 8) >> SPACE: 1999 (1975–1

THE FUTURE ON FILM (Part 7) >> A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

THE FUTURE ON FILM (Part 7) >> A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)

Kubrick’s future in A Clockwork Orange is unlike anything we’ve seen in the series so far. No sprawling dystopian city, no digital utopia — instead, a future that felt (in 1971) just around the corner.
A world built not from speculative technology but from real, cutting-edge 1960s design and art, arranged to feel slightly skewed, slightly heightened, slightly wrong.

This is what makes the film’s design so unsettling: it’s a future made from things we already know — but pushed into a new psychological register.

We see this most clearly across:

The Alexanders’ house (“HOME”)
A real, modernist house presented like an art installation.
• the sculptural white Retreat Pod by Roger & Martin Dean, its lid forming a heart-like silhouette
• the red-and-black low chair echoing that same motif on the upper tier
• a heart-shaped artwork completing a visual argument

Alex’s bedroom
A teenage space made futuristic by design rather than technology.
• the iconic Transcriptors turntable, all crisp edges and floating precision
• Christ Unlimited — religious iconography repeated until it becomes mechanical
• the Valentine typewriter — bright, portable, aggressively modern

and later in Cat Woman's house
• Herman Makkink’s Rocking Machine sculpture — smooth, abstract, provocatively stylised

These objects help construct a world where culture has become plastic, modular, performative — a near future in which human urges, technology and aesthetics have merged into a single, uneasy tableau.

A Clockwork Orange uses real 1960s design to imply what might happen next, not a century from now.
The future here is not technological:
it’s moral, cultural and psychological.

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👀 Find furniture, decor and art from A Clockwork Orange in our marketplace at FilmandFurniture.com (WEB LINK IN BIO > then search A Clockwork Orange)

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