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Lighting News: Alternative Illumination03-31-14 | News

Lighting News: Alternative Illumination
Landscape lighting products can be variously described as elegant, rugged, modern, classic, ornamental, and more. Here we look at products that also answer to whimsical, rustic, imaginative and such.

Nick Williams from Woodland Hills, Calif., is a landscape contractor by trade and an artist at heart so he designed a line of products and now offers them as the Nick Williams Landscape Lighting Collection, which is available exclusively through Lightcraft Outdoor Environments of Chatsworth, Calif.
www.lightcraftoutdoor.com www.nickwilliamsdesigns.com

The Candelier can hang from an overhead tree limb or arbor roof, and comes with a varied number of glowing candle lights around a rustic metal planter.

The Rusty L is an interesting pathway light made of PVC with the weathered appeal of metal that appears to have been naturally aged.

The Candle Kit comes complete with a resin candle, light bulb and wire that can convert virtually anything into a low voltage outdoor light.

The Iron Candle combines the warm effect of real candlelight with a rust finished mounting post.

The Rust Lantern adds a touch of the Old West with a distressed, metal construction available in black, rust, or copper patina finish.

The Urn features a frosted glass urn in amber or opal cloud finish on a solid metal stem to grace pathways, front entry or backyard flowerbeds.

Other lighting alternatives we came across include:

Coverall Stone's Basalt Column Lights are unique pieces of geological art: handcrafted to make one-of-a-kind landscape and pathway lights.

Also from Coverall Stone, the Up-lit Basalt uses submersible lights at the base of a basalt column water feature. www.coverallstone.com

Designed to illuminate steps and paths, Intense Lighting's LED V-Rail aluminum and stainless steel rail system features integrated LED lighting and posts that are two inches in diameter. According to the manufacturer, the V-Rail consumes 45 percent less energy than the competition and delivers more than double the average foot-candles. www.intenselighting.com

This illuminated, retractable bollard is manufactured by Paez-Fletcher Co. of Miami, Fla. It comes in different colors and is being used in installations across Spain. www.pfccontrols.com