CONTEMPORARY LIGHTING FOR A BORDER OAK HOME WITH VAULTED CEILINGS Explore this fantastic Border Oak property that is packed full of our Contemporary lighting collection. This new build showcased a huge selection of modern industrial fittings throughout. These had been recommended by our very own lighting designers to accentuate the atmosphere of the space. Fritz Fryer’s […]
CAN I USE ANTIQUE-STYLE PENDANT LIGHTS IN A MODERN HOME? Absolutely. At Fritz Fryer, we’ve been lighting specialists since 1982, and we understand that great lighting should reflect both personality and design sensibility, whether you’re in a Georgian townhouse or a contemporary new build.In this blog, we explore how antique and vintage-style pendants can bring […]
THE VALLEY COLLECTION You may already know, but we are proud of our heritage here at Fritz Fryer Lighting. So much so that every handmade light we make, we also name after a town or village here in Herefordshire. For example, the county town here is Hereford, the name of our ever popular glass globe […]
Are you looking for a new statement light to illuminate your hallway? Meet our contemporary take on a classic Georgian hall lantern that will have you turning up the light on your ‘warm welcome’ in no time. In the Georgian era with heavy taxes on glass and candles, luxurious lighting became the ultimate status symbol, […]
WHEN TWO DESIGNERS MEET When Fritz Fryer director Simon Wallis-Smith first discovered glass artist, Alice Heaton’s work when visiting Leeds University, it was an instant ‘ah ha!’ moment. ‘I was instantly drawn to the vivid colours and her organic vision of blown sculptural pieces,’ he says. ‘There was a gap in our expanding collection of table lamps […]
We were approached by an existing customer to create a bespoke piece of lighting using the Aston Lantern to illuminate the dining room in their ski chalet in the gorgeous setting of Haute Savoie in the Alps. Our starting point was to get the dimensions of the dining table and the ceiling height of the space which […]
As we are currently in the throws of the cricket Ashes series, the Fritz Fryer team thought it a great opportunity to introduce you to a fab little glass shade called the Pixley. So, for the purposes of work I decided I’d need to shed some light on this baffling but completely addictive, quintessentially British […]
Recently, kitchen designers, TaylorMade By Stanton based in Herefordshire, completed a project using Fritz Fryer pendant lights here in our home town of Ross-on-Wye. The homeowners came along to the showroom to view our handmade lighting in the flesh and fell in love with the Ledbury family of lights. The simple dome glass shades make the perfect addition to […]
Let us introduce you to the newest additions in the Fritz Fryer collection; The Flush to wall Grafton Globe light and The Flush to ceiling Grafton Globe Light. Flush to ceiling lights do not tend to have a great reputation for style and quality, so as lighting specialists, the design team at Fritz Fryer decided it was […]
https://youtu.be/BVSIIKQ2LEk THE CUSTOMISABLE GRAFTON GLOBE PENDANT LIGHT Inspired by the complex mechanisms of timekeeping and the fascination of the intricate motion of clockwork, his obsession with carefully engineered objects provided the foundation for Simon’s next project – the Grafton Globe. Around 1704 English clock makers George Graham and Thomas Tompion built the first modern Orrery; a […]
