House Lights by Alice Lane: Vintage-Inspired Lighting & Timeless Details

0:00Hello everyone, welcome to Dear Alice. Today we are going to be taking you behind the scenes of our brand new collection that just launched Monday called House lights. lights these are a set of lighting that we've been working on in our own product development designed by the house for you guys and I cannot wait these are scene changers really really excited for you guys to get your hands on these and to get them home it's been a really personal collection too Suzanne and I both installed these lights in our house and we're actually shooting our houses for this launch so the launch just went live Monday when you're looking at them that's that's how we live and we wanted these for the way that we live so it's felt really personal I'm just so excited to be able to break it down it's really four lights in the collection but we've done each of the lights in different sizes so the collection is about seven pieces big and I think they're going to make a huge impact in your spaces in in small spaces or even bigger spaces we've got some really large scale flush mounts we've got some tiny flush mounts which is one of our favorite design tricks, a new baby lamp in the collection, and a really cool sconce.

1:07So let's get into it. Okay. Maybe before we do, I was thinking just since it's a new year, we can like give them a little sneak peek on some other launches we have in the future, like maybe the new classics one and some of our favorite pieces from them. Yes. So much to look forward to in 2026. We've been working hard at so many things for years and years, and they're all just starting to finally come in and we've been sitting in prototypes and and sitting in final pieces and flying over there and sitting and stuff and rearranging things so yeah for sure what are some of the ones that you're excited about the cocoon swivel that one took such a long time the mechanism is very unique on it it's a swivel rocker it was like back and forth and then side to side as well every man male client of every design project has requested this thing yes maybe that's why everybody wants movement and just like to be able to do do both you can't usually find a swivel rocker that doesn't look like an old lady slip covered um situation for a nursery exactly so that's what's so exciting about this it feels yeah iconic hey very cool thank you and i'm maybe most proud of the fabric on it because it is next level.

2:25We had that sample made like four or five different times, I think, and went from fabric to fabric. And I'm glad where we landed. Super excited about that one. Yeah, me too. How about you, Jess? We have two center hall tables coming out for you. We've only ever had the James table, I think, since we started creating furniture back in 2019. So coming out of the gate with two brand new center hall tables is really great. Spoiler alert we've got a lucas center hall table center halls are a little bit taller than a dining table by two inches it just gets it where you need it in an entryway and then we're about 48 inches round and then we have a really beautiful octagonal one with a really pretty gold inlay it's kind of this pretty sort of chalky french greenish grayish color that just looks so stately i think anywhere you put it whatever style you are so the center halls i think are going to be so fun and fun for ALID to have center halls because I know so many of the entries we do.

3:22We love that tricks snuggled up against a staircase or right in the foyer. They're so easy to use. They are so easy. And like, you know, we love to style. So it's just one more service versus style. It's so true. Yes, I love it. It's so true. We've got a mid-century pink slipper chair coming. Yeah. Really gorgeous. I'm so excited about that. Yeah. Some new chagrin trays. Anyway, look forward to that. We're going to be launching what we're calling the new classics in February. Yeah. Coming soon in a little less than a month from now. Yeah. Yeah. Three to four weeks. I think what's so exciting about like, not only like looking forward to that, but what we're going to talk about today, house lights and all of our collections, honestly, are so inspired by like how we live now, how we design now, but also just reminiscent of like what we've loved from the past and what has been iconic in the past and trying to like marry the two that's what I'm so excited because when I look at house lights I feel like the one for our caviar light we picked that up how many years ago Sue and I love to go on a little vintage treasure hunt whenever we go shopping really anywhere and I found this little old-fashioned light and I don't even know what era it would have been out of but it was this little squared off sconce it looked like you would just hang it on a nail I'm call it the 20s probably the 20s yeah and we were able to take an idea and then riff off of it and come up with something that we would use today which turned into being a huge flush mount yeah because it's frustrating when you're looking for a flush mount to find something that's 12 inches round for an entire room i mean bedrooms used to be 10 by 10 but they're bigger now and you need bigger flush mounts and so we actually went about 17 inches on this thing it's it's about one and a half times larger than what most people are going to give you and getting the glass right took a really long time just to be able to sculpt glass like this and it's it resembles almost like bubbles and even the glass has sort of an amber cast to it and and a slight iridescence and suz is living with it in her bedroom nice yeah it's so beautiful yeah it's yeah the caviar collection in general is ridiculous and honestly before i don't know if we want to like keep going with the caviar i was just going to say just about the whole collection i think about our design projects which are huge you know but every home has little petite spaces large spaces that need and so I'm so glad not only did we do something original but we did something in multiple scales I can't think of a house that wouldn't take these lights beautifully and originally yeah which is really exciting I think for a light and honestly like for us it was fun to experiment I live in a 1971 cowboy house you know with eight foot ceilings and my houses every time I keep adding and you and I both lived with antiques and antique lights that we just installed just for our own like love of the game and merit so just to be able to offer that to people is just it's so gratifying that we're creating something so original but so steeped in something historic I'm excited for you guys to see it all and get it in your homes because I know I've loved living within mine let's keep going on that caviar let's pull up should we just show them we'll show them both of them yeah yeah just small or big i'll hold the small if you'll hold the big yeah if you guys are tuning in obviously on youtube or um spotify you're going to see this if not we're going to describe it for you if you're wherever else you get your podcasts so the caviar light we wanted to do this beautiful brass bullnose edge that would give it some relief off the ceiling because these are flush mounts i love it when a flush mount really projects down into the space and so giving ourselves this really big beautiful almost two inch solid brass bullnose like that is just so stunning and then you can see that pretty amber iridescent glow it really does feel like a little kid dipped his stick in his bubbles and started to blow it's just so beautiful um i know when i put it up like this it's reflecting the lights from the podcast but up on the ceiling suzy you just painted your bedroom ceiling if you want to take people on that journey we'll put some of the images up on the screen of your bedroom we installed the large caviar flush mount on suze's ceiling we painted our room of this really moody like cinnamony color and what glass and crystal does like against dark color is it like exaggerates the shadows and so when you get a shape like this like the everlasting gobstopper caviar gorgeous moment i really feel the pillowing of these bubbles on my ceiling and it just like casts the most beautiful light and I love I love colored glass we've I feel like we've collected more of that than anything just because there's something about that transparency of just like seeing like into something that's just like this grand reveal of like the space feels larger it feels more magical there's a mystique to it and that's what I feel in my bedroom and I have it in the large and it is perfect it is so perfect and I love I love going to sleep looking at that and I love waking up looking at that I can't wait to figure out where I'm gonna let you because you're so cute when you held it up vertically all these like you can use them as a flesh mount yep but you can also use them as sconce totally this would be so great I'm like why have we not done that an entry mirror in a hallway or yeah I can't wait to see we're going down a hallway like how iconic are you that would be amazing in between doors also I love the trick when you use a mini flesh mount instead of a cam light you can easily make Like that update in like maybe you have sort of a primary closet would be great.

8:48A hallway to a closet would be amazing. Or if you have a smaller hallway like you have, we replaced two lights with the flush mounts coming up. But I love the small size for that. I think lighting is getting so smart with monopoints and small flush mounts like this and just more charming than a can light. I was thinking when we were trying to figure out where should we put these above your sink in that little spot sandwich between two cabinets. it and again whenever you have that textured glass it just puts off the coolest lights and shadows yes so and where we did end up shooting this for the install was in uh one of our designer maddie she painted her little tiny potty closet oxblood put this mini flush mount in there and it looks so good she also used our new red mod sconce um flanking the mirrors that's her crush So designer, so pretty.

9:39We'll put those pictures on screen right now so you can see how that turned out. But this is the caviar flush mount in two sizes. Big, beautiful, bold, two inch brass bullnose, really gorgeous textured glass. I cannot wait for you guys to experience these, get them home. If you're to the trade to get to use these in projects, they're available now. And this is the caviar. One thing added to that before we move on, I love that we kept the DNA of Ace and Alice too on that bullnose. And so it kind of just feels cohesive, feels Alice Lane. So super proud of these. The best bracelet stack, y 'all. Totally.

10:13And I will say of house lights, that is the one piece that you'll see repeated throughout the collection. There'll be a bullnose on the mod sconce. There's a double bullnose on the Alice. We'll get into those next. Should we talk about the red mod sconce? Let's do it. Let's do it. So you guys know the mod sconce. We've done it in brass. And then we came out with a double armed mod sconce because you guys all wanted a double of it. We wanted to pay a little homage to Jean Royer, French designer from 1902. He lived from 1902 to 1981. And we love his work. It is modernism. It is whimsy. And he just really had this way of, I just think, making iconic interiors.

10:57and we wanted to get our hands on a red sconce and we can't do it. We couldn't do it anywhere. If you do get so lucky to find a pair at auction, they will take up your entire lighting budget for your whole house. So we thought it would be fun to take our own spin on it and create a red sconce to pay homage to him. And this is the mod sconce in red. I love how this turned out. You can see that bullnose edge around it. We've got a really steep shade in linen, off-white linen on top. And so chic. I just installed these in my home office. We also just installed it in a little dark moody powder bath.

11:33This is going to be iconic in any interior. I could not be more excited. Gosh. And this color, it's like this almost that tomatoey red too. It's not just like a true, like a ruby red or anything, but it goes with anything. Like even in branding, when you put this color, like highlight anything in this color, it just like makes it come alive. And that's what this color does for interiors. I tell you I put red in a room and it's like it it's the star every time and so and I don't know I love I think one thing that he was so good at is just he was playful you know and I think that this adds something that's just like is is playful to an interior so we don't get too serious I agree life is too short it is too short too stuffy when you're like I want to know their story like you know you're going to get compliments on the sconces when you come in it's like that signature red lip that you have.

12:21You get compliments on it all day. You can now get this in your home. You get a lot of credit. Yeah. You have real tired eyes, but you have a red lip. Yeah. You have a real messy room, but you have a red sconce. Yeah. You win. So good. So good. I love the mod sconce. I do too. What is the color called? Like just the modern red? Remember what Benmore color we used? Merlot red, but it is slightly different than that because we, yeah, we zhuzhed it up a little bit, changed it a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. I love it. It oddly took probably over a year to get the red right, sending the prototypes back and forth and just trying to make sure and land it.

12:59But it does feel very iconic. It feels very Loewe to me with, you know, that whole collection he did with the tomatoes. I wanted to call it tomato red, but then they were saying it would be very rare to call it flag red, which was kind of fun because if you think about the French flag, there's red in it. Also, American flag is in it. but at the end of the day I was like I don't want to call it tomato or merlot or we all see red so differently and I do feel like this is iconic and it's fresh without being too mature yeah yeah and it's it's on the nose yeah exactly you guys I got a great idea for valentine's this season let's hear it well cozy earth is offering bogo pajama deal did you know this no way they've never done it before.

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15:33And it has been everybody's favorite lamp. And so we thought, why don't we give the people what they want and make Penny the best seller and make her body in Calcutta Viola. So we sampled it and loved it. And we thought, yep, we're going to do it. We're going to make that available in not just one, but both sizes, a penny. We make it in alabaster in just the large. We make it in brass in just the small. We make it in crystal in both sizes. And we are making this in both sizes. We're so bold. we are a real brass beautiful body under the neck you can see and finial and then we've got a linen shade and this beautiful unpolished marble it's so stunning I've got this on my secretary at home I'm tempted to take it off of that and put it in my kitchen I've got the large one sitting on my Beatrice brass etiger in my bathroom I want to steal it for other areas of the house it is so classically beautiful that little height lives perfectly on a backsplash underneath the kitchen counters it can live in small areas big areas grand piano I mean where would you put this Suze on a project gosh you already said this in the kitchen like I have the Athena and the Viola kitchen but I'm like maybe I want this in my kitchen I'm gonna move Athena somewhere else so kitchen for sure I think too I have a penny lamp and I want to replace it with this actually on my tv console because I have like stacks of books we have a tv obviously but you can put a little lamp there and not have it be obstructive and like people ask about that all the time and it just like I have that on it's like a little nightlight all the time so I think on a long console um I love it on a desk love it on a desk so much yeah I could put this anywhere I have mine and on on a little side table that we have we have a small mud hall that we enter in 95 of the time I just love having a little light on there at night I don't have the kitchen lights on just that one is that room's adjacent to it so just love the glow of that and obviously like this marble is bananas so love it.

17:36I think one thing that's really nice about all of the pieces in the collection is that they all have this sort of soft globe shape or half globe or bullnose these soft shapes or the bubbles these soft shapes are really what I feel like so many rooms need there's so many straight lines in a house we've seen curves come really into fashion and I think we're going to see this orb shape for a lot of time to come. It's just so nice just taking the edge off. I also have my large crystal penny in my mud haul on a little chest that is always on. I leave it on around the clock and it is just a like little beautiful punctuation mark in that space and I really love the softness that it brings, the soft light.

18:17It just feels and looks like home. This is just big big fashion points for the viola. Not all of us can afford to replace our countertops right now I know if we could a lot of us would love to do something a little bit more just remarkable and wild and look fashionable but this is a way to get that hit whether it be at your makeup vanity or your back hallway or in your kitchen so this is the penny lamp available in both sizes and just launched Monday can't wait for you guys to get these fun every one of them are different so I love a wild card y 'all I love a grab bag because I'm like you get it and like you open it up and it's like it was made for you you know it's so individually yours exactly I'm like that one has like you know they're the veinings closer to each other so you feel more of that but then you have the white space on the little one anyway I just I'm obsessed with and like I need both of them yeah I need both yeah they're so good okay the last one in our collection this is our Alice flush mount we have an Alice sconce and it has a single bullnose with an alabaster center and we started saying gosh we could grow that collection and we could do a flush mount but alabaster has become so so extremely rare and expensive to get that we're like how could we keep these in check cost-wise for people and make it really really big I think we did a great job doing this we thought let's do white glass and let's do the double bullnose and this is the result this is a really beautiful steep dome that double bracelet of a bullnose oh so good sue hall you are living with the small alice two of these in your hallway yes how's it going i love them i don't know like and i didn't even know i needed them so badly again i'd been like i moved into this house i stripped it of all of its ugly lighting i've been living with light bulbs i'm just like okay cool artists whatever and i have these tom like we have both we have two little two of these and we have all this art just like lining the hallway and you like look up all of a sudden I feel my ceiling I didn't really feel it before I kind of just like ignored it it's not too grand like there's something so sweet about the humble with all these oils and paintings and storytellers you know that it just it gets along with everybody but it has a cool vibe and a cool mood that it feels at home yeah it feels really really at home I love these I think and we're always talking about just like design projects in general like what are things that like we're always looking for I'm always looking for a creative flesh mount because every home needs them we need them in potty closets we need them you know down hallways we need them in mud rooms you know just anywhere we need like a spotlight that I don't want to put a can I need something that's not going to be competing with everything else we all have collections and so this was such I didn't realize how easy and like but also it has an opinion it's not like void of like personality at all and so to have these like with my collection it just it feels right at home it feels like something I would have found you know on Cherish or First Dibs um which is my favorite hunt and so I love that we're bringing that to people I do too love how that turned out and then the big one the big one you just barely put in your boys um bedroom i did this is massive we're about 17 inches big girl across in this and it is huge it really lights up the room how many light bulbs were in that one three three yeah just like your standard e yeah 26 bulbs these are fun too because in my boys room i'm a color drenched like we're blue on the ceiling blue on the walls so it's really fun you really feel the brass and that white dome in there like during the day i love going in there in the morning and seeing it and I love turning it on at night.

21:58You know, oh, I just, yeah, they're so cool. They feel iconic. And it's just that vintage, that old school cool, man. It just is everything. Yeah, and playful. And I love having a soft shape in a room where there's a lot of the straight lines and it just sort of evokes a real feeling projecting into the space and that double bullnose you really get credit for. You do. Yeah. The white glass too, I think is so iconic because I have pulled that for so many homes and we've ordered it for so many homes. where it just is something that is just like reminiscent of the past it's interesting not competitive but just has a vibe to it and like we have it in a really great scale yeah it's not too narrow yeah diameter is like awesome yeah that's it i mean that is the lighting collection the alice in both sizes you can replace those cam lights you can use a flush mount i think it's such a cool way especially those eight foot ceilings we need we need you guys there's so many people with eight foot ceilings where you need a flush mount you don't have enough space to be able to come too far down into it without hitting your head and I think these look so iconic in in your house that's what you've been seeing on the screen today is Suzanne's spaces and then also Maddie's beautiful powder bath I've got the penny lamps at my house so it's been fun to get to take you guys inside the collection any final words Corey on this I'm forgetting to tell them about this always happens with every launch we have limited quantities of all of them and they all sell out and then I'm in a mad dash to like you know get them back in stock so get them while you can and yeah enjoy them yeah for sure for sure well thanks so much you guys for tuning in if you have any questions for us just send those to dear alice at alicelanehome.com or if there's an episode idea that you wish that we'd cover send those in as well make sure and give us a follow on Instagram.

23:50We are at Alice Lane Home on Instagram. That's our store side and all the product that we're making and at Alice Lane Interiors for the custom homes that we're designing. Yeah. Check out the new collection. It's called House Lights on alicelanehome.com. Why did you call it House Lights? Good question. Yeah. Because I felt like it'd be fun to call it House Lights because the house designed the lights. Oh, so often we've specified lighting from other people's lines and now we're designing the lights. So we thought it'd be fun to call it house lights also you know when you go to a production and they say can I get the house lights on yep yep I thought that was fun and I think anything going forward can move into the house lights collection because they were designed by the house yeah for you yeah last little plug is I also installed the Lulu sconces in my room you're gonna see that yes but it also works so beautifully together you know they're not the same like they were introduced at the same time but they are all part of the house lights collection and they all live really harmoniously together so So yeah, I love that.

24:50Also, do you remember how fun the house candy collection was? Gosh, house lights. We just couldn't resist. I know. Yeah, I love that. Check it out on alicelanehome.com. Thanks so much for tuning in, you guys. We'll catch you next time.

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