Studio Rueff

Nightlights

Nightlights should do more than just light your way to keep you from stubbing your toes in the dark. So, raise your nightlight game with the warm and sometimes philosophical glow of a Studio Rueff nightlight.

You say you didn’t know you even had a “nightlight game”?

Well, you do. And this is how you raise it.

There exists in Nature a special number that shows up pretty much everywhere. It is known as the “Golden Ratio” and you can find it in everything from the structures of nautilus shells to the shapes of hurricanes and spiral galaxies.

The ancient Greeks considered a rectangle based on its proportions to be the most pleasing to the eye. And the 16th-century friar, Luca Pacioli, considered it part of the language that God built in to the universe, so he included it in his treatise, “Divina Proportione” in 1509.

Here, the central body of the nightlight is a Golden Rectangle. So is every part that’s left when you take away a square.

It’s enough to make a mathematician chuckle with delight. And often do you get the chance to do that!

Sometimes, Life hands you disjointed pieces and says, “Okay, let’s see you make something of that, if you can.” And you’re not allowed to hand them back and say, “I don’t have time.”

The challenge then is to not only fit them together but to fashion them into a gorgeous, unified whole.

And when you do exactly that, maybe even surprising yourself in the process—and you’re ready to give Life the middle finger and deliver a great “So there!”—you notice that Life is smiling back at you, beaming, actually … so proud of what you’ve done.

It turns out She knew you had it in you all along.

Like its siblings, the “Majestic” and “Radiance” nightlights, this piece pays loving tribute to the Art Deco style from the early 20th century.

Each “Eminence” nightlight employs three complementary shades of glass in its primary color, gently angled edge pieces, and antique-copper-patina solder lines for a heritage feel.

Perfect for any living or working space that could benefit from a glowing bit of existential “Yes!”

(In multiple color schemes when available.)

This nightlight honors the gas giant exoplanet “51 Pegasi b” (a.k.a. “Dimidium”) discovered in the constellation Pegasus by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz in 1995. In fact, it happens to be a completely accurate representation of the planet, including its two large equatorial bands and largest moon, “Freddy.”

Prove me wrong.

You can find this exact nightlight near the checkout counter of every convenience store on Dimidium. But why spend trillions of dollars to build a spaceship that will take centuries to get there and back just to retrieve an original when you can get this authorized reproduction right here on Earth?

Exactly.

Designed to add a soupçon of Art Deco theatricality to any room, this nightlight is a beautiful tribute to a classic art and architectural style from the early 20th century.

Each Majestic nightlight employs complementary shades of glass in its primary color, as well as antique-copper-patina solder lines for a heritage feel.

Perfect for any space that could use a little timeless Art Deco pop.

And when your friends ooh and ahh about it (which they will), tell them you installed it “to add a soupçon of Art Deco theatricality to the room.” Oh, the looks you’ll get.

(In multiple color schemes when available.) 

When it comes to style, there’s “cool” and then there’s “I-own-a-frigging-stained-glass-Op-Art-nightlight!” cool. Punch your ticket to that lofty level with the “Op Arthur” nightlight from Studio Rueff.

Carefully crafted to create the illusion of a ballooning sphere, this nightlight pays homage to the Op Art movement of the 1960s and its love of tricking the eye to perceive three-dimensions where there are actually only two. It also honors that movement’s embrace of negative space—because even negative space could use a hug now and then.

Perfect for wherever you or your family or guests go to turn on, tune in, or drop out.

And no, of course you don’t need to prove how cool you are—everybody gets it. But a little visual reminder never hurts.

Like its Art Deco sibling, “Majestic,” this nightlight pays loving homage to the classic art and architectural style from the early 20th century.

Each “Radiance” nightlight employs three complementary shades of glass in its primary color, as well as antique-copper-patina solder lines for a heritage feel.

As we said, nightlights can be about so much more than just keeping you from stubbing your toe in the dark. Here’s beautiful proof.

(In multiple color schemes, when available.)

The word “stacks” means different things to different people. For some, it means orderly piles of precious things that can be laid atop one another, like indie-band DVDs. For others, it connotes an area of the library where one goes to spend hours exploring obscure texts and getting lost in the wonder of learning deeper truths. These are the type of people who say that “one” does something and that use the word “connote.”

No matter your personal definition, each of these one-of-a-kind nightlights pays brilliant and colorful homage to the idea of “the stacks.” And just to be literary, they’re named after famous authors, because why the heck not! (This one is Dickinson.)