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72 Landscape Architect and Specifier News Above, Left & Right For this Palmdale, Calif., home the lighting designer added ol' West styling with a rustic cottage and weathered lanterns lighting the steppingstones and walls. The lanterns have an amber cast to filter the 4-watt leds. Right & Inset For the driveway of this Calabasas, Calif., home, the lighting designer placed 4-watt leds in urn path lights with hand-blown glass lamps in an amber hue on 14-inch copper stems. Candle light kits with 12-watt bulbs accent the tops of the pillars. The urn lighting and candle light kits are manufacture by lightcraft outdoor. setting can sometimes create a jarring effect. However, Williams has managed to design professional-grade outdoor lighting that preserves and enhances the harmony of a landscape design. With a keen appreciation for textures and anything out of the ordinary, Williams' designs reflect a strong collaboration with the ideas and aesthetics of his favorite heroes – Frank Lloyd Wright, Cliff May, and John Muir. The collection offers a truly "romantic" garden lighting that will add a distinct and dramatic feel to any landscape design. Nick Williams has created a line of cutting-edge outdoor lighting products with a focus on new, emerging "green energy" technology that is both economical and sustainable, designed to integrate seamlessly into any landscape. Years of experience in landscape design has enabled him to create something that would stand up to the test of time, while offering crafted and elegant shapes and designs that are as beautiful in daylight as they are in the evening hours, when they cast their own soft glow. Candles in the Wind Candles have graced human living space for generations, casting their warm soothing glow, and while no longer practical as primary lighting, particularly outdoors, they still retain mood enhancing qualities. The Candle Group, a new line of products, offer creative combinations of resin, brass, stainless steel and copper to create facsimiles of candles that suit a variety of needs. Candle pathway lights are 12-volt lights on fourteen-inch stems used for lighting walkways. Candle wall mounts are 12-volt lights that are mounted to accent and light wall areas. (Continued on page 74) 70-75.indd 72 3/28/14 4:24 PM