Thoro Lighting

Thoro lighting brings together metal light fixtures with clean lines: pendants, wall lights, ceiling lights, chandeliers and floor lamps, mostly in steel and black. Count the family before the room: a pendant lights a table surface, a wall light lights a wall, a ceiling light lights the centre of a room.

What is the Thoro brand and what is in its range?

Thoro is a brand of metal light fixtures with clean lines, divided into pendants, wall lights, chandeliers, ceiling lights and floor lamps. The dominant styles are modern and minimalist, with a few Scandinavian and industrial pieces. Steel and aluminium make up most of the models, often in black, sometimes in white or grey.

Pendants, wall lights, chandeliers and ceiling lights: the families in the range

The pendant comes first: it sits above a table, an island or a living area, and the large formats go up to 140 cm wide to cover the whole length of a rectangular surface. Then come the wall lights, long and narrow, which draw a line of light on a wall. Chandeliers and ceiling lights occupy the centre of the room, floor lamps place a supplementary light on the floor. To place each family, browse the Designix lighting collection.

Metal light fixtures designed for understated interiors

An exposed steel structure, simple shapes, a black dominance: these pieces suit interiors where materials read as they are, pale wood, concrete, plaster. The metal holds the line, the light does the rest. That is what makes the range easy to repeat from one room to the next, without a cluttered effect. Find these models in our selection of metal light fixtures.

Pendant, wall light, ceiling light or chandelier: which Thoro family to choose?

A pendant lights a table surface or an island, a wall light lights a wall or a hallway, a ceiling light lights the centre of a room, a chandelier structures a living room and a floor lamp places a supplementary light on the floor. The choice depends on what you want to light, not on the size of the room.

What a pendant above a table changes

Placed on the axis of the table, the pendant concentrates light where you eat and leaves the rest of the room softer. The ESKOLA 140 black pendant covers a large rectangular surface, its 70 cm version suits a round table. Both work with an E27 socket.

Lighting a wall rather than the ceiling

A wall light usefully replaces a ceiling light in a hallway: it guides your steps without dazzling. The VALO wall light, long and discreet stays discreet on the wall, with integrated warm white. Above a sofa or a bed, prefer the wall light to the ceiling light so as not to catch the source in your line of sight.

In which room should you install a Thoro light fixture?

In this selection, the living room and the bedroom are the best covered rooms, followed by the dining room, the kitchen and the hallway. Each family has its place: wall light and floor lamp in passages, pendant and chandelier above the table surface, ceiling light for central lighting.

Living room and dining room: composing a line above the table surface

A wide chandelier or a long pendant placed on the axis of the table gives a readable room, where the eye follows a single line. The RIO 110 chandelier in warm white measures 110 cm in diameter and structures a large living room as well as an open dining room; its 78 cm version suits more compact rooms.

Bedroom and hallway: a soft light for the evening

In a bedroom, a wall light on either side of the bed replaces bedside lamps and frees the surface of the bedside table. The TRANG floor lamp in warm white stands in a corner or at the entrance, for a supplementary light at reading height. See the light fixtures for the living room and dining room.

Which socket and which light temperature to choose?

The range mixes integrated LED, E27 socket and GU10 socket. With integrated LED, the power and colour temperature are set by the fixture; with E27 or GU10, you choose the bulb. The temperatures noted range from warm white 2700 - 3500 K to neutral white 3500 - 4500 K.

Integrated LED, E27 or GU10: what it changes in use

Integrated LED simplifies everything: nothing to buy, nothing to match, the fixture lights as it is. This is the case with the RIO chandelier in its 78 cm version, announced in warm white. The E27 socket on the other hand leaves you in control of power and shade, as on the ESKOLA 70 ceiling light, 70 cm square and mounted on the ceiling. GU10 aims for a more directional beam: the KUKKIA pendant with a GU10 socket can be composed at several adjustable points.

Warm white or neutral white depending on the room

Around 3000 K, the light leans towards amber: it flatters wood, matt paint and fabrics, and relaxes in the evening. In a living room as in a bedroom, this warm white is the usual reference. Above 3500 K, the white becomes more neutral, whiter: it suits a kitchen, a worktop or a hallway where you want to read colours without warming them. The advice applies to a given room, not to the whole home: in one area, keep a single temperature.

What materials, shapes and colours are in the range?

Steel dominates, aluminium completes, a few pieces play with wood or concrete and a minority uses plastic, particularly on floor lamps. Black is the most present colour, followed by white, then grey, with beige and green on some references. The shapes rest on simple geometries: tube, oval, round, ring, square.

Steel and aluminium, the base of the range

Steel holds the structure and keeps the edge of a fine line. Aluminium lightens large diameters, useful when the fixture comes down to eye level: the lighter material is less noticeable above a table. Compare these finishes in the pendants and wall lights to compare.

Black, white, grey: which finishes to choose

Black blends into a dark room and stands out on a pale wall: in both cases it stays readable. White fades into the ceiling, which suits when you want light without a visible object. Grey plays an intermediate role, valuable between concrete walls and wooden furniture. On a large chandelier, white or beige weighs visually less than black.

How to match several Thoro light fixtures in the same room?

Matching is played out on the repetition of shapes and shades: taking the same family in two formats, for example a pendant above the table and its ceiling light in the centre of the room, gives a coherent whole. One strong piece per area is enough, the rest accompanies.

Playing the same family in several formats

Repeating a model in two dimensions produces a safer whole than a mix of styles. The ESKOLA 70 ceiling light on the ceiling and a pendant from the same family above the table are enough to hold the room. See also browse the lighting range to spot the variants of the same series.

Mixing pendant and wall light without overloading

Two families, no more, in the same area. The KUKKIA pendant with a GU10 socket and the KUKKIA wall light in compact format share the same handwriting and the same black dominance: the whole stays coherent without becoming repetitive. Keep the same white temperature on both, otherwise the mix shows. To broaden your search, consult the complete lighting catalogue.

How to install and maintain a Thoro light fixture?

A pendant is placed above the axis of the table, at a height that leaves the view free between the guests and the fixture. For maintenance, a soft slightly damp cloth is enough on steel and aluminium. Always cut the power before changing a bulb or cleaning a wall light.

At what height should you hang a pendant above a table?

In general, the bottom of the fixture is placed around 75 to 85 cm above the tabletop, that is about 140 to 150 cm from the floor: high enough to meet the eye of the person across the table, low enough for the light to fall on the plates. The pendants in the range go up to 150 cm of cable height, which leaves room to adjust. Align the fixture on the axis of the table, never on that of the room if the two differ.

Cleaning a black steel light fixture

A soft microfibre cloth, slightly damp, then a wipe to avoid marks. No abrasive, no solvent: they dull the finish. Switch off the circuit before any intervention, including dusting a diffuser. On a model with a bulb, the bulb is replaced without any special tool.

Why choose a Thoro light fixture at Designix?

Designix distributes the Thoro range with secure payment, tracked delivery, returns and customer service, and the selection is guaranteed for 5 years. The online catalogue lets you compare formats, sockets and colour temperatures before ordering.

5-year guarantee and help with your choice

Customer service helps you decide between two formats or two white temperatures, the most frequent question at the time of choice. If you hesitate between 70 and 140 cm wide above a table, your room configuration decides. Browse all the light fixtures in the home then compare two references side by side.

Secure payment, tracked delivery and returns

Payment is secure, delivery is tracked and returns are possible. A piece received does not keep the promise of the table surface, a format seems too large once installed: you send it back. See our selection of metal light fixtures to prepare your order.

One last reference point before ordering: note the length of your table, the ceiling height and the desired bulb shade. These three values are enough to choose among the pendants in the range. Find everything in the Designix lighting collection.

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