Ethnic Style

Tips for buying lights and creating your own ethnic style

The ethnic style is inspired by world cultures, fusing spaces that reflect their essence through handcrafted and genuine decorative elements. With tribal, ethnic and exotic touches, this mix of elements of different origins are the main attraction of this trendy style.

The best way of understanding it is to run through the different aspects you should bear in mind to create your own ethnic lighting that will cover ceilings, walls and floors to capture every room with its own personality:

• Materials. Natural fibres like bamboo, rattan, weaved paper combine with wood, wrought iron or malleable metals, and even with natural raw materials like feathers or fabrics to achieve fascinating results.
• Colours. The ethnic style is closely linked to the roots of the different cultures so earthy colours like browns, blacks, reds, oranges, yellows or neutral colours of natural undyed fabrics predominate.
• Lighting. As far as possible, natural light from windows is always favoured. In the same sense, artificial light should be as natural as possible, avoiding bright lights. You can combine ethnic style lights with retro lights and wooden ceiling lights. Don’t forget to scatter different points of warm lighting to illuminate and highlight decorative elements around your rooms.
• Vegetation. Given that we are talking about a style which is closely linked to the earth, there simply has to be evergreen plants. Another style of light that usually combines well are boho chic lights.