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Sun through a latticed window falls on a periwinkle wall and runs across the floor as rows of small rounded lights. The upper panes are plain glass, so the light there is whole.
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Lattice Light

No. 15 of 50 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeSun through a latticed window falls on a periwinkle wall and runs across the floor as rows of small rounded lights. The upper panes are plain glass, so the light there is whole.

What it meansA mashrabiya breaks hard sun into hundreds of small openings, cooling a room and making a moving pattern of light through the day. It has been used in houses across the Arab world for centuries.

Where it worksA calm, patterned print for a hallway, a landing or a bedroom.

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A round window fitted with an iron grille of eight-point stars throws its pattern on a deep green wall, as a soft disc of light pierced with small bright stars.Star LightNo. 16
A tall rectangle of sun falls on a soft periwinkle wall, and across it the clean shadow of a single date-palm frond. Nothing else is in the room.Palm ShadowNo. 17
Two pointed windows cast twin arches of sun on a periwinkle wall, divided by glazing bars and crossed by leaf shadow. A potted palm stands between them on a cool tiled floor.Two ArchesNo. 18
A brass ewer stands on a pale table in a horseshoe-shaped patch of morning sun, with jasmine shadows on the sage wall behind it.Morning EwerNo. 19
A cream bowl heaped with lemons sits in a round-arched patch of sun on a periwinkle wall and table, crossed by the shadow of a lemon branch.Lemons in the LightNo. 20
A brass watering can and a pot of seedlings stand on a tiled floor in a long slant of sun from a pointed window. Fig leaves throw their shadows across the light on the deep green wall.Watering CanNo. 21
Low evening sun through a horseshoe-arched window lays a long warm arch of light up a deep blue-grey wall and across the floor, crossed by the shadow of a palm frond.Evening LightNo. 22
A brass dallah and two small cups stand on a pale table in a slanting patch of sun from a pointed window, with jasmine shadows on the soft green wall.Dallah in the LightNo. 23

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