WALL LIGHTS have their place. The wall, obviously, but also a role in visually reducing the scale of a high ceiling, creating intimacy, fine-tuning an ambience or providing unobtrusive functional light (those ubiquitous snakey LED reading lights in hotel rooms). They have a whiff of the domestic about them but that is why they translate well to leisure environments such as restaurants, and to receptions and waiting areas where they introduce a residential and therefore relaxing note. They are occasionally eccentric bordering on bonkers – the magenta polyresin wild boar glimpsed on a net trawl is perhaps best glossed over – as the wall’s association with art is enough to tip them over into the territory between function and frivolity. Sometimes, though, they really pull off the sculptural with style. And as the following new luminaires show, they can be capable of versatility, drama and mesmirising lighting effects.