Robers
Westphalia, Germany
Hand-forged wrought iron, made between hammer and forge. Heavy sections, the marks of the tools still visible, finishes that age rather than fail.
Suits Tudor Revival · English Country · rustic estates and gatehouses
Terra Lumi · Augsburg, Germany · since 2008
European Originals for American homes & gardens
Handcrafted outdoor lighting from small European workshops, most of them not yet represented in the United States. Matched to Tudor Revival, Mediterranean Revival, Colonial and the other American styles with European roots, and shipped across the Atlantic since 2008.
Why source from Europe
The architecture crossed the Atlantic. The workshops stayed.
Tudor Revival, Mediterranean Revival, French Eclectic, Colonial, Beaux‑Arts. The fixtures that belong on these buildings are still made in the same small European workshops, in the same materials, by the same methods, and almost none of them sell into the United States.
Tudor Revival
Mediterranean Revival
Spanish Colonial Revival
Colonial Revival
French Eclectic
American Foursquare
Craftsman
Beaux-Arts
Art Deco
Victorian
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European workshops
France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, England, Ireland and the Netherlands. Family firms, some of them in their third or even fourth generation.
4,000
Outdoor fixtures
Wall lanterns and sconces, post lights, pier mounts, pendants, flush mounts, path and garden lighting.
100%
Made in Europe
Cast, forged, spun and patinated in the workshops that design them. Nothing in our range is assembled from bought-in components.
2008
Shipping to the US since
Export documentation, protective crating and customs paperwork are routine here, not an exception we make for you.
The workshops
A material, a period, a place
A selection from our range. Each workshop has a material and a period it owns, and each one suits particular American architecture.
Lumin’Art
France
Spun and patinated brass, zinc and wrought iron in the French tradition. Zinc is the characteristic French material, and it weathers to a soft gray no paint reproduces.
Suits French Eclectic · Château and Normandy Revival · formal entrances
Italian barn lights
Italy
Patinated brass and copper, Mediterranean shapes, left to develop in salt air rather than lacquered against it.
Suits Mediterranean Revival · Spanish Colonial Revival · coastal and courtyard
Authent
Belgium
Belgian Art Deco with a Jules Verne streak, retro-futuristic and machine-age. Brass, cylinder glass, stepped detailing. Genuine period geometry, not a modern pastiche.
Suits Art Deco · Streamline Moderne · 1920s and 1930s apartment and civic buildings
Schlesische Laternen
Southern Poland
Cast metal in the Old-Berlin and Schinkel manner, with the ornament of the early gas lanterns reproduced intact. Traditional German antique glass.
Suits Greek Revival · Federal · driveways, civic frontages and estate entrances
Bolich
Germany
Bauhaus, country house and industrial forms, made since 1908 and known under the Ebolicht name. Enamel, brass, copper and aluminum.
Suits American Foursquare · Craftsman · Prairie · converted industrial
Munich Lanterns
Bavaria, Germany
Historic brass and copper, handcrafted in small numbers since 1883 by a former supplier to the Royal Bavarian Court. Restrained shapes that carry a porch without dominating it.
Suits Colonial Revival · Alpine and lodge architecture · covered porches
Victorian Lanterns
Ireland and England
Cast and fabricated lanterns in the nineteenth-century British manner, pointed cylinders and glazed panels.
Suits Victorian · Queen Anne · Shingle Style · historic districts
Experience
A specialist shop, not a marketplace
Terra Lumi is a second-generation family business in Augsburg, Bavaria. We have sold nothing but lighting since 2008, and we have been choosing which workshops to represent for just as long.
Hundreds of completed projects
Private residences, hotels and restaurants, retail interiors, and set dressing for film and television across Europe.
Selected projects & references
Berlin
Restaurant Hackescher Hof
Art Deco wall lights with crystal glass rods for the dining rooms behind August Endell’s 1907 Jugendstil façade.
Bayrischzell
Nature Hotel Tannerhof
Bolich, Aldo Bernardi and Berliner Laternen fixtures across a hotel laid out like a small village in the mountains.
Cologne
Chocolate Museum harbor terrace
Three-flame post lights by Schlesische Laternen along the terrace above the Rhine.
Gmund am Tegernsee
Gmund Paper Mill
Vitrine 1LN cased wall lights by Authent on the brick façade of a paper mill in family hands since 1829.
Dresden
Klotzsche Train Station
Bolich outdoor lanterns, Bremen model in copper patina, at a listed station building restored in 2015.
Hörstel-Riesenbeck
Park Hotel Surenburg
Outdoor lanterns by Schlesische Laternen along the terrace of a hotel in the Surenburg woodland.
Altendorf
Guest House Schiesl
A brass lantern on a hand-forged wall bracket by Atelier Lumin’Art at an inn trading since 1753.
Bad Zwischenahn
Rügenwalder Mühle
Micro-oh brass wall spotlights by Authent, lighting a working mill that carries a hundred-year-old brand mark.
Further references
- Grand Hotel Villa d’EsteCernobbio, Italy
- Allianz ArenaMunich
- New Bellhurst Longhorn RanchTexas, USA
- Hotel Waldhaus SilsSils Maria, Switzerland
- BurgtheaterVienna
- Museum TinguelyBasel, Switzerland
- Stone InteriorsSan Francisco, USA
- Schloss FuschlSalzburg
- Deutsches TheaterBerlin
- Piazza di Spagna Prestige HotelRome
- Berghotel SchatzalpDavos, Switzerland
- Philippe Dard, Architecture IntérieureParis
- Salzburg FestivalSalzburg
- Embassy of the Republic of ColombiaBerlin
- MonteverroCapalbio, Italy
- Linderhof PalaceEttal
- Suitenhotel Pirmin ZurbriggenZermatt, Switzerland
- Bruce Stowell Design ServicesBiddenden, United Kingdom
- Schloss DrachenburgKönigswinter
- KaufleutenZurich
- Boehringer IngelheimIngelheim
- Lycée ErmesindeLuxembourg
- Schloss DyckJüchen
- Universal Music InternationalBerlin
- Hotel Schloss SonnenburgSt. Lorenzen, Italy
- Residential villaAbuja, Nigeria
- Schloss WeissenhausWeissenhaus
- 25hours HotelsVienna
- Båsenberga Hotell & KonferensVingåker, Sweden
- Technisches MuseumVienna
- NikolaisaalPotsdam
- PhantasialandBrühl
Working with us
How we work, and what else we make
Our own photography
More than ten thousand photographs taken in house. What you see is the fixture and the finish it actually has, not a manufacturer’s rendering.
One person on your project
Personal consultation in English, by telephone or email. Quotations for complete schedules rather than one line at a time, from the same person throughout.
Interiors as well
The same workshops and the same standard, for the rooms inside. Our interior range has its own shop at Casa Lumi, with more than forty makers.
Before you ask
The questions American clients ask us
We would rather tell you where this does not work than sell you a fixture that fails on site.
Why not just specify an American maker?
Often you should. American workshops do Colonial, Early American and Arts and Crafts better than anyone, because it is their own tradition and they have been at it for generations.
We are useful when the building calls for something they do not make: a French zinc lantern, a Berlin street lamp, Belgian Art Deco, a Bavarian brass porch light.
Do you ship to the United States?
Yes, and we have done since 2008. Fixtures ship from Augsburg in protective crating. You or your contractor act as importer of record, so customs clearance and duty are handled on your side, and we prepare everything your broker needs: commercial invoice, country of origin, tariff classification, weights and dimensions.
On project-sized consignments this is routine for most contractors and freight forwarders, and we handle single fixtures just as readily.
Are the fixtures UL listed?
Most fixtures ship without UL listing as standard. Depending on the manufacturer, a listed or US-configured version may be available on request. We confirm this for each fixture before you place an order.
Will they work on 120 volts?
Fixtures are built to European standard, 230 V with E27 sockets. Some workshops can build 120 V with E26 for the US market. Where they cannot, your electrician fits US components at installation, which is routine work on fixtures of this kind and something our American clients have done for years.
What about wet and damp locations?
Our manufacturers state IP ratings, short for ingress protection. An IP rating is not a US wet-location listing and we do not present it as one. You get the manufacturer’s rating and the mounting conditions the fixture is built for, so you and your engineer can judge it against your own requirements.
How long does it take?
Almost everything is made to order. Typically six to twelve weeks at the workshop, plus two to three weeks in transit. We confirm the current window in writing with every quotation, and we tell you when it moves rather than letting you find out.
Can you make custom sizes and finishes?
Yes, and this is the part most clients underestimate. Custom dimensions, custom arms and backplates, RAL colors and specific patina finishes are ordinary requests for these workshops. Send us the masonry opening or the elevation and we will ask them what is possible.
What happens if something arrives damaged?
Shipments are insured and our packing standard is photographed before dispatch. We hold replacement glass for the fixtures we sell most. One named person handles the claim from start to finish.
Do you work with architects and designers?
Most of our project work is with them. Project pricing, a named contact rather than a form, finish and material samples, custom dimensions, listing status stated per fixture, and quotations within 48 hours. Business accounts are available for repeat project work.
Start here
Send us the building.
An elevation, a specification, or simply a photograph of the house. We come back with a selection across our workshops, including dimensions, finishes, lead times, country of origin and listing status.
No account, no catalog to work through. One conversation about one project.
- Email info@terralumi.com
- Telephone +49 821 450 45 25
- Reachable 3am to 11am Eastern, and by email any time
- Quotations Within 48 hours