About Us

där lighting is one of the best known designers and distributors of lighting for the home in the UK.

Our UK design team create exceptional, original lighting designs that add individuality, excitement and ambience to any home, inside and out, big or small. Our designs are sold through a selection of specialist retailers chosen for their knowledge, expertise and ability to offer a great customer selection experience.

We also offer an OEM design and manufacture service for those who want a lighting range to complement their business under their own label. We excel at this and have a long track record to prove it. Please contact us at sales@darlighting.co.uk for more information.

Our founder's values of bringing design and creativity to a functional and technical product, using the best quality materials and treasuring the value of craft skills and excellent workmanship, still underpin our thinking today.

It has not always been this way, it has been quite a journey for där lighting from a spare bedroom in 1971 to a leading UK brand of lighting. Our founder was a young art student. Working on a project “lighting for the home” he recognised there was little choice or modern design in home lighting products. Inspired by his summer travels to create handwoven lampshades he started his mission to bring beauty and choice to the lighting market. By taking his products to his customers himself in his small van he learned the incredible importance of building a relationship with his customers and understanding the person searching for their perfect light. Only by really understanding what was wanted could he provide it. From this lesson he built up a reputation for unusual and desirable products and great customer service. där lighting was born and the rest, as they say, is history.

där lighting is still a family business. We have been based in Banbury since 1974 and grown steadily by pursuing our mission of bringing good design and inspiration to home lighting. Today our team of young British designers share this passion. By tapping into world design movements through travel, international design shows and festivals they follow fashion, material and interior trends, always looking ahead to the next season. Capturing the main themes, colours, surface patterns and styles they create unique lighting fittings that consistently match the demand for innovation and new looks in an accessible way that has the ability to enhance any existing interior style whatever the budget.

Our lighting designs offer everyone the possibility of transforming a living space adding beauty, surprise, individuality, style and atmosphere as well as the best functional performance and light output. All our products are carefully thought about in all aspects and produced to international safety standards. They are reliable, easy to use and sustainable with a long useful life before recycling. We are members of the UK Lighting Industry Association and sit on their Council and Technical Board. We operate to the Lighting Association Code of Practice and in 2016 gained accreditation for the internationally recognised quality standard ISO9001.

We have come along way from weaving organic shapes in the spare room and driving around in a little van but we are as dedicated to providing a quality and service to match our products as the day we started.

Our relationships with our suppliers where ever they are, the UK, Europe, India and Asia are built over time. This ensures we get to know each other well, respect each other and work to the same quality values. We audit our suppliers regularly and work to the international standards of social and ethical responsibility. We applaud the United Nations 17 goals for sustainability - it will provide a better future for all.

Our retailers are a vital part of who we are. They are our family. These are the people who sell our lights. We have been working with some of our retailers for over 40 years. We never take this for granted and it is something we cherish as being very special. Service is a journey that is never finished. We continually work to improve the service we can offer through our products, our way of doing things and our deliveries. We are here in Banbury ready to take your calls, hear feedback and solve issues.

Our brand is trusted because we are always available, standing behind our products and ready to help wherever and whenever we can.