"Half-dimmed coffee shop lights.
"I saw an opportunity to make new vintage pieces, ones that will age well and hold their own alongside a cast-iron desk or shop lights," says Takagi.
Their lids gleam under the shop lights: bottles made of elegant black or vivid green glass stand alongside white tubes with bold, minimalist lettering.
The French are leading the way, having banned neon shop lighting in the early hours last year, and they're now looking at insisting the lights inside shops go off for similar hours.
An even more surprising example of early colour is an impressionistic Amsterdam street scene from 1934 by Bernard Eilers, in which blurred shop lights are reflected on a wet street in a haze of dark blues and reds.
GARDENER'S guilt overtook me last spring as I stumbled over the dusty shop lights on our attic floor; in years past, they would be beaming faux sunlight over flats of seedlings by mid-March.
Eva knew that she should go, too, but she couldn't bring herself to drive home to her husband's house, and she lingered in the porch awhile, watching the snow as it fell through the shop lights on the far side of the green.
Deep in a moon-drenched forest, overlooking frozen meadows, barns, and a composting toilet, we settled into the top floor of an old timber-frame shop, lighting a woodstove to warm up.
After Mik, the shoppers on Piccadilly walk in slow time, picking at inexplicable presentations of rags in stagey clothes shops, maundering about in that weird shopping light, blundering and transfixed, at once mesmerised and lost.
We found that increasing track length, having paths located closer to roads, fewer buildings with driveways, a greater presence and variety of destinations and views of shops, light industry, offices and/or schools (commercial views) were associated with more time spent walking in local environments in adjusted models.
