Until recently, lace and other openwork delights were perceived solely as attributes of clothing design, and in the interiors they were found only in the form of knitted napkins, considered among people who are well-versed as a sure sign of bourgeoisness and bad taste.

And along with the fashion on retro and vintage, a triumphant return of the openwork took place. But the "well forgotten old" has returned fresh and relevant, without a hint of naphthalene. Torda Bontie's lacy romanticism launched a whole wave of openwork design masterpieces - right down to the perforated doors and ivy-winding radiators. Naive knitted napkins were reborn into laser perforated lampshades, and the favorite in the 80s openwork tights "dressed up" are quite traditional lamps.

Lace, according to Coco Chanel, “is the most beautiful imitation of the fantasy of nature,” so it is not surprising that flowers, leaves, and frosty draws become the motives of the openwork. The secret of the attractiveness of everything laced, perforated, as Dahl wrote, "with a through", is embedded in the very word "openwork" - derived from French a jour, that is, "into the light." Yes, it is the light that pours through the smallest holes in the window that gives this openwork thing such ephemeral beauty and fragile mysteriousness.