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September begins as summer and ends as autumn. On 23 September at 02.05 the autumn equinox falls. Day and night are equal in length, and from that moment the evening lasts longer than the day. That is where September gets interesting, because everything that still happened outside in August is slowly moving indoors.
And your home moves with it, usually before you notice it yourself. The door closes earlier, the soft blankets are back on the sofa, and the light in the room becomes something you make yourself instead of something that falls in.
The table moves indoors
In August the interior ran from linen to earth tones. In September that movement carries on and the centre shifts: from the garden table to the dining table, from the terrace to the sofa by the window.
And what stands on that table may be a little heavier than in summer. Ceramics bring that weight, and glass keeps the whole open because it passes the flame on instead of holding it back. Together they work better than apart: glass in smoked or champagne sits with earth tones just as well as clear glass sits with linen. Living Marron is made for that: a warm brown tone that picks up the earth tones of the rest of the room, in sizes S, M and L that you can place separately or together. Fill the largest with dried flowers, branches already losing their colour or silk flowers that hold up all season, and the room is in step with autumn.
The first evening light indoors
There is one evening in September when you light the lamp for the first time sitting inside rather than out. Rain against the window, the heating still off, a jumper you keep on. That moment is the same every year and still you notice it again every year.
Van Gogh wrote about it to his sister in September 1888: the dark is not empty, it is fuller than the day. A flame shows that. The light falls on what stands close by and lets the rest go, which makes a room feel smaller and calmer than it is during the day.
Outside it works differently, because September brings wind. Windshelter [insert link] is built for that, with a construction that shields the flame so it keeps standing when the wind picks up. That keeps the table on the terrace usable for a few more weeks, even once the meal has moved inside.
"It often seems to me that the night is even more richly coloured than the day."
— Vincent van Gogh, letter to his sister Willemien, September 1888
Why this moment counts
Peri Living exists to contribute to moments that last. September brings its own version of that: a table with people around it, an evening that stretches out on its own, and light you lit yourself.
That is what the original Peri Living Oil Lamp has been doing for more than thirty years: simply being there, in every moment that later becomes a memory.
Seize the moment.
For the September window display
Move the display indoors instead of out. A chair, a blanket, a low table with ceramics and two lamps on it, as if someone has just got up. It is the same arrangement as in August but one step further in, and that is exactly the step your customer is taking this month too.
Where to find us these weeks
From 10 to 14 September we are at Maison&Objet in Paris, in Hall 6 at stands E54 and F53. The new families Collier, Colonne and Ribelle Champagne are there in full, alongside the regular collection.
Warm regards,
Sanne