Handmade with love, for any home
Your photographs, carved into glowing panels. A quiet lantern for the people who make a house feel like home.
Early orders are open
Family motto
Home is not a place. It is the people who glow in the dark.
Made for any family, wherever home is. A gift for a wedding, a birthday, a new house, or the night you miss someone far away.
The craft, since the 1820s
A lithophane is a picture carved in thickness. Nearly two hundred years ago, workshops in France, Germany, Prussia and England pressed them in thin porcelain. Hold one to a window and a face appears. Take the light away, and it goes quiet again.
Darker parts of the image are thicker. Lighter parts are thinner. Light from behind turns those layers back into a photograph — not ink, not a print glued to glass. The lantern is only the house. The memory is the carving.
Nineteenth-century lithophanes from museum collections. The craft has not changed. Only the material has.
Each panel is built in white translucent layers. The photograph is the shape of the plastic. That is why it cannot be a picture slapped onto a lantern.
In daylight the panel looks pale, almost blank. When the lamp is on, the faces return — the same way a porcelain lithophane woke beside a window in the 1820s.
We print, finish, and light-test every panel ourselves. What you see in the preview is a hint. The finished piece is a carving you can hold.
Family days, printed as lithophanes — handmade with love. In daylight they rest. When the lamp is on, the faces return.
Black or white frames. Warm white, a single colour, or RGB with built-in patterns. Real lanterns, photographed in the workshop.
In the house
It is made for dim rooms. Hang it on a balcony in the evening. Leave it on the kitchen counter after dinner. Let it be the only light in the living room.
Every lantern holds three family photographs and a Light of Home door. Frame colour is black or white. Delivery is not included yet. Lights, photos, and frames stay replaceable for life.
AUD 65
One beautiful light — warm white, rose, green, or any colour you choose. Plug in, and the faces you love appear.
Three photo panels + Light of Home door
AUD 75
An RGB lamp. Run the built-in patterns, or lock one colour you like — warm white, rose, green, blue. The photographs stay. The mood is yours.
Three photo panels + Light of Home door
AUD 85
Carry it to the table, the garden, or wherever you gather. About 7–8 hours of glow. About 6 hours to charge again.
Three photo panels + Light of Home door
Delivery fee excluded for now.
A lifetime piece
Every lithophane is handmade with love. All parts are replaceable, so the lantern stays in the family even as life changes.
When life changes
Some memories we keep. Some we need to let go.
Life happens, and so do relationships. Some photographs we want close. Some we need to replace — even erase. We stay with you on that journey. Tell us which photo to take out, send the new one, and we will print a fresh panel. Any photograph, AUD 15.
Replace a photograph — AUD 15
Each panel is printed by hand, checked in the dark, and finished one lantern at a time. Not a factory souvenir — a family object.
Just tell us which panel to change and send the new picture. We print a replacement for AUD 15. Slide the old one out. Slide the new one in.
The lamp can be replaced. A new frame is less than AUD 20. You keep the lantern — nothing here is throwaway.
This is a lifetime purchase. The people in the photographs may change. The light stays.
See it with your family
This is a preview, not the finished print. Upload up to three photos. Drag to turn the lantern. Try black or white, a single colour or RGB patterns. Nothing is sent anywhere until you reserve.
Without the lamp the panel looks quiet. The photograph is still there — carved in the thickness. Light brings it back.
Drag the lantern. Click a panel to add a photograph.
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Clear faces, a little light on them. A wedding, a birthday smile, a parent you cannot hug this year.
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Handmade with love. The picture is carved in thin white layers. In daylight it looks quiet. When the lamp is on, the faces return.
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Black or white frame, your chosen light, and Light of Home on the door. Later you can swap photos, the lamp, or the frame without buying a new lantern.
No. A lithophane is carved in thickness — the same idea as the porcelain pieces made in Europe in the 1820s. Dark parts of the picture are thicker; light parts are thinner. Without the lamp it looks almost blank. The image only returns when light shines through.
A photograph carved into a thin white panel. Darker parts of the picture are thicker; lighter parts are thinner. Light from behind turns the carving back into a face.
Close, well-lit faces. Avoid heavy filters and tiny figures in a wide landscape. We can advise after you reserve.
Yes. Life happens, and some memories we want to replace. Tell us which photo to take out, send the new one, and we print a panel for AUD 15. You keep the lantern — no need to buy another.
Both are replaceable. A new light can be fitted, and a replacement frame is less than AUD 20. The lantern is a lifetime piece, not something you throw away.
Yes. Every lithophane is handmade with love. We print, finish, and light-test each panel ourselves.
Not yet. Prices above are for the lantern only. We will share delivery once early orders settle.
About 7 to 8 hours of light, and about 6 hours to charge. Plug-in versions stay on as long as they are connected.
Early orders are open
Tell us who it is for. After we confirm, we will ask for your photographs privately. No payment is taken on this page — we are emailed the moment you send this.
Every reservation is emailed to us. Next, send the same details on WhatsApp so we can start sharing photographs.
Delivery fee excluded for now.