May 23, 2013
When designing a sleek new floor lamp, Swiss-based Bernhard | Burkard borrowed a couple cues from the anatomical structure of the giraffe—more specifically its distinctive neck. To give the lamp the flexibility to adapt to any of your lightning needs, its main “neck” works much like that of the giraffe. A hand crank allows you to adjust the height and curve of the lamp through a system of metallic “scissors,” while wooden legs hold the lamp up for support. The tall, skinny legs along with a long neck and angle bulb give this lamp an uncanny resemblance to the world’s tallest terrestrial animal, and makes for quite a dynamic living room fixture to boot! See the giraffe lamp in action below.
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May 13, 2013
When it comes to interior decor, it’s not often you find a manufacturer that’s been around for centuries. But Baccarat, the French maker of exquisite crystal, was founded in 1764, years before the United States was even a country! The company produces an array of lumiéres, from streamlined table lamps to ornate chandeliers (such as “Nervous Zenith” by Louise Campbell, pictured above). We certainly will see loads of brilliant lighting options during the 25th annual ICFF—which kicks off this Saturday!—but nothing quite compares to a dramatic Baccarat fixture. Click through to see more!
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May 10, 2013
No, this is not a colonial artifact or a witch’s broom. It’s the Ugol, a sleek lamp that fits on the corner of your table. Designer Yaroslav Misonzhnikov from Saint Petersburg debuted the Ugol, which means ”corner” in Russian, at Salone Satellite 2013. “The main idea was to create a lamp without different settings,” he tells us. “I dont like to fix lamps.”
How it works: Simply slide the Ugol to the table’s vertex and it will incline by its own weight. That’s it!
“In my lamp you don’t need anything,” says Misonzhnikov. But it’s a little more complex than meets the eye. “I like that this lamp has some limitations,” Misonzhnikov says. “You can’t use round table, very thick table (more than 2,5 cm), and so on; this is part of concept also.”
Minimal installation, minimal design, and just a little quirky. What’s not to like? Click through for more photos!
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December 10, 2012
Weighing just shy of 8 pounds, this suspended concrete lamp is a treat for any brutalist enthusiast. Designed by Renate Vos, the CONCRETE big is constructed primarily of concrete (a given, considering the name) with silicone rubber accents that create a layer of warmth within the minimalist shade. Read more!
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December 6, 2012
Product: Ever wanted an easy-to-use, interactive table lamp? Bitplay has found the perfect solution with the Bang! Lamp. Turn it off with the included gun, and it “plays dead.” Then bring it back to life with another shot. Simple, right?
Designer: Bitplay
Retail price: $299
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December 3, 2012
The time has finally come! Just in case you missed it, this past Friday we announced our “Every Day A Giveaway” plan to give away fun products and games all month long, starting today! Don’t forget to check in every weekday for a chance to win a collection of gifts that we have gathered just for you, including light fixtures, 3D puzzles, and even headphones!
Today’s featured giveaway item is the Yellow Birdcage Lamp with ceramic socket from HUCKDUCK. Handmade on the Lower East Side, in New York City, the Yellow Birdcage Lamp features a completely vintage aesthethic appeal, equipped with cotton power cords that’ll send you back to summer camp. The lamp can easily be installed with a simple ceiling or wall hook, or even more simply used as a table lamp, sure to brighten any space!
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November 5, 2012
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black. Any designer worth her weight knows the CMYK color model, the four-color process that involves cyan, magenta, yellow, and the key, black. For those less-than-design-savvy folks, the new CMYK lamp offers a visual interpretation of the four-part module. Designed by Dennis Parren (who has created numerous iterations of the design since his 2011 graduation from the Design Academy Eindhoven), the lamp uses a series of LEDs projected upward from a center platform to cast cyan, magenta, and yellow shadows beyond the white metal bars of the structure. Read more!
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September 25, 2012
Photos via Guillaume Blaichet
As an act of both observation and experimentation, designers Guillaume Blaichet and Pierre Mourey have created an interactive glass lamp that allows users to experience firsthand the wonders of creating an “irreversible condition.” The globular Impact Lamp comes fully assembled, except for one piece. It is up to the user to complete the lamp by shattering the cullet drip to cover the electric components at the bottom of the lamp with glass shards. Read more.
Impact by Guillaume Blaichet/Pierre Mourey
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August 13, 2012
Images courtesy of Merve Kahraman
London-based designer Merve Kahraman‘s ’Revitalizer‘ lamp explores the cycle of death and rebirth–not things you’d usually associate with your typical light fixture. The lamp consists of a high-voltage bulb set within a wax shade held into place by a thin wire armature. The burning bulb slowly melts the wax, which falls into a container below; the heat from the light above helps to shape the deposited wax into a new, ready-to-use lamp shade. Once the wax has set, the user can affix it onto the top part of the lamp, beginning the cycle anew.
grow old object no1 from merve kahraman on Vimeo.
According to Kahraman, the wax lamp embodies the ‘poetic transformation through metamorphosis’ through by the spasmodic shape-shifts from solid to liquid that occlude and filter the light emanating from the central bulb.
Kahraman has also developed the ‘Revitalizer 2’, an alternate version of the lamp that comes equipped with a dimmer and a heater with a temperature control that allows for easier, more accurate recasting of the wax.
[via designtaxi]
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July 19, 2012
Images: Dino Sanchez via Design Milk
Perhaps no material in the artist’s arsenal is as essential as 3M’s ScotchBlue Painter’s Tape. Used to create clean edges when painting and to hold architecture students’ models together, the tape is near ubiquitous in creative practices.
When Design Milk challenged New York-based designer Dino Sanchez to make something out of the tape, his recent interest in lighting led him toward the idea of fashioning a lamp out of the blue sticky stuff. The designer began by testing the performance of the tape but found that he could make the material structural only with taxing amounts of effort. He then moved on to using wooden dowels for the frame of the lamp, each piece connected with the blue tape. He then wrapped the tape around the frame to fashion a lamp shade before adding the finishing touch: a light bulb. Sanchez was so pleased with the end-product that he decided to make another one. Continue.
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