POP Pendant Light

This light shade is made from hundreds of discarded aluminum pull-tabs from pop cans! What a beautiful way to recycle and re-use!




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Ingo Maurer's new poetic lights!

New poetic lights by Ingo Maurer showed at Euroluce in Milan
Via --Johny B. Butterfly par Ingo Maurer

The Bombe Pendant Lamp by Yellow Goat Design

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Bombe’s Compelling Constellation of Fiery Light

Red is my favorite color, so I’m quite partial to Yellow Goat’s Bombe. I’m also a devotee of synchrony, so I rather admire the double globe effect of the piece’s bulb and shade. In fact, I believe the best things come in threes, and though Bombe’s ostensible two-piece assembly might seem to disqualify it from that appraisal, the glass globe actually houses an energy-efficient CFL, which gives Bombe de-facto membership in this club of handsome threesomes. These qualities certainly recommend this imaginative miniature explosion of light, but the show-stopper is Bombe’s bright red acrylic shade. Resembling a paper sculpture created by the likes of a cheery incarnation of Edward Scissorhands, the shade’s intricate undulations are owed to the high durability and uniform consistency of acrylic, which material captures the effect of this Bombe’s perpetual detonation. Says Yellow Goat, “I wonder if this is what it looks like inside an exploding firework in the split second before it bursts into the night sky? Could be.”

prop table lamp 2008

The Prop has been designed to a strict brief of efficiency both in use of material as well as energy, whilst still retaining a high aesthetic appeal. Completely manufactured in the UK for this first edition, the Prop is perfectly timed as consumers balance cost, both financially and environmentally with the desire for beauty.

The Prop is a black acrylic table lamp consisting of three laser-cut moulded pieces that radiate from a central triangular form. The manufacturing process used is the reverse to traditional acrylic moulding in that the acrylic is laser cut to size first and then moulded to ensure an absolute minimum of wastage from a single sheet, 3% in fact. The low energy light source reflects off the gloss finish of the lamp, playing with perception and the conventions of a typical lampshade.

more: www.steve-watson.com

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Alessandro Marelli lamps

From Yanko Design I Heart These Lamps

Love these raw and laboratory looks!
It will go great with some concrete floor and wall finish style homes!


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Io Jupiter I from Laminote

aluminum pendant lamp

This beautiful and simple design pendant lamp uses halogen lamp but come with an option of changing to LED. The lamp uses traditional craftsmanship in every steps of production. The aluminum body is available in three different colors to fit your interior decor needs.

Interested? More information please visit http://www.laminote.com


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Hanging Lights

Interesting thing about this hangman’s noose is when you tight it lights goes off and when you loose it light will get more bright and bright. This is really like about the life of hangining people, if you tight his life gone and if loose he will get his/her life get back. Perfect example for Drop ceiling light fixtures

A very different take on hanging lights...


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Light Fixture

Design Team: Olga Mihailovich, Nevena Krilic, Sasha Obradovich

We found this while looking around on the www and it immediately caught our eyes!
This light fixture/ sculpture looks like a slowly growing coral in the reef. It is odd and yet beautiful at the same time.

What do you think of it?



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light fixtures made by Recycled Plastic Flatware

WASTE NOT lamps made from recycled plastic utensils

Taking your personal flatware to a fast food restaurant may be cause for curious stares, as well as being just downright inconvenient. The student designers who form BVD (Black Valley Design) Collective have a solution: they repurpose recycled plastic flatware to create stunningly beautiful modern lighting fixtures. Waste Not is an appropriate moniker for this after-school student project that reflects the groups ingenuity and resourcefulness as well as a clean, modern design aesthetic.

Read more about it --> recycled plastic utensiles


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Kenneth Cobonpue's lighting and accessories

Bringing his love of organic shapes, penchant for weaving and use of sustainable materials to a new collection, Kenneth Cobonpue's lighting and accessories carefully mix artful forms and spare designs to create a modern, fun feel. Kris Kros, pictured above, include a wall lamp (on the left), a pear-shaped pendant (right) and a room dividing screen (below the fold) that are created when bamboo twigs are tied to randomly-welded metal frame.

Cobonpue includes a handful of other pretty interesting designs in this collection, from rattan lamps whose colors are inspired by spiders and insects to a light inspired by jellyfish and sea anemones; hit the jump to see pics of some that caught our eye.::HIVE via ::MoCo Loco

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MultiPot Table Lamp and Charger

MultiPot Table Lamp and Charger by Dante Donegani and Giovanni Lauda, 2005

"MultiPot belongs to a new generation of lighting objects and is the first of Rotaliana products to combine lighting with other functions. This hybrid, multifunctional lamp combines an LED ambient night light with multiple sockets, along with a space to keep cables neatly stored. MultiPot provides new comfort levels, both in the home and the the office by catering for both old and new requirements: our habit of emptying keys and other personal items, from pockets into containers, with new requirements to manage our increased use of rechargeable mulitmedia equipment, home computers and the transformation of televisions into home theatres. With its familar looks, lighting function and translucent finish (to filter the light while masking the electrical cables), the MultiPot is a picture of elegant functionality."--http://www.ylighting.com

So, have one on your office desk, yet?
If not, here's where you can get it.


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Sit Lamp

Sit Lamp by Fiona Thomson


Need we say more?
"Sit Lamp! Sit!"



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Castore Table Lamp

Castore Lamp by Michele De Lucchi, 2003.

These table lamps are just beautiful. We actually enjoy it more in a larger size as a floor lamp!

The Castore is a table lamp that provides diffused incandescent lighting. It features a diffuser in white handblown glass, with external etched finish.

Features:

Diffuser in white handblown glass, with external etched finish.
Stem in steel tubing, covered by a tapered sleeve in white translucent molded polycarbonate, allowing for partial soft diffusion of light from diffuser
Base in die-cast metal alloy with white epoxy powder finish
Touch dimmer with chrome finish, incorporated in base
On/Off switch on cord for Castore 14

They are a bit pricey but you can purchase them here



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Hurdle Lighting

Hurdle Lighting by Lee Suk Woo and Byeon Dong Jin

"Simple and functional, the Hurdle is would be completely at home among modern furniture (or an Ikea showroom), and it's so thin that the clutter factor is virtually nil. Just a concept/prototype right now, the Hurdle has a few hurdles of its own to jump before it can come to market, but we'll be first in line at Brookstone when it does." -- Peter Pachal

We would love to get one of these if it was at Ikea prices!

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Lamp OOO

Lamp OOO by Sergio Mannino and Jan Habraken

"This table light synthesizes elements of Italian architecture and Dutch industrial design. Most remarkable is the fact that the light contains three 10-watt bulbs in an era when compact fluorescent (CFL) lights are de rigueur. The low-watt bulbs were chosen deliberately because they are a more sustainable choice for the environment. The amount of energy required to manufacture CFL bulbs and to recycle them is actually greater than the energy they save. CFLs also present a serious problem in terms of disposing of millions of mercury-containing lamps, as well as posing health risks to workers in the factories that produce them. And who can deny that the warm light of the standard bulb is far more pleasant than the new LED or CFL? In 000, the bulbs themselves, along with a beloved pile of books or magazines, become the ornament. With this in mind, while seeking a suitable manufacturer to produce the lamp, Mannino and Habraken will sell 000 with a stack of books personally handpicked and signed by the designers in a limited edition of 99 pieces. Each lamp will be accompanied by different books to suggest that design can take many subjects as its theme, not just function and efficiency." -- words from the designers

This is another take on environmental friendly lights and we don't always have to reserve to LEDs.


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Ociu (A Giant Ceiling Light)

Ociu by Franco Zavarise

Now, talk about bring the sun into your room. This definitely does the job! It is impressive and yet a little bit scary to be under it at the same time. But I'm sure it will warm up any room just as the sun warms our hearts!

"The Ociu (roughly meaning "eye" in Venetian) is an impressive 72 inches in diameter, 31 inches in height, and looks like it could easily crush someone. It's designed to use 150-200 Watt bulbs, depending on what kind you use." --Dvice.com

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Light Sock by Diller Scofidio + Renfr

Light Sock by Diller Scofidio + Renfr


Believe it or not, we've actually had the similar idea of putting our LED silicone bubbles inside a stocking and hang them from the ceiling. However, because of some technical difficulties that it didn't get made.

Well, these beautiful Light Sock are a little different. They are made out of Swarovski crystals!

"You probably wouldn't toss socks and crystals together in the same thought, but here's the result. The "Light Sock" installation features meshed bags stuffed collectively with thousands of Swarovski crystals, with tiny lights buried inside the jumble. The end result is a bunch of humble chandeliers that are actually pretty expensive." -- Dvice.com

Looks like beautiful things will cost you more!


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X-Ray Light

X-Ray Light by Wonsuk Cho

"What do you get when you mix X-ray photography and light bulbs? Well, awesome imagery, but also a sweet lamp. The bulb inside will light up the X-rayed image, showing you the inside of incandescent and florescent bulbs." --Dvice.com

So far it is just a concept but I think it'll be a nice light for doctors office and clinics to add a little humor and takes the edges off the patients.



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Ciconia by Rainer Bachschmid for Topdeq

The other day we saw this beautiful light on Yanko Design and just have to share with you. This simple, clean line and elegant light is inspired by black stork.

"Two symmetrical segments bear a reflective stainless steel strip opposite it’s thirty LEDs seamlessly and are encased within an aluminum powder-coated body that very much resembles a beak. This minimalist light sculpture will grace any space with luminous elegance." --Yanko Design

It is just beautiful. I especially like when its folded and the glow of light softly resting in between its strong arms.

If only it's a little more affordable....
This beautiful black stork costs € 398 and you can get it here


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LED Steps: Motion-Sensing Staircase Illuminates Itself

The Motion-Sensing Staircase is made by a German designer Edo Kriegsmann who has a passion for interactive furniture and fixtures. Edo Kriegsmann installed LED lights on a otherwise normal stair case to make it interactive. Each fade-in, fade-out, cross-tread LED light is a miniature marvel to behold in action.

"The sensor at the bottom, once tripped, starts the sequence of lights leading up to the top of the steps – while not demonstrated, one has to hope there is a corresponding sensor at the top that performs the same function in reverse" http://dornob.com

Here's a nice video clip that demonstrates how these interactive LED lights work.






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