We're not sure what your relationship with lighting is like, but we've had a long love/hate thing with lamps. There was the Banned-In-College-Halogen-Torch-Lamp phase in college, the First-New-York-Apartment-Track-Lighting phase, and currently the Take-Me-Seriously-I'm-A-Professional-Writer-Goose-Neck-Lamp phase. What London artist Georgiosi Ignatiou does…
Continue Reading →Germans aren't typically known for their sense of humor or whimsy. While we'd like to imagine them standing around making funny faces and taking things lightly all day, we take greater pleasure in knowing that Nik Back and Alex Stamminger,…
Continue Reading →If we know anything about you, it's that you're probably the type who's forever sworn off the notion of purchasing a tube top. What if we told you you're about to reconsider that notion? Would you think we're just plain…
Continue Reading →There are plenty of ways to turn a work of architecture into a canvas. You can illegally spray paint your tag on the Arc De Triomphe or draw a mural on Big Ben, but none of those are recommended because…
Continue Reading →For anyone that thinks a house really isn't a home until it has chairs with intertwining wooden tentacles, Toronto-based designer Rob Southcott is a like-minded individual. His Werkstate studio seems to find clever ways to coax nature from some standard…
Continue Reading →Unless you're from Alaska, brilliant light shows probably aren't a nightly occurrence in your backyard. British company Firewinder has remedied this, by taking a typical outdoor mobile and putting tiny LEDs all over it. The result: a trippy, spiraling strobe…
Continue Reading →For a while now we've had an extra padded envelope lying around the office that we wish we had a purpose for. If only we could find the perfect lighting fixture or something that could fit inside. Hold on a…
Continue Reading →Whenever I turn on the lamp in my room, it's natural that for my rapacious consumption of the earth's energy to remind me that I am in some way shape or form engaging in gluttonous behavior; seeing as gluttony is…
Continue Reading →COCO&Co is the design firm of three Frenchman. French is not my strong point, so for me to delve too deep into exactly what they're doing is risky. However, it is safe to say that how they're doing it appears…
Continue Reading →David Wykes and Benoit Collette of Teague designed this sharp Paperclip Lamp after picking up an ordinary paperclip and giving into the same inevitable compulsion that causes us to twist the flexible metal and distort its form when one lands…
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