The Roll lamp by French designer Ferréol Babin is a practical design surprise. It’s kind of like the roladex of lamps, minus the being completely outdated part. The tube of the lamp can be turned 360° and even lifted off of the base. Instead of struggling with cords to turn the entire lamp, you can simple roll the light’s tube in any direction and even lift it to shed so...
Workstead is a New York-based design studio founded by Stefanie Brechbuehler and Robert Highsmith in 2009. The studio takes on projects that range from interior design to art and installations to industrial design. At last month’s ICFF, the studio presented a new lighting collection called Orbit. Made from high quality materials such as brass and marble, the series offe...
With his recent lighting design, Belarusian designer Constantin Bolimond explores how packaging can be applied to lamps, and in the process, draws a parallel between two seemingly incongruous elements. His lamp appropriates the simple, comforting shape of a milk bottle as its own. For some, this minimal interpretation of a familiar object comes with its fair share of nos...
At this year’s ICFF, Lambert & Fils presented a brand new light that reinterprets decorative Chinese screens. Beaubien is at once a wall lamp, floor lamp and pendant light but more closely resembles a sculpture with angular lines traced in black matte. Made from powder coated steel, aluminum and brass, the design makes at once reference to the geometric forms of Modernis...
Felt’s woolly softness and surprising strength makes it the perfect textile for furniture design. But felt rarely gets the glory, often playing second string to other materials. Stockholm-based designer Lorenzo Polo decided to change the game and bring felt to the forefront. Sponsored by the Danish textile giant Kvadrat, Feltology turns the textile into something more. ...
Ethereal is not always the first adjective that we would apply to lighting design, but it perfectly embodies the latest design from Canadian design brand Bocci. Airy and seemingly intangible, the Bocci 73 is a cloud-like pendant made, surprisingly, from blown glass. Its frothy, unfixed appearance results when the glass is blown into a loose vessel sewn from heat-resista...
After 6 years of collaborating with Carlotta de Bevilacqua at Danese, Milan-based designer Paola Monaco di Arianello seems to have broken new ground with Mia, an elegant table lamp made up of two separate elements that rely on one another. Mia is a stylish and functional table lamp that plays with convention, yet conveys a beautiful feeling of smooth harmony. In fact,...
Incipit is a Milan-based design manufacturer that is rethinking design manufacturing. The creative lab seeks to accompany young designers through the entirety of the design and manufacturing process. As part of their 2014 collection, Italian designer Tommaso Caldera designed the Tull Lamp. The Tull Lamp revisits the typical workshop lamp composed of a metal diffuser and...
Great things happen when precision collides with intuition. Such is the case with BBxHH, a lighting collection from American designer Bec Brittain and Swedish designer Hilda Hellstrom. The perhaps unlikely duo joined forces to create a collection that combines what they each do best. Both rising stars in the design world, the two women have rather opposing methods and t...
At first glance, the Manhattan Lamp by Canadian designer Rodrigo Caula appears to be a solid, made from two pieces of opaque Carrara marble. But, as the tired idiom states, looks can be deceiving. When illuminated, a dusky orange glow emits from the white marble, suddenly highlighting the characteristic veins of the ancient rock. In order to achieve the impossibly thin...
Designed by André Simón for his Spanish design studio A/STUDIO, the MIKA 350 pendant lamp rethinks tradition. Rather than a flimsy shade made from synthetic cloth, speckled granite is put through two different turning machines to create a weighty shade that is not visually heavy. To create the granite cone takes around five hours of labor. The granite comes in four diffe...
Since 2007, Rich Brilliant Willing has been designing and manufacturing in Brooklyn, New York. Established by RISD graduates Theo Richardson, Charles Brill and Alexander Williams, the studio won Best New Designer at ICFF in 2011, was named to Forbes Magazine’s “30 under 30″ and was most recently nominated for a Smithson Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award. At last month...
Established in 2014, Vormen is a Belgian design collective made up of young creators seeking to “take their pleasure seriously”. Covering a wide range of art forms, including product design, graphic design and photography, Vormen (Flemish for form) is also one of the select few to have been chosen to participate in De Invasie‘s exhibit at Ventura Lambrate 2014. Their ML...
Molo’s float glassware adds a touch of elegance to your adult beverages. From espresso and coffee cups to martini glasses, the Float series is made from crystal clear German borosilicate glass and has been hand blown by master glassblowers in the Czech Republic. The float series also rethinks traditional glassware. A glass within a glass, the liquid seems to “float” i...
Get excited! Hulger has officially launched the Plumen 002 on Kickstarter. For anyone with long term memory issues, Plumen 001 was launched in 2010 as the world’s very first low energy designer light bulb. We (and the entire globe) were smitten with its unique form, universal application and eco-friendly credentials. For Plumen 002, the idea was to create a dimmer bu...
French designer Julien Renault’s Rainbow Shade brings a gorgeous, palpable color spectrum to your living room! The joyful design was born out of research performed with children during a workshop at la Villa Noailles. Made from reinforced synthetic plaster and produced in limited quantities, the manufacturing process offers an endless possibility of color combinations an...
The Pipistrello has given birth! As a tribute to designer Gae Aulenti, Martinelli Luce has produced a mini version of Aulenti’s classic. Like a little pop-up Palm tree, the Minipipistrello features the famous white metal base, telescopic column for height adjustment and white, opal light diffuser. Table lamp or bedside lamp, it’s a beautiful addition to the Pipistrello ‘...
We think it looks more like a raindrop than a leaf. No matter, it’s so fluid you almost want to drink it. More than a light, the Falling Leaf is available in four forms, including a duo and a trio. The falling effect is created using polished aluminum and matt, high-quality plastic in various colors. The warm-white LED light is distributed glare-free thorough its optical...
What happens when users are brought closer to the creation of an object and are able to witness its life cycle? Melt and Recreate is a product-cum-social-experiment by Swedish designers Siri Bahlenberg and Sofia Bergfeldt. The former classmates created a lamp with a shade of ice. Users freeze the lamp in a mold for 10 hours. Once removed from the mold, the lamp takes 10 ...
Ever convenient, the clamp lamp is the ideal bedside companion for bookworms, but it has its limitations. If it is not firmly clipped to something, the clamp lamp cannot stand up on its own, limiting its overall utility. French designer Inga Sempé created an updated, contemporary version of the lamp for Swedish lighting giant Wästberg. Rather than place the clamp at the...
Danish design is a veritable force with which to be reckoned. From monster brands like HAY to the newly launched Woud, Denmark is clearly rife with talent. And Danish designer Mette Schelde is one such example. Since graduating in 2012, she has already established a client list that includes the likes of Bang & Olufsen, the aforementioned HAY and Danish distributor Pleas...
Founded in 2007, Lasvit is a contemporary lighting designer and manufacturer based in the Czech Republic. At last week’s iSaloni, the company presented their latest collection that features the likes of Daniel Libeskind, Arik Levy and Maarten Baas. Particularly fascinating was the pendant light Frozen designed by the company’s artistic director Maxim Velčovský designe...
Sattler is a German lighting design studio and manufacturer that is truly passionate about their work. Rather than abandoning function to prioritize form, all of Sattler’s lighting designs are ergonomically optimized while retaining an elegant aesthetic. Their new TOCCATA LED pendant light recently won a 2014 iF Design Award. It consists of five interlaced rings that see...
Continuing our trend of stereo-inspired designs, the idea for Danish-Italian design team GamFratesi‘s Volume table lamp for Lightyears also comes from vintage audio systems. However, Volume mimics the buttons from stereo amplifiers of the 1980s by reappropriating the form and simple gesture of turning a dial. In the instance of the table lamp, the gesture of turning the ...
Featured as part of the Wallpaper *Handmade 2013 exhibition, Øyvind Wyller’s In Darkness pendant lamp is the product of a collaboration between the Norwegian designer and Magnor Glassverk. The Vader-esque lampshade is made from handcrafted glass and leather straps. A bulb is then suspended from a fabric-coated cord and allowed to float freely in the darkness of the lamps...
Composed of Tineke Beunders and Nathan Wierink, Eindhoven-based Ontwerpduo continues to execute design with exceptional imagination. Folia Lumina is an organic lighting creation which sprouts from an LED base. The lamp comes with a selection of colorful ‘leaves’ that can be clamped onto the stem then twirled, turned, mixed and matched to your heart’s content. Each leaf o...
Some designs are just deliciously cheerful, and Bumble falls smack dab into that category. Created by Swedish duo Broberg & Ridderstråle for Klong, Bumble is both a table and a lamp. Practical? We think so. Made of hand-blown glass, aluminum and acrylic, the table lamp uses low-heat, low-energy LED technology. It also comes in three bubble gum colors and three different ...
Need some cheering up? Well, first of all, it’s Friday, but if that doesn’t help, Tabanda Design Group has exactly what you need! A Polish design collaboration consisting of three designers, Tabanda produces cheerful and humorous products. They focus on using natural materials and innovative design techniques, while drawing their inspiration from nature. We particularly ...
We’d recognize the sparkling gold accessories and that brilliant black beehive anywhere! Delightfull’s Amy lamp clearly takes its cue from the late singer, songwriter and style icon, Amy Winehouse, turning her signature look into a chic tribute. Available as a table lamp or floor lamp, the handmade Amy boasts a lithe body of wood and brass, and a traditional aluminum lam...
Paris was nicknamed the “City of Light,” but David Graas made his own; HUDDLE is a 3D-printed lightbulb adorned with sprouting cityscapes. We love the fact that the light comes in both pendant and floor versions, so that we can play with gravity. Not only does it help us to see through the darkness, but we actually can enjoy looking at it: the details and bulb shade of t...
The kids were out digging for gold again. They never did remember to fill the hole back in. Now you’re taking a night stroll about the garden when…bloop…you’ve fallen in! Enzo Berti’s Keplero lamp can prevent such catastrophes with its external LED lamp. The raw materials and geometrical architecture of split-level wooden panels join a cor-ten central pillar (iron cor-te...
Javier Mariscal, whose belief is that passion, audacity and creativity can achieve innovative results that work, presents Mora, a Vondom product. A classy glow against a deep, sunset pastel soothes the mind, which is exactly why the Mora lamp’s elegant stance effortlessly refreshes and brings peace to its environment. Natural surroundings welcome this brilliant light pro...
Blending classic pendant form with LED circuit modernity, the Kin 471 is simplicity personified. Designed by Francesco Rota, the Kin is made of cast aluminum. It shines brightly but is dimmable, and when it’s switched off, the glossy finish reflects light. Understated, robust and highly practical, it’s set to be a classic in its own right.
No need to hide in the tree like Sabrina Fairchild, watching the excitement at a distance. You can partake in the festivities by adding a little garden garland of your own. The Melody garland-like globes, an Unopiu product, are connected by a spiral cable, a monoblock plug and a ceramic lamp holder with a maximum extension of 8m. The said ceramic lamp holder comes in bot...
A light you can count on to fit into your life with ease. It’s a look that pays respect to the traditional application of lamps in markets, taverns and cafeterias. Soho by Joan Gaspar for Marset may also suspend from dining room ceilings, open-air dining areas, porches, gardens and more. A rotary molded polyethylene makes obtaining larger sizes possible. It comes in diam...
A night time solar eclipse. Darkness surrounds a ring of light, in which lies the form of a blackened sun. French designer Jean-Marie Massaud combines science and furniture with his Solar product, a Foscarini garden floor lamp. The lamp can be tilted 15 degrees and remain stable while offering various kinds of lighting, which create altered atmospheres. This hemispherica...
