Silversmith, Victoria Delany, designed these set of candlesticks in silver and lacquered wood. The central wooden parts are interchangeable making an endless number of interesting and colourful combinations as well as allowing you to make them as tall or short as you would like.
Here’s a little summer lighting idea c/o PostlerFerguson. Made from jet cut plywood, it contains a central neon tube, is finished in bare wood and has hand painted fluorescent highlights. Cute!
(And I’m trying to ignore any other possible shapes that one on the left may look like alone.. Or is that just me? Anyone?)
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I was looking all over the internet the other day, trying to find an underwater light that was not a pool light- finally found it! In case you have the same problem, this should save you some time. Good for ponds. $125
Nixie tubes are the the coolest way to display a character electronically. Ipad, pod, neon, CRT tube, LCD display, plasma, none of it comes close to the Nixie tube. I can’t really tell you why they are so cool, but I can show you. Buy one here and here, or a kit here. Here is the wiki article.
I first saw Pieke Bergman’s work at Design Miami this past fall, when he did his Massive Infection series of glass vasses, created right on their wooden table display. I was instantly fascinated. His work is pretty incredible, especially his Light Bulb series, which he explains have been also been “infected with the dreaded Design Virus” and “have taken on all kinds of forms and sizes you wouldn’t expect from such well behaving and reliable little products.”
Oh boy, do I want this Staring Cats light by Steve Bishop. They kind of remind me of the Southern Oracles from The NeverEnding Story.. except minus the giant gazongas.
A while back I posted about some modern cage lights, but these here are the real deal.. and expensive too! Each cage sold between $1,000-1,200 each on Rewire.
I saw Stuart Haygarth’s over at Emma & Eckford, and really loved his use of everyday objects from toys, to eye glasses, to bike reflectors. The chandeliers below contain party poppers, items that were washed up along a coastline, and plastic wine glasses. Check out his site for more.
This sort of reminds me of an old craft project I did at Girl Scout camp, but much, much, nicer. German designer, Johannes Heinzmann created this light from 100% recycled CDs.
We have a staircase going up to our roof and recently Kiersten and I began the annual process of de-winterizing and re-summerizing our roof, which mostly entails sorting through the chaos of last years dead plants and broken glass from windstorms (I have this nasty habit of adopting old windows from brownstones and storing them on our roof).
Also an annual process: dealing with lighting. Every year I buy strands of white christmas lights for the roof, some years I spend more than others but invaribly they all fail by the next year. Another (approximately annual) event is K and I going to Union Pool and me getting jealous of their lighting. I have been working on it and I think they are using commercial grade strands with G50 bulbs. So, if you are searching for good looking outdoor lighting, I would recommend starting with “G50 Globe Strand Lighting”. I am going to find out exactly what Union Pool uses, and when I do, I will post it here.
I had to do a double-take when I first saw these amazing sculptures by M S Hove. Constructed from polyurethane foam and plywood, he then went on to literally build a Cakeland within the gallery’s walls. I’m telling you, you must take the 360° HERE.
Carlo Heckman is an industrial designer I don’t know much about, but did a lot of work that went largely unrecognized in the 1950′s. He’s starting to get some web cred these days, and I’m hoping this means that these go back into production:
I can think of more than one place these vintage inspired lights could go in my apartment. I especially love the antique looking bulbs.
from Anthropologie
Kinda wish I had thought of this, seeing that I have a few boxes of (lesser-than-favorite) toys that I just can’t justify getting rid of.
