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Well, there he goes again… for the second consecutive week, Jacob Slevin, Publisher of 3rings, has upset my nightly regimen of The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and Bill Moyers’ Journal by forcing me to turn to dreaded prime-time network fare. Read more…
There is something in the air in the Netherlands, and it’s not what you think. It’s a feeling of extravagance and playfulness, a bringing together of seemingly disparate elements. Read more…
Though I’ve yet to visit the African Savannah, and thus yet to see them in their natural element, I’ve always thought there was something sublime about elephants, especially in regards to the way they manipulate their fifth appendage. Along with their unrivalled bodily bulk, an elephant’s trunk distinguishes it from the other herbivorous grassland inhabitants. Read more…
What exactly are LEDs? Everyone’s favorite web source of collectively-mediated information, Wikipedia, says, “A light-emitting-diode (LED) is a semiconductor diode that emits light when an electric current is applied in the forward direction of the device. Read more…
Ross Lovegrove’s System X has been variously called a “modern and sculptural lighting system”; an “x-shaped interconnected lighting module”; a “combination of industrial materialisation and polymerisation”; and, “Finally! A fluorescent lighting array that isn’t completely hideous.” Read more…
As a child, I spent many of my weekends at local construction sites, trying not to get nails embedded in my feet. This dangerous visitation ritual was thanks to my father, an engineer who simply couldn’t let go of his jobsite anxieties — in his mind, everything would fall apart without his constant supervision (he probably even dreamed of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge). Read more…
Who knew that anything good could come out of Texas (besides B-B-Q)? Well, clever designer Efrain E. Velez — who hails from Texas, as well as Puerto Rico, the Americas, and Europe (he’s busy and fast apparently, everywhere at once) — has conceived an ingenious lamp based on a rather archaic tool, the crank. Read more…
Meaning “eye” or “pay attention” in Venetian dialect, Ociu by Zava is a giant pendant lamp, measuring over 72 inches in diameter and 31 inches in height. Read more…
Being that Indians all over the world (including yours truly) are currently celebrating Diwali — aka the festival of lights — it feels appropriate that I write an article about my favorite luminaire this week… that being the intelligent Memento Lamp. Read more…
Designer Alfonso Fontal asks, “why do the words luxury and lust sound so familiar?” It’s a quote. Really. Just visit the manufacturer’s website to read more of Fontal’s sexual text (it’s not subtle enough to be innuendo); at Modiss, you’ll discover that the Andressa Glam is more aphrodisiac than lamp: “Let there be light on bodies trembling with passion! Read more…
