Reviews

cast coffee grounds, coffee ground lamp, coffee grounds, Decafé Lamp, Raúl Laurí, recycled lamp, Salone Satellite Award 2012, Spanish design, sustainable design

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee: Decafé Lamp by Raúl Laurí

Like the Turkish, Cubans are big on coffee. The Miami version of this espresso is dark and sweet (very sweet). It is also ubiquitous.

clock, Ding 3000, Discipline, Ichiro Iwasaki, Italian design, Lars Fjetland, natural materials, Salone del Mobile 2012, self-regenerating materials, stool, sustainable materials

At Salone 2012: Furniture and Objects by Italian Brand Discipline

A new Italian brand called Discipline unveils its first collection of furniture and objects at Salone del Mobile 2012. Discipline designs and constructs in keeping with its manifesto, a set of beliefs encompassing design, production, sustainability, materials, and life.

Bio-on, bioplastic, Flos, green lighting, Miss Sissi, PHAs, Philippe Starck, renewable plastic, sugar plastic, sugar waste, sustainable lighting

Miss Sissi Redux: Iconic Lamp by Philippe Starck Gets Sweeter with Biopolymer

If you’ve never smelled sugar beets, consider yourself lucky. The crop has a rather unappealing odor, something akin to old lady perfume and rotting broccoli.

Chilean design, industrial paper, Milan Design Week 2012, mobile lamps, Origami's Hunter Collection, paper lamps, Salone 2012, Si Studio, Verónica Posada

At Salone 2012: Origami’s Hunter Lamps by Si Studio

When I was a child, I could not stand to be taken anywhere there were animal trophies hanging on the wall. This meant that my parents had to check out restaurants and hotels that might have taxidermied deer, because if there were stuffed heads or bodies, I would cry—and insist on leaving.