Sometimes simplicity is best. One might even say that it is in simplicity that one discovers complexity. This paradoxical notion may have been the impetus behind Thomas Feichtner’s Drawing Lamp. As the name implies, this light is meant to illuminate the workspace, notably one’s drawing workspace, notably the designer’s own drawing workspace—“a lamp preferably used by the designer to illuminate the drawing area.” Its design enables it to be positioned in two ways: one illuminates the entire area, while the other sheds focused light in a particular spot. Read more…
The shape and glitter of trinkets and gems lend themselves quite well to lighting, which is why we’ve seen some lovely lamps inspired by jewelry. Mattson’s RGB lights reincarnate the beads on your grandmother’s costume brooches; Read more…
The Lolita Suspension Lamp is mysterious. At first, Lolita seems transparent—clearly feminine, thanks especially to its “dainty polka dot edge.” But, like Nabokov’s title character, the Lolita lamp shifts the longer you look. Read more…
I heard that if you spend 15 years dedicated to a cause, you’re considered an expert on the matter. For Electro-LuminX Lighting Corporation, a company developed by Robert Ponticelli Sr. and his son, Read more…
I’d bet the two most popular materials in hot, design-savvy climates are concrete and silicone. Read more…
Like my beloved Spaghetti Chandelier, which brought back childhood memories of spending Saturdays with my father at construction sites, Cage puts me in mind of the plastic light guards of my youth. I had a fondness for those orange coops, especially for their cocooning effect on naked bulbs. It’s the same feeling that I get from the Eiffel Tower and Brooklyn Bridge Read more…
You can’t know the feeling of vertigo unless you suffer from this particular type of dizziness, which gives you a discomfiting sense of motion even while you’re standing still. It can also take the form of suicidal tendencies, since you may feel like jumping from whatever precipice you find yourself upon. Read more…
It might be a bloodline bias that has got me believing the Swedes design the perfect balance of smart-modern and clean-practical everything, but I can’t help it. Read more…
A lot of interesting things are born on buses. Raymond Queneau’s famous book Exercises in Style tells the same story about two gentlemen bumping into one another on a crowded city bus more than 100 times, Read more…
