Lantern by Mathias Hahn for Ligne Roset
London designer Mathias Hahn has designed a pendant lamp that clamps to its own flex, which is now in production with French brand Ligne Roset. Made from spun aluminium and glass, the lamps of the LANTERN series operate within a typological framework, which finds its place somewhere between a floor lamp and a pendant lamp. By means of a clamp mechanism situated inside the lamps, they can be adjusted in height between floor and ceiling, moving it along the cord. With this in mind, the cable is, unusually, fed through the centre of the lamp. The configuration of lamp shade and cable utilises the geometry of the production processes and puts the traditional materiality into a new aesthetic and functional context.
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Sempé w103 by Inga Sempé for Wästberg
Swedish company Wästberg present an LED desk lamp by French designer Inga Sempé at the Stockholm Furniture Fair. Called Sempé w103, it features a hand-spun aluminium shade supported by a thin steel tube, attached to a clamp or cast base. This elementary lamp is meant to be as simple and solid as a nail or a push pin. As with traditional tool machine lighting, the mechanics are sturdy and long-lasting, with the aim of improving classical industrial elements: the clamp is inverted to offer a better way of using it. The lamp mixes solidity and lightness: a thin beam joins the two opposite pieces of the lamp: the heavy cast foot to a delicate shade. Its silhouette and its various positions bring to mind a small umbrella.
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Noon Studio
French duo Gautier Pelegrin and Vincent Taïani joined their forces and created the Noon studio. After their studies in industrial product in France the two designers followed separated careers for a long time until the moment they decided to collaborate and create their own studio. The result of this fusion is a mix of different experiences that allows a new approach to furniture and object design. Different perspectives can be a barrier to productive collaboration but that’s not the case with Noon studio; on the contrary it is an interchange of ideas, an effective way to stimulate creative thinking. The concepts of Noon studio come to confirm the fact that the collaboration of the two designers has only positive effects. A creative relationship that manages to generate new inspirational concepts.
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What Watt? by Tim Fishlock
Tim Fishlock’s What Watt? chandelier is a memorial to and a celebration of the humble incandescent lightbulb. By 2011, all forms of incandescent light bulb will have been phased out in favour of greener alternatives. What Watt? marks the passing of a beautiful design that has remained relatively unchanged since its invention 130 years ago.
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Carbon 451 Lamp by Marcus Tremonto
American artist/designer Marcus Tremonto has created the Carbon 451 Lamp. When asked by art gallery owner Patrick Brillet to design a piece out of Carbon Fiber, we decided to celebrate and utilize the best of the materials true physical properties, its strength and lightness. The complexity of curves and required thinness could not be duplicated in any other material while still maintaining its ability to support itself completely…
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Chimney Pendant Lamps by Benjamin Hubert
British designer Benjamin Hubert has created the Chimney pendant lamps for Viaduct. Chimney is a collection of hand thrown, kiln fired clay pendant lamps. They are produced in a pottery studio in Wales and utilise the natural clay of the region. Using traditional hand thrown techniques each lamp has its own unique character with a textured exterior finish in contrast to a gloss white glazed interior.
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100% lamp by Ross Lovegrove for Danese
Ross Lovegrove has designed the 100% task lamp for Danese. The desk lamp is made from 5 mm thick aluminum sheeting which has been cut, bent and painted white, and includes a printed circuit and touch-sensitive dimmer. Instead of hiding the circuitry of the lamp and its electrical components, lovegrove has exposed them on the outer chassis of the metal structure on the kapton orange that runs down the neck of the lamp.
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Self reflecting lamp by Oliver Schick
This exhibit is playing with the discourse that is currently being held in the field of design. It is a symbol of what design can achieve in our days. Currently, we can see a trend of interpreting design as an act of art, an act of creating unique objects causing rather a thematicand contentual discussion than fulfilling the practical role of consumer articles. Self-reflecting lamp is a ready-made object that critically opposes these different views. Two normal table lamps, the shades of which are grown together like Siam twins, illuminate themselves without managing to produce really useful light. It is just the ventilation slots of the shades which allow some light to pass through, creating a decorative effect by its flower-shaped reflection on the wall.
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Studio Mini by Anna Hadwick
Nottingham Trent University graduate Anna Hadwick exhibited a table lamp on a tripod at graduate show New Designers in London last week. Called Studio Mini and made of oak, the product has three adjustable legs and and a head that pivots through 180 degrees. A detachable, porcelain shade inspired by the twist-and-pull action of changing a light bulb houses three LEDs.
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Can-Can Lamp by Marcel Wanders for Flos
Marcel Wanders has created this elegant yet humourous suspension lamp with a glossy hard shell which only reveals its beauty when looked from underneath, a draped white textile diffuses the light source creating a soft intimate character.
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