Korean industrial designer Seung-Yong Song created surprising multifunctional furniture, taking the simplest objects, such as a chair and accommodating a variety of additional uses. See a couple of his projects below, you’ll be surprised by what he came up with…
Balloons & Muffins are two lamp collections made of simple and timeless “invisible volumes” by industrial designers Dan Yeffet and Lucie Koldova – Produced by Brokis the lamps are based on the idea of a transparent invisible balloon with a floating reflector.
These awesome ‘Hexalights’ are a series of 2D cartoon pendant lamps by New York based Marcus Tremonto. Continuing to explore the manipulation of two and three-dimensional imagery, Tremonto has created a series of lights using electroluminescent paper and graphics, two dimensional drawings of “cubes” that suggest three dimensional objects. These lights
The Scaffold Lights by Lanzavecchia + Wai are an extension of the concept on structure and skin. Geometric metal wire frames support and pull flexible skins into organic shapes, creating contrasts of material and form, which is further highlighted when the lamps are switched on.
GOODBYE EDISON is a French manufacturing company of contemporary lamps. As its name implies, it is a nod to the disappearance of traditional light bulbs and the advent of new light sources. Investigating the capacity of the LEDs to spread a softer indirect light for the user. Its lamps are fine, light, exquisite and go [...]
Currently being showcased at TOUCH Concept Store are a beautiful collection of handmade lamps by Meghan Finkel. Meghan Finkel started making her nature-inspired and sustainable lamps in 2004. A local New York design, her organic forms are readily appropriated into our contemporary homes. All of the lamps are made from reclaimed, recycled, fallen branches which [...]
Canadian furniture designer Alex Jowett of Atelier 688 contacted us to introduce their very cool one of a kind furniture. Located in Toronto’s Art district of Queen West, Atelier 688 showcases the work of local Canadian artists and designers with a leaning towards the use of reclaimed and vintage materials. Their fun and unique items [...]
During Milan Design Week, famous Italian glass maker Venini celebrated their 90th anniversary show with an exhibition by Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana with their new ‘fragments’ standing lamps alongside earlier blown glass sculptures and a large installation piece.
May 12th started Space Age Lights, a great exhibition at the Triennale Design Museum (Triennale di Milano) in Milan. The 60s and the 70s were rightly called the Space Age as man was thinking to conquer the space by
Dutch designer Michiel Cornelissen created this DIY kit that allows users to assemble their favorite pencils into a large icosahedron. With this kit, plus 30 standard-sized hexagonal pencils, you can build an icosahedron-shaped object of about 38 cm or 15 inch in diameter. Use it as a lampshade, or just have it around as a [...]
Beautifully designed, this simple Screw Me Lamp by Jonathan Rowell will probably fit really well into your modern house or office. His mojo is ” Creating movable objects of beauty that make a home, office or space more suitable for living” - What a great way of thinking !
An other beautiful lamp design coming from the house of ZOON product & interior design, the ine5 light by Croatian designer Zoran Sunjic is a decorative lighting object that brings a sort of customization to the appeal of the lamp.