I’m just in a cranky mood today. I saw this product a few minutes ago, and it made me think of the years of stupidity we’ve seen in American design today. Not this design, but the lack of doorknob innovation. See, I like this design. It immediately makes me think of something I’ve [...]

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Abyss Pendant From the Aureliano Toso Collection. Pendant light for direct and diffused illumination. Blown crystal glass diffuser with top portion in satin finish. Chrome canopy and hardware. Dimensions 7.2″D X 23.6″H; 93″ overall height, can be field-shortened. Uses 1 X 150W 120V E26 (medium base) incandescent lamp (not included).

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MultiPot Table Lamp and Charger Design by Dante Donegani and Giovanni Lauda, 2005 Imported from Italy. MultiPot belongs to a new generation of lighting objects and is the first of Rotaliana products to combine lighting with other functions. This hybrid, multifunctional lamp combines an LED ambient night light with multiple sockets, along with a space to [...]

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Ninety Task Light Design by Shawn Littrell. The world’s most energy-efficient LED task light. Four high-powered LED’s illuminate the task area as the asymmetrical light distribution ensures optimal ergonomic lighting. A spring-balanced arm, rotating base and sleek head give the Ninety excellent range of motion. Ninety supplies a great deal of light even though it consumes [...]

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Brazo Table Lamp Design Pablo Pardo, 2006 Brazo’s (formerly known as Kaleidoscope) precision machined aluminum construction allows for optimal task lighting control with 360eg; adjustability. Brazo features a luminous and energy efficient LED light source which can be dialed in to any desired beam spread and brightness depending on the task. Features: 18 X High Output [...]

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Z-bar is quickly becoming the lamp of choice by architects wanting to add a bit more style to their drawing board. I should know. I’ an architect and I have one at work. I ‘ve asked other architects. They too have purchased one. I think it goes over well because it’s "green" sleek, [...]

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Lindsey Adleman is quickly carving out a niche for the finest and most bubbly chandeliers available. Each piece is completely unique, hand made, blown glass that include significantly difficult and virtuosic glass manipulations such as incorporating a haunting golden foil into the glass surface. Lindsey Adelman Studio: installation at Karkula

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Here’s another placeholder for a company making great lighting. I’d love to go more in depth about their lighting, but for now, let’s say: odern forms with baroque patterns. The light quality that is created by the lamp transports me into a Calgon Commercial where I feel the urge to have hot stones [...]

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Julia Lohmann has become one of four 2008 Design Miami/Basel Designers of the Future. Her work is characterized by seeing beauty in biological structures. For instance, Flock, seen above, is a lamp made from the stomachs from one flock of fifty sheep. The textures and shapes of the stomachs are quite striking, and [...]

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Have you been wondering how to dispose of your old couch, but you don’t want to send it off to a huge landfill? I’ve got an idea! Rip the thing apart and break it down into its component pieces. And when you get to the springs, cut those up and turn them into a chic, [...]

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A reader has requested that I send a quick shout out to all in the interior design community: Do You Know of a Product Rep. in the United States for the two companies Licht Im Raum and Dix Heures Dix? Both manufacturers produce exquisite work, and I would very much like to know if there [...]

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Anatomic Factory recently introduced their fantastic lamp series: Milk Gone Bad. WHen the light is off, this simple paper lamp looks like a generic, white milk carton. When the light is on, the carton transforms into a three dimensional canvas that Anatomic Factory has expertly printed with the brightly colored stylings of Bombo. [...]

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Mixko, as their namesake indicates, is a  company that mixes multiple unlike things together to come up with completely new meanings. They look at an object like a whistle, for instance, and say, “Hey, if the scale of that whistle were multiplied in size by, like four hundred times, then that whistle would make a [...]

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Whew! Finally, I have just a moment to start telling people about the amazing products I saw at the 2008 ICFF (International Contemporary Furniture Fair). Let’s start close to home with one of the Bernhardt Competition winners: The Simple Light. This light is so perfectly sculted and, and… simple… which may make it [...]

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It’s very rare that I find such a simple concept with such dramatic results. The object: a ring with a light on it. The concept: take a few hundred zip ties and wrap this ring in any configuration you choose. The result: an ethereal blob of a light that is not unlike a jellyfish. Oh, [...]

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Marcel Wanders, uber designer of the past five years, has created this recent addition to the stable of fantastic, high-concept lights for Flos.  The concept is to take an old school chandelier and treat it as it were in a haunted house with some overzealous spiders which had made the most lethal web imaginable. The [...]

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