Blown: Samuel Wilkinson uses traditional glass-blowing techniques and 3D CAD software for his new lamp

Blown


The newest creation from Samuel Wilkinson is Blown, a lamp for the Copenhagen-based design company &tradition. Aiming to explore the reflective and refractive properties of glass, Wilkinson drew his…

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UrbanGlass: New York’s historic glass studio reopens in a renovated space, adding a gallery and storefront

UrbanGlass


BAM’s Harvey Theater now has a shiny new neighbor. Founded in 1977 by Richard Yelle and Joe Upham, the New York Experimental Glass Workshop—the country’s first open-access glass studio—has bounced around from its original Great Jones Street location in Manhattan to several other…

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Five Hanging Lights: Slip cast, blown glass, corroded bronze and hand-turned wood lighting up Milan Design Week 2013

Five Hanging Lights


Innovations in LEDs, compounded with many designers’ renewed interest in age-old illumination techniques, have brought new life to contemporary lighting design. To celebrate creativity in this enduring design sector, the following are five notable hanging lights in a variety of mediums spotted throughout the 2013 );…

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Interview: Aiko Telgen: We talk to the designer about his glowing plasma Ion Two lamp at Milan Design Week

Interview: Aiko Telgen


Almost completely hidden in a small, dark booth inside Zona Tortona’s Temporary Museum of New Design, German designer Aiko Telgen presented Ion Lamps, one of our favorite finds at…

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Lasvit : Visiting Bohemian glassmakers to preview work designed by Maurizio Galante and Arik Levy

Lasvit


We were recently invited by lighting specialists Lasvit to visit their production sites in Nový Bor, a small town north of Prague in the Czech Republic. We visited two different plants, met designers recordOutboundLink(this,…

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Lasvit : Visiting Bohemian glassmakers to preview work designed by Maurizio Clemente and Arik Levy

Lasvit

We were recently invited by lighting specialists Lasvit to visit their production sites in Nový Bor, a small town north of Prague in the Czech Republic. We visited two different plants, met designers Maurizio Galante and Arik Levy, and previewed their products that will debut at Milan Design Week….

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