immerLit: Elegant, handcrafted porcelain light fixtures that play on translucency

immerLit


The natural ceramic elements within porcelain clay inspire the organic designs that make immerLit unique. Almost flowering downward from the base of each hanging fixture, these handmade and customizable lights are art pieces, as well as…

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Plumen 002: The world’s second low-energy designer light bulb, elegant from all angles

Plumen 002


For generations, the lightbulb remained a stagnant design—until 2010 that is, when the Plumen 001 was first introduced as the world’s first low-energy, designer bulb. Now today, Plumen again changes the game with the introduction of the new ,…

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Skatelamp: Portland-based MapleXO and woodworker Paul Sykes give new life to discarded skateboard scraps

Skatelamp


by Eva Glettner Portland, Oregon’s MapleXO rebirths old skateboards and skateboard scraps by turning them into everything from containers to bottle openers to earrings. Their most exciting object—the recently released…

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Blackbody NYC: A look inside the OLED maker’s first showroom with Art Director Thierry Gaugain

Blackbody NYC


As essentially the only company making OLED applications available to the consumer market,Blackbody—a sub-brand of innovative Italian-French lighting developer Astron Fiamm—is leading the charge to bring the versatile lighting option to a wider audience. We’ve seen…

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Frederik Molenschot at Huys: The Dutch lighting designer’s public exhibition in a private residence in NYC

Frederik Molenschot at Huys


At the Huys (pronounced “house”) residence in New York City, presently in development by the Netherlands’ Kroonenberg Groep, you’ll find a new, unified showcase of Dutch contemporary design. Situated…

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