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East London design brand Hulger has contributed a chandelier made from its new Baby Plumen light bulbs to the Stepney Green Design Collection curated by Dezeen.

Hollywood Chandelier, which was produced in collaboration with design consultancy Haptic Thought, features 40 Baby Plumen 001 energy saving light bulbs suspended in rows from copper fixings.

Baby Plumen is a miniature version of Hulger’s award-winning Plumen 001 fluorescent light bulb, which was designed in collaboration with Samuel Wilkinson and won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award in 2011. See all our stories about Plumen here.

Photographs are by Petr Krejčí.

Dezeen has been commissioned to curate a collection of products designed by east London creatives that live near to new housing development VIVO and we have been publishing the designs as they are added to the collection. See all the stories about the pieces in the collection here.

The designs will be on show as part of a collection of 30 works of art, fashion, sculpture and furniture celebrating local talent that will be exhibited at the Genesis Cinema in October and then donated to the VIVO residents – find out more here.

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East London designer Roger Arquer has made a bench out of materials he salvaged from his local hardware shop before it closed down, which he is contributing to the Stepney Green Design Collection curated by Dezeen.

All of the materials in the bench, from the wood to the screws and even the sandpaper Arquer used to make it, are from General Woodwork Supplies, a hardware shop near Dezeen’s office in Stoke Newington that closed down this year after over 60 years of trading.

The seat of the bench is made from a plank of English chestnut that Arquer found in the back of the shop, while the 12 beech legs that are screwed in to it are replacement parts for old 1950s coffee tables.

Talking about his affection for the store and the concept behind the project, Arquer told Dezeen “General Woodworks has been a reference hardware shop for many makers based in the creative hub of East London. This was the place to go – they had everything and they knew everything – but it sadly closed down in August. This one-off bench is my tribute to the shop.”

Dezeen has been commissioned to curate a collection of products designed by east London creatives that live near to new housing development VIVO and we have been publishing the designs as they are added to the collection all month. See all the stories we have published so far here.

The designs will be on show as part of a collection of 30 works of art, fashion, sculpture and furniture celebrating local talent that will be exhibited at the Genesis Cinema in October and then donated to the VIVO residents – find out more here.

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Designer Hugo Passos’ yellow side table inspired by the paintings of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian will feature in the Stepney Green Design Collection curated by Dezeen.

The table has an asymmetrical leg structure made from solid walnut that pokes through the brightly coloured, matt lacquer table top.

The tables are also available in red, blue, black and white, in keeping with the style of the De Stijl art movement that Mondrian was closely associated with.

Dezeen has been commissioned to curate a collection of products designed by east London creatives that live near to new housing development VIVO and we will be publishing more designs as they are added to the collection during the next month. See all the stories we have published so far here.

The designs will be on show as part of a collection of 30 works of art, fashion, sculpture and furniture celebrating local talent that will be exhibited at the Genesis Cinema in October and then donated to the VIVO residents – find out more here.

We’ve previously featured a magazine holder inspired by crates of old vinyl records by Passos.

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Dezeen has commissioned London designer and Stepney Green resident Phil Cuttance to make a special extra-large version of his Faceture vase for the Stepney Green Design Collection.

The one-off vase is made of water-based resin, rotated inside a folded mould as it hardens. It is the largest that Cuttance has ever made and stands at 80cm tall.

Cuttance has chosen a unique mint green colour for the vase and documented the manufacturing process in these images.

He has also cast an extract from a poem by Lilian Bowes Lyon, a British poet who wrote about her experiences of the area during the Second World War, into the base of the vase.

See our earlier story on Dezeen about Cuttance’s Faceture series, which also features a video of the machine he uses to make the vases, here.

Dezeen has been commissioned to curate a collection of products designed by east London creatives that live near to new housing development VIVO and we will be publishing more designs as they are added to the collection during the next month. See all the stories we have published so far here.

The designs will be on show as part of a collection of 30 works of art, fashion, sculpture and furniture celebrating local talent that will be exhibited at the Genesis Cinema in October and then donated to the VIVO residents – find out more here.

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Video: Faceture by Phil Cuttance

Above: how Phil Cuttance makes his smaller Faceture vases

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A pendant lamp made from heat-shrunk plastic cups by east London designer Paul Cocksedge is the next piece for the Stepney Green Design Collection curated by Dezeen.

The custom lamp is 90cm in diameter, almost twice the size of the designs sold commercially, and has been on display at the V&A Museum in London as part of an exhibition on British Design.

The Styrene lamp was first created by Cocksedge for his graduation from the Royal College of Art in 2002. We first featured it as part of our Designed in Hackney initiative earlier this year.

Above: Styrene on display at the British Design 1948–2012: Innovation in the Modern Age exhibition at the V&A, 2012

Dezeen has been commissioned to curate a collection of products designed by east London creatives that live near to new housing development VIVO and we will be publishing more designs as they are added to the collection during the next month.

The designs will be on show as part of a collection of 30 works of art, fashion, sculpture and furniture celebrating local talent that will be exhibited at the Genesis Cinema in October and then donated to the VIVO residents – find out more here.

The first piece to be announced for the collection was a one-off three-seater bench by Gitta Gschwendtner. See all our stories about Paul Cocksedge here.

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