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Product news: Northumbria University graduate Josie Morris has created a range of copper-spun pendant lamps with chunky handles.

Product and furniture designer Josie Morris created the Handle Pendants in two different sizes; one is tall and narrow, and the other has a wide tapered body.

Small handles in either grey Corian or walnut are fixed to the top of the metal shades. “Scale and the common detail of the handle were used to create a family of minimalistic pendants,” Morris told Dezeen.

The hanging pendants can be displayed alone or in a cluster and are designed as part of a larger product range by the designer, which includes a coffee table and vase with copper accents.

Morris’ Handle Pendant lamp shades were awarded the Foundry Associate prize at this years New Designers showcase and the designer was also shortlisted for the Design Council’s Future Pioneers Award. Morris is currently undertaking an internship at product and furniture firm Innermost.

Handle Pendants are currently in production and will be launched in January 2014, in collaboration with UK furniture and product retailer Authentics.

Other lights featured on Dezeen recently include a low-energy pendant lamp by Copenhagen design firm KiBiSi that is shaped like an enlarged classic light bulb, pendant lamps with raised collars that direct light to the ceiling and floor and chandeliers with glowing blobs of glass that dangle from aluminium rods.

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Photography courtesy of Josie Morris.

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Product news: Berlin studio Halb/Halb has created a creased circular mirror that allows two people to see their reflection at the same time.

The Mirror #180 by Halb/Halb has a fold down the centre that splits it into two halves and it can be hung in three different rotations.

One option allows two people to use the mirror at the same time, a second can show people at different heights and a third position reflects the ceiling and another area of the surrounding room.

The mirror is made from glass and a wooden fixing is attached to the back to hang it to a wall. It measures 50 centimetres in diameter and is available to buy from Berlin Design Store.

Halb/Halb is a new design studio based in Berlin, founded by Nikolaus Kayser and Nicole Losos. Kayser also works at design studio Böttcher+Henssler, whilst Losos works for Werner Aisslinger.

We’ve also featured Losos’ design for a triangulated wall-mounted structure that you can sit, sleep, read, eat and keep things on.

We’ve published a number of mirrors recently including one with angled tessellated steel panels and another that only works when it’s placed in front of a dark wall. Leandro Erlich also used a large mirror to create an illusion of people scaling the walls of a London townhouse.

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Product news: this pencil cup and stationery holder that appears to be sinking into the desk has been designed by Luka Or for Israel design brand Monkey Business.

The Titanic pen caddy sits slanted on a flat surface. Tel Aviv-based designer Luka Or designed it to store pencils, paper clips and other stationery items.

The pencil holder measures 12 x 8 x 8.5 centimetres and is sold with paper clips. It is available in a range of three colours: red, charcoal and white.

Luka Or founded his own studio in 2003, after graduating from Holon Academic Institute of Technology (HIT), where he also teaches design.

Other desk tidies we have featured on Dezeen include a cast desk tidy by Benjamin Hubert and Magnus Pettersen’s range of solid concrete desk accessories.

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Photography is from Monkey Business.

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For those of us who “only use the best” in our kitchens (regardless of how much cooking actually goes on in there), “Tsubamesanjo” is your new word for the day. Tsubamesanjo is a rail station located exactly on the border of two cities, Tsubame and Sanjo, in Niigata Prefecture in the Northwestern region of Japan. While the Niigata region is known within Japan for its high quality agriculture (famous for its top grade rice and consequentially, great sake), the region around Tsubamesanjo, oddly enough, is actually known for its high quality metalwork.

Back in the early 17th century, there was frequent flooding of the river, which caused major problems for the farming industry. In response, the local magistrate invited nail makers from Edo (present day Tokyo) to teach the farmers the craft of nail making, which is how the tradition of metalwork began.

Today, there are numerous manufacturers within a 30km area of Tsubamesanjo that carry on this tradition of high quality metalwork that grew from nails to kitchen knives, hand tools, and other household and industrial wares.

While tradition and craftsmanship is venerable, it can also go out of style. That’s exactly where FD Style (founded by Mitsunobu Hagino) fills the gap. Hagino’s FD Style blends the traditional craftsmanship of the Tsubamesanjo region with a modern design aesthetic with their stylishly designed stainless black kitchenware.

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Angled steel panels tessellate to form these decorative mirrors by Paris designer Samuel Accoceberry.

Accoceberry built the LUXX mirrors from a series of reflective parallelograms and diamonds, which he tilted so edges fit together and mounted onto three-dimensional frames.

Polished stainless steel panels are tinted gold, bronze and dark grey. Surfaces slanted in three directions reflect different amounts of light, exaggerating their slight angles.

The set of three forms features a large symmetrical design in a vaguely hexagonal shape, an asymmetric medium-sized mirror and a small piece that is also symmetrical.

We’ve published a few mirrors recently, including one that only works when it’s placed in front of a dark shape and another that makes the viewer look as if they’re immersed in water.

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Here’s some more info from the designer:

LUXX mirrors

During the 13 Days, from 4th to 9th June in Paris, Samuel Accoceberry exhibited the LUXX mirrors.

These objects re-interpret his mirrors Akté, Augé and Nymphé, developed for Marcel By.

These stellar, geometric and sculptural forms are a tribute to the illustrations projects Superstudio group that tried to rewrite the codes of future cites with ideal and utopian concepts.

These mirrors are intended as objects to split the space and help us to have an attitude of contemplation. The look may well get lost in space decomposed by the different colored surfaces.

They are of three forms, such as micro-architectures called LUXX. These parts are made from polished stainless steel elements that are treated in different colors (gold, copper, and night) and assembled on a 3-dimensional structure.

Dimensions: 130x125x15 cm large, medium 78x70x15 cm, 48x48x12 cm small.

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