Offering a discrete, portable and rechargable lighting alternative is Lumio, a book-shaped lamp now on Kickstarter. Inspired by the idea of a modular home that could fold flat for transportation, the lamp is designed to adapt to a multitude of environments with its accordion-like structure. As the cover is…
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Stockholm 2013: Swedish designers Claesson Koivisto Rune used recycled aluminium to create these small and colourful pendant lamps for Swedish lighting brand Wästberg.
The W131 lamps by Claesson Koivisto Rune for Wästberg are made from sand-cast recycled aluminium and fitted with halogen reflector bulbs.
The lamps come in eight colours and were launched at this week’s Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, which continues until 9 February.
Other designs by Claesson Koivisto Rune we’ve featured include a lounge chair with a tiny white table attached and a renovated 19th century building in Stockholm – see all designs by Claesson Koivisto Rune.
We’ve also featured lots of lighting by Wästberg, including 30 lamps created from modular parts by Japanese designers Nendo and unveiled in Stockholm this week – see all products by Wästberg.
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Here’s some more information from the designers:
Claesson Koivisto Rune w131
A pendant lamp is a very old concept. While Wästberg is a very forward thinking, high technological lighting manufacturer. So when designing a new pendant lamp for Wästberg you want to bridge past with present.
First, the w131 is small. Surprisingly small. Equipped with reflector halogen it gives good light. So the lamp is extremely versatile as to where to use.
Second, it is tactile and friendly. Sand-cast recycled aluminium is both beautiful and environmentally sound. Any imperfections of the metal are with purpose. The textile cord adds softness. We will use this lamp both at home and for contract.
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Stockholm 2013: these porcelain and wood pendant lamps were created by Stockholm-based Note Design Studio for Italian design brand Ex.t.
The Fuse lamps by Note Design Studio for Ex.t combine a porcelain shade with a wooden pendant holder, and are available in two sizes and three colours.
The lamps will be on show during Stockholm Design Week at Note Open 2013, a pop-up exhibition space in the old Luma bulb factory, at Ljusslingan 1, until 9 February.
Other products launching in Stockholm this week include a chair that can be dressed up in an assortment of garments and a cluster of blown glass trees – see all products shown at Stockholm Design Week 2013.
We’ve featured lots of products by the same designers, including an aluminium lamp inspired by a circus trapeze and a herringbone-patterned architect’s desk – see all products by Note Design Studio.
Photographs are by Mathias Nero.
Here’s some more information from the designers:
Fuse
Inspired by traditional Italian craftsmanship and mixed with Nordic simplicity, Fuse is a lamp in which the tactility of the materials plays an essential role. The result is a soft porcelain pendant lamp accentuated by a wooden pendant holder that together emulate the warm glow created within each cylindrical shade. Available in two sizes and three colours, there’s a style for every taste.
The FUSE Pendant Lamps will be on show at Note Open 2013, our new concept for this year Stockholm Design Week, in collaboration with Fabege (www.fabege.se), a pop-up office and exhibition space in the quite unusual location of the old Luma bulb factory. Here we will show this year’s great collaborations with Zero, Nola, Mitab, Örsjö belysning, Ex-t, Seletti, Boxit Design and Zilenzio. The space will be open to the public 9 – 18 hrs every day Mon 4th-Sat 9th of February.
Title: Fuse
Object: Pendant lamps
Client: Ex.t
Material: Wood/ceramic
Year: 2013
Art Direction: Note
Location: Strandhuset Luma Stockholm
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Stockholm 2013: Swedish lighting brand Wästberg has unveiled an installation of 30 lamps created from a modular set of parts by Japanese designers Nendo.
Over thirty different lights have been set up in a room at an old skating pavilion in Stockholm to demonstrate the range of possible configurations.
The W132 group of components includes a circular base, two poles of different lengths and three different shades.
The shades can be used without light bulbs to make containers, flipped over to create uplighting or hung from the ceiling as pendant lamps.
Long and short poles fit into the circular bases, shades and each other to create different stand heights that can be adjusted using circular keys.
Additional parts can be added, including table tops and a bird cage.
The installation is on display at the Skridskopaviljongen in Stockholm this week to coincide with the launch of a book about the collaboration.
Nendo is guest of honour at Stockholm Furniture Fair, which continues until 9 February.
Previous designs we’ve featured by the Japanese design studio include bowls so thin they quiver in the wind and glassware made from old Coca-Cola bottles.
Take a look at watches they’ve designed for Noon at Dezeen Watch Store here.
Our coverage of Stockholm Design Week so far includes glass bubbles that look like trees and chairs that can be dressed in different garments.
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Maison&Objet 2013: Italian designer Valentina Carretta made these hanging lamps for Italian brand Seletti with coarse paper like the kind used in egg boxes.
Valentina Carretta’s Egg of Columbus lamps come in three sizes and combine a shade made of moisture-resistant recycled paper with a ceramic lamp holder and a red fabric cord.
The lamp’s name refers to the story of how explorer Christopher Columbus challenged his detractors to make an egg stand on its tip. When they gave up, he did it himself by tapping the egg on a table to flatten its tip, demonstrating how a brilliant idea can seem easy once you know how it’s done.
Made for Italian design brand Seletti, the lamp was shown at Maison&Objet design fair in Paris last week, where we also reported on a family of terracotta pots with rubber lids and cutlery with slim handles like chopsticks – see all products from Maison&Objet 2013.
We previously published a lamp with a paper pulp shade that doubles as packaging for the product’s components.
Lots of products made of paper have featured on Dezeen, including a crumpled paper stage set for an opera and bowls made from shredded banknotes – see all designs made from paper.
Other lamps we’ve featured lately include architect Frank Gehry’s scaly fish lamps and a lamp made from two pieces of ceramic joined by a silicone band – see all lamps on Dezeen.
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After studying architecture together at the Vienna University of Technology, friends and designers Maik Perfahl and Wolfgang List went their separate ways. List continued his architectural education, working for different firms and focusing on interiors, while Perfahl decided to translate his interest in architecture into a degree in 3D…
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Maison&Objet 2013: French design duo Colonel present furniture inspired by camping at Maison&Objet design fair in Paris, which concludes tomorrow.
Above: large Dowood lamp
The second collection from Colonel includes the Dowood lamp, which has a metal base and a beech shade painted with bright geometric forms. It comes as a ceiling lamp or a small or large table lamp.
Above: small Dowood lamp
The Diabolo lamp is available as a tripod, table or ceiling lamp and comprises a metal frame dressed with a gradient-printed fabric shade in mint, blue and pink, or yellow and pink.
Inspired by camping furniture, the beech Pondy table has turquoise crossrails and comes with a bench with yellow crossrails.
The new objects are shown alongside Colonel’s first collection, which comprises Faces, a standing lamp with a decagonal fabric shade that tilts like an umbrella, and Caracas, a version of a ’60s camping chair that comes in yellow, pink or blue.
Above: Diabolo table lamp
Colonel was founded by Isabelle Gilles and Yann Poncelet in 2010 and their products are available from their Paris boutique.
Above: Diabolo tripod lamp
Other products shown at Maison&Objet this year include a family of terracotta pots with rubber lids and a set of cutlery with long, slim handles like chopsticks – see other designs presented at Maison&Objet 2013.
Here’s some more information from the designers:
Colonel was born from the meeting between Isabelle Gilles and Yann Poncelet around the famous cocktail made of vermouth and lime ice, in 2010. Their desire is to first draw fresh and contemporary products and furniture.
Above: Diabolo ceiling lamp
Interested in creation and traditional craftsmanship, Colonel decides to launch a new design furniture and products company while working in parallel on interiors. All the items are designed by Colonel: Isabelle Gilles & Yann Poncelet.
Above: Pondy table and bench
Collection
This new collection as the first collection of Colonel was inspired by outdoor furniture (beach, camping) aesthetics. It is a contemporary re-reading of this universe mixing colours, rhythms and patterns. It is mainly composed of wood, textile materials and surprising colors. The collection evokes summer, relaxation.
Dowood lamp
This raw and sophisticated new lamp is composed of a beech shade and a metal base. Colonel offers three different forms: small and large table lamps and a big ceiling lamp. Dowood lamp is available in seven colour sets. Beech, acrylic painting, metal.
» Small table lamp: Ø 20 cm / H 30 cm
» Medium table lamp: Ø 30 cm / H 25 cm
» Big ceiling lamp: Ø 40 cm / H3 0 cm
Above: Faces standing lamp
Pondy table
Colonel creates a table with a raw and minimal appearance, where wood and metal interlock to create a harmonious whole. This table comes with a bench. Its size invites to conviviality. Beech and metal.
» Table: l 160 cm x L 80 cm x H 73 cm (others sizes on request)
» Bench: l 145 cm x L 32 cm x H 46 cm
Diabolo lamp
This lamp is available in different shapes and colour ranges. Gradient fabrics come around the structure like a dress, and then close on it like a hood. Diabolo is available as table lamp and tripod. Colours: mint, blue / pink, yellow / pink. Gradient fabric and metal.
» Tripod lamp: Ø 45 cm / H 110 cm
» Table lamp: Ø 40 cm / H 38 cm
» Ceiling lamp: Ø 45 cm / H 37 cm
Above: Caracas chair
Faces lamp
Faces often changes appearance thanks to its large tilt decagonal shade. It could be compared to an umbrella. The white poliphane inside shade guides light according to his inclination. Beech and Kvadrat fabric.
Dimensions: H158 cm, D36-56 cm
Caracas chair
Inspired by garden furniture, «Caracas» is a very contemporary version of the 60s camping chair. Its large proportions invite to relax, its appearance suggests holidays. Caracas changes his appearence with a new graphic canvas. Yellow/pink/blue fabric – metal.
Size: H 80 cm / L 64 cm / P 53 cm
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Architect Frank Gehry has presented a new collection of his glowing Fish Lamps made of jagged plastic scales.
Frank Gehry first produced his Fish Lamps between 1984 and 1986 using the then-new plastic laminate ColorCore.
After accidentally shattering a piece of ColorCore while working on a commission for Formica, he decided to use the broken shards as fish scales by glueing them onto wire armatures.
For this new group of Fish Lamps, he used larger and more jagged shards of ColorCore. Some of the lamps can be fixed vertically against a wall or pole, while others are placed on flat surfaces.
The lamps are being presented at Gagosian Beverly Hills until 14 February and at Gagosian Paris from 24 January until 9 March.
We’ve featured lots of architecture by Gehry, most recently a proposal for an art gallery and university complex in Toronto – see all our stories about architecture by Frank Gehry.
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Photographs are by Josh White, courtesy of Gagosian Gallery.
Here’s some more information from the Gagosian Gallery:
Frank Gehry: Fish Lamps
Gagosian Beverly Hills: January 11–February 14, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, January 11, 6–8pm
Gagosian Paris: January 24–March 9, 2013
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 23, 6–8pm
“The fish is a perfect form.” – Frank Gehry
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present Frank Gehry’s Fish Lamps. The exhibition will be presented concurrently in Los Angeles and in Paris. One of the most celebrated architects living today, Gehry’s career spans five decades and three continents. Known for his imaginative designs and creative use of materials, he has forever altered the urban landscape with spectacular buildings that are conceived as dynamic structures rather than static vessels.
Gehry has always experimented with sculpture and furniture in addition to his architectural pursuits, coaxing inventive forms out of unexpected materials, from the Easy Edges (1969-73) and Experimental Edges (1979-82) — chairs and tables carved from blocks of industrial corrugated cardboard — to the Knoll furniture series (1989-92), fashioned from bentwood. The Fish Lamps evolved from a 1983 commission by the Formica Corporation to create objects from the then-new plastic laminate ColorCore. After accidentally shattering a piece of it while working, he was inspired by the shards, which reminded him of fish scales. The first Fish Lamps, which were fabricated between 1984 and 1986, employed wire armatures molded into fish shapes, onto which shards of ColorCore are individually glued, creating clear allusions to the morphic attributes of real fish.
Since the creation of the first lamp in 1984, the fish has become a recurrent motif in Gehry’s work, as much for its “good design” as its iconographical and natural attributes. Its quicksilver appeal informs the undulating, curvilinear forms of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain (1997); the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago (2004); and the Marqués de Riscal Vineyard Hotel in Elciego, Spain (2006) as well as the Fish Sculpture at Vila Olímpica in Barcelona (1989-92) and Standing Glass Fish for the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden (1986).
In 2012 Gehry decided to revisit his earlier ideas, and began working on an entirely new group of Fish Lamps. The resulting works, which will be divided between Gagosians Los Angeles and Paris, range in scale from life-size to out-size, and the use of ColorCore is bolder, incorporating larger and more jagged elements. In Los Angeles, Gehry is also designing the installation for the Fish Lamps, following his inspired design for the Ken Price exhibition at LACMA earlier this year.
The softly glowing Fish Lamps are full of whimsy. As individuals or groupings of two and three, some are fixed to poles or wall sconces, while others can be placed on any existing horizontal surface. Curling and flexing in attitudes of simulated motion, these artificial creatures emit a warm, incandescent light. This intimation of life, underscored by the almost organic textures of the nuanced surfaces, presents a spirited symbiosis of material, form, and function.
Frank Gehry was born in Toronto in 1929. He studied architecture at the University of Southern California and urban planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His drawings, models, designs, and sculpture have been exhibited in major museums throughout the world. Among his most celebrated buildings are the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany (1989); the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain, (1997); and the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles (2003). Awards include the Pritzker Architecture Prize (1989); the Wolf Foundation Prize in Arts (1992); the Praemium Imperiale in Architecture from Japan Art Association (1992); the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (1994); the National Medal of Arts (1998); the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects (1999); the Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects (2000); and the Lifetime Achievement Award from Americans for the Arts (2000). “Frank Gehry, Architect,” the most comprehensive exhibition of his work to date, was presented at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2001. Gehry’s latest building, the Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation in the Bois du Boulogne, Paris, will be completed in 2013.
The first Fish Lamps were shown in “Frank Gehry: Unique Lamps” in 1984 at the former Robertson Boulevard location of Gagosian Los Angeles.
Gehry lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Led by Israeli product designer Itay Ohaly, a group of nine designers worked in isolation on the eclectic parts for this table, chair and lamp.
“The Group Project is a non-linear design method – a disconnected collaboration between individual designers,” says Itay Ohaly, who started working on the project as part of his master’s degree at Design Academy Eindhoven.
Above: chair with leg by Dana Cannam, seat by Joon Han Lee and back by Agata Karolina
The three pieces were designed for an exhibition in an old coal mine in Genk, Belgium, last summer.
Above: lamp with base by Nati Moskovich, lampshade by Naama Bergman and stem by Itay Ohaly
Each of the nine designers was tasked with producing a single part of one object: a table, chair or lamp. After creating the parts, they gathered to work out how to assemble the final objects.
Above: table with legs by Christian Fiebig, top by Amelia Desnoyers and drawer by Eugenia Morpurgo
“Luckily, we didn’t have to make significant changes,” Ohaly told Dezeen. “For example, the chair back [by Agata Karolina] was initially designed with wooden round profiles, and it was changed to square profiles to fit the pattern of the seat.”
Above: concept design for the project
The joints of the table legs were also altered to fit the different levels underneath the table top, while the connection between the lampshade and the stem was made specifically to fit the chosen materials, he adds.
Above: each of the nine parts
We’ve featured a few other projects by Ohaly on Dezeen, including a series of chairs with broken backs and a collection of jewellery carved from layers of coloured paint.
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Photographs are by Ohaly.
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The Group Project is a non-linear design method – a disconnected collaboration between individual designers. A ‘group project’ starts with a selection of objects that are to be designed. Each one of these objects is divided and broken into smaller parts.
All parts are designed according to a specific theme; however, each part is designed by a different designer without communicating with the other designers. When the parts’ design phase is finished, the group meets to perform minor necessary adjustments. Afterwards, all parts are produced and assembled.
This kind of method composes a group exhibition within a single object. Each designer’s different approach and style are expressed together in one object, establishing a dialogue between the object’s different parts.
Especially for the ‘Machine’ exhibition – which took place in an old coal mine, the C-mine, in Genk, Belgium – nine designers collaborated to create a set of three objects; a table, a chair and a lamp. These objects were designed according to the theme ‘the C-mine’.
The designers of Group Project C-Mine-
» Dana Cannam – chair leg
» Joon Han Lee – chair seat
» Agata Karolina – chair back
» Christian Fiebig – table leg
» Amelia Desnoyers – table top
» Eugenia Morpurgo – table drawer
» Nati Moskovich – lamp base
» Naama Bergman – lampshade
» Itay Ohaly – lamp leg
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Product news: different modular elements stack up to make these pendant lamps by Croatian design studio Grupa (+ movie).
The mix and match lamps by Grupa are called ILI-ILI, which means “either-or”.
There are six modular elements to be combined in various ways.
Each module, made from powder-coated aluminium, is available in blue, green, yellow or grey,& in three shades of each colour.
Grupa was founded in Zagreb in 2006 by Filip Despot, Tihana Taraba and Ivana Pavic.
Similar products we’ve featured recently include stackable vessels made from marble, cut glass and 3D printed resin and a set of stackable lamps made from wood and recycled glass.
We’ve also featured lots of hanging lamps on Dezeen, such as a lamp made from ten metres of coiled electrical cord and another made from concrete and wood.
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The Studio Grupa is well-known Croatian design trio consisting of Tihana Taraba, Ivana Pavic and Filip Despot. They have presented several products over the last few years, presenting exceptionally good design with reasonable prices, thus creating original yet affordable designer products.
Grupa has a new product, series of lamps named ILI-ILI (EITHER-OR) which brings a completely new concept of the DIY approach to the Croatian lighting-fixtures market, i.e. design hanging fixtures, considering that their project enables the buyer to mix and match both shapes and colors. The designers created a concept based on six fundamental modular elements, different dimensions and diameters that can be mutually paired and combined, thus providing unlimited possibilities.
As the designers explain in their own words: “It’s possible to assemble six different elements through the simple act of linking them together, hence creating various lighting fixtures. The forms are adjusted according to dimensions, so they fit each other, while the elements are mutually connected with carrying clasps.”
In addition to matching and pairing various elements it’s also possible to combine several colour modules. The designers selected a spectrum of blue, green, yellow, and grey, through three shades of each. As the very photos illustrate, the color shades and their mutual combinations, with the six abovementioned forms, offer solutions that can be applied and used in various situations. The final choice of the product’s elements can lean towards either one colour or be complemented in a multi-coloured combination, always varying in form and shape.
This innovative approach towards the flexibility of the product and one’s own choice, along with the constant possibility of upgrading or changing, already known to the international market, conceptually aims at a wide spectrum of application and provides the user with a product that’s all but run-of-the-mill and boring.
“With the help of a recognisable manufacturing technique of metallurgy grinding and the traditional manufacturing art, the product is handmade from aluminium and powder coated in twelve different matte shades. Combining the traditional production technique with contemporary design opens up the possibility for users to design their own ideal combination, the choices are extensive, and as the name of the product states, it’s possible to mix and match them EITHER this way OR that.”
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