Since 2010 Brooklyn’s Wintercheck Factory has routinely rolled out new designs across apparel and homeware, to furniture and lighting. While the urge to design across all platforms is still alive and well, founder Kristen Wentrcek…
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Milan 2014: designer Alvaro Catalan de Ocon has created a range of wicker lamp shades woven with old plastic bottles by artisans in Chile for his PET Lamps project (+ slideshow).
Alvaro Catalan de Ocon and the PET Lamps team combined reused plastic bottles with traditional craft to create a second range of lighting called Chimbarongo, which hung from vines in the courtyard of Spazio Rossana Orlandi for Milan design week.
Named after the Chilean city close to Santiago in which the craftspeople who made them live and work, the lamps combine strips of recycled plastic bottles with local artisanal wicker weaving skills.
“The whole city is involved in working with wicker,” said Catalan de Ocon. “They normally do traditional and not very nice things but we went there and worked together for one month.”
Discarded plastic drinks bottles are adapted by chopping off the bottoms, then cutting the sides into thin strips up to the neck.
These strips are then woven with the wicker to form the lamp shades, mixing the coloured plastic with natural fibres to create patterns.
The idea was based on traditional Japanese stirrers made from bamboo in a similar way, said Catalan de Ocon.
“We got the inspiration from a Japanese bamboo piece from the tea ceremony,” he explained.
The old bottle necks provide structure and support for the lightweight material. A bulb is suspended below the neck and the electrical cord threads through the top.
The PET Lamp project originally began as a collaboration with weavers in Colombia, who created the first lamp collections that have simpler shapes but use more colours and patterns in the design of the shades.
“It’s the same concept but the result is quite different,” said Catalan de Ocon. “It is always dependent on the local craftsmanship.”
The Chimbarongo range has a loose weave and some feature two or three woven tiers, using the wicker in its natural hue.
“We decided to keep the original colour because they never tint it,” Catalan de Ocon explained.
The lights are available as sets, which can be strung up together from a single source, or as individual lamps.
Following the project’s debut at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in 2013, the new collection was on display in the gallerist’s courtyard for Milan design week earlier this month.
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Gravity keeps the aluminium and timber components of these lamp shades by industrial designer Nick Sadowsky locked together.
The pieces on the Spindent Light don’t use any screws or adhesives, instead relying on aligned component parts that slot into each other and are kept together by gravity and their own weight.
The light’s soft triangular shape features two pieces of anodised aluminium, separated by a thin strip of timber to create a minimal shade for either the home or office. A black fabric electrical cord completes the monochrome look.
“I was originally inspired by the aluminium spinning process and its capabilities,” said Australian designer Nick Sadowsky. “I looked at how I could make something both visually engaging and sustainable.”
The polished sheen of the metal is interrupted by the warm tones of the wood and its rough grain.
“I had a low-impact material and finishing process,” said Sadowsky. “It was then a matter of developing the form and I liked the idea of combining another material I really like, timber.”
The wood element connects the aluminium together, creating a small lip between the two pieces.
“Its qualities are warm and organic and could provide an interesting detail in the form and become part of the assembly, as I was trying to avoid any adhesives or screws,” explained Sadowsky.
The Spindent Lights are available in either black or silver from Sadowsky’s website.
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Introducing, Spot On– a pocket lamp as strong as automobile headlights and almost as small as a smartphone… but also stylish enough to bring indoors as a modern home lighting accent. Ingeniously simple, yet highly effective, the design transforms the light beam from the flashlight into a cone-shaped lampshade and therefore a fitment with a stylish shape. It’s a breath of fresh air in the living rooms of style-conscious sportspeople!
Designer: Maximilian Schmid
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From fashion to photography to furniture, recent years have seen a shift in the creative world’s overarching palette from highly saturated primary colors to a soft range of light corals, sea foams, baby blues, pale yellows and pinks. Some tones lean toward a more shimmery, nacreous vibe that melds well…
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Now you see it… now you don’t. This clever lamp is my latest obsession! Simply called LIGHT, it brings new meaning to “throwin’ shade.” Flip it on and light shines through a finely cut hole to create the illusion of a classic lamp shade shape against your wall. Minimal with a touch of humor, it’s attractive, interesting and a total conversation starter!
Designer: YOY
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Milan 2014: Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has created a modular chandelier, with strings of ovoid-shaped lights influenced by the shape of grapes hanging on a vine.
Claesson Koivisto Rune‘s Grappa chandelier for London company Wonderglass comprises glass diffusers produced in two slightly different lengths. These can be arranged along a central stem to create strings of glowing beads.
“Like a bunch of grapes on a vine, nature creates beauty through variation within repetition,” said the designers. “The bunch consists of a number of the same-shaped grapes but each grape varies slightly in size to the next.”
“With this mental image in mind, we have developed a concept based on stacking a series of lampshades to create columns of various lengths,” they added.
Influenced by the spectacular chandeliers that hang in palaces and grand buildings, the designers wanted to develop a modular product that can be used to create large installations as well as smaller lighting fixtures.
Combining the two elements in various configurations results in a multitude of subtly different installations that can be adapted to suit specific spaces.
The translucent glass shades diffuse light from rows of LED bulbs fixed to the surface of a transparent column and the LEDs can also emit coloured light if desired.
Wonderglass uses traditional glass-blowing facilities in Venice to produce the elements of its chandeliers. The brand also launched designs by Zaha Hadid and John Pawson at its Milan exhibition last week.
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Milan 2014: Swedish collective Note Design Studio has designed glass lamps mounted on wooden frames that resemble mind-bending illustrations (+ slideshow).
Stockholm-based Note Design Studio created the MCE Lamps for Belgian design brand Per/Use.
The design for the bases was influenced by illustrations and optical illusions by Dutch graphic artist MC Escher and Swedish graphic artist Oscar Reuterswärd.
The solid oak frame balances on three points and allows the globe-shaped lamp to rest on top.
A small circular opening at the top of the shade can be pointed in the desired direction by swivelling the ball.
“Depending on how you lean or tilt the bowl you can direct the light like a soft spotlight,” explained the designers.
The lamps come in gradated pastel shades in three different sized globes and frames.
They were displayed at Per/Use’s exhibition in Milan’s Brera district during the city’s design week, which concluded yesterday.
Here’s some information from Note Design Studio:
MCE Lamp for Belgian design brand Per/Use
The design of the wooden frame was inspired by the mathematical illustrations and optical illusions by M.C.Escher, Oscar Reuterswärd and their likes, hence the name MCE Lamp.
Of course this “impossible” frame is nothing but possible and it’s sturdy construction allows the big glass bowl to rest safely. The glass bowl is blown in three different sizes as the frame and the generous bowl elegantly hides the light source. Depending on how you lean or tilt the bowl you can direct the light like a soft spotlight.
The lamp was launched during Salone del Mobile 2014 by the Belgian design brand PER/USE at the Per/Use own exhibition Brera Design District in Via Dell’Orso 12.
The MCE lamp was originally designed as a one-off piece for the Glass Elephant exhibition during Stockholm Design Week.
The exhibition was a collaboration between Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair and ABB.
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