Down with bourgeois crystal chandeliers, bourgeois lampshades and boring halogens! It’s time to light up your home with lamps made of concrete, rubber and silkworm cocoons.
Lighting designers have always been keen on daring experiments and hooligan antics. The sentimental glass blowers of the island of Murano turned chandeliers into orchards, the harsh Danes into artichokes. After all, a light source can take almost any sculptural form and at the same time successfully fulfill its function. But in the last twenty years, chandeliers, floor lamps and lampshades have often taken on completely insane amorphous outlines.
Fashion chandeliers
- Catherine Kulberg, author of the lamp Norwegian Forest, believes that her veneer lampshade is ideal for a Russian dacha. Indeed, both the light tree and the touching Christmas trees are like relatives for us. Alas, the world is imperfect: the masterpiece of Norwegian design is not for sale in Russia.
- When purchasing such a lamp, get ready for the constant questions of amazed guests: “What is IT made of?” Even up close it is difficult to believe that “THIS” is the work of man and, in general, an object of terrestrial origin. Actually a lamp Branching, Ango, made from silkworm cocoons.
- Designers from Ango do not make interior items, they create a utopia: what else can you call life in harmony with nature, but among the benefits of civilization? All Ango objects are made from natural, sometimes quite exotic ingredients. Floor lamp shade Supertripod, looking like a slightly combed stork’s nest, is twisted from rattan.
And recently, almost no light “lamps” have come into fashion, the role of which is completely decorative: to create an atmosphere, in the manner of … It also came to materials. Not limited to glass shades and fabric lampshades, designers use literally everything, up to and silkworm cocoons. In part, this freedom of action was made possible by the rapid proliferation of “cold” () lamps – now there is no danger that the lampshade will overheat and light up. Part of the “chaos” is due to the fact that the actual work lighting is increasingly entrusted with hidden built-in lamps.
- Everything is now made of concrete: tables, chairs and even lamps. Two options from Tove Adman: a low floor lamp at the same time will warm your feet, and a concrete spiral Light mask (“Firefly”) will decorate the interior and, on occasion, will pass for an abstract sculpture.
- Flexlamp Is a classic form embodied in an unexpected material: ! And when moving, it will not be beaten, and it is easy to pack! Designed by Sam Hecht for Droog Design.
- Cast concrete lampshade with deliberately rough seams – ideal for lofts that are fashionable today and any other industrial style interiors. The designer Michel Charlot has turned the usually carefully smoothed seams into a decorative element. A strong move, isn’t it?
- Lamps by David Trubridge are designed like a children’s designer. Instead of a ready-made lampshade, the buyer is offered a set of thin plywood parts, which must be fastened to each other on their own. In the model Coral asymmetrical snowflakes fold into an openwork ball. Double benefits: lighting and entertainment!
- Designer Amy Hunting is a die-hard environmental fighter. She makes furniture from scraps, sawdust and other wood waste. 12 lampshades of different diameters Babooshka Amy made out of a single cube, glued together from scraps of wood, each carved from the middle of the previous one. Lampshades are embedded in each other like nesting dolls.
Thus, lamps have a pleasant duty to be a kind of designer curiosity with a funny story or an abstract sculpture that is designed to please the eye. But in fairness, we must admit that new technologies and unconventional materials often turn out to be quite practical and competitive. One way or another, thanks to them, there are more bright moments in our life.
- The owner of such a hanging lamp is his own designer: whatever shirt (or other piece of the toilet) you hang on it, this one will shine. Therefore, such a lamp is not in danger of getting bored or out of fashion. Hector’s design Serrano for Droog Design.
- Lamp Lightbrick from Form Fjord does not just look like a brick – it really is a brick! How the designers managed, without splitting, to make a hole in it for a light bulb is a secret of the company. The brick retains heat for more than an hour after the light is turned off, so it can be successfully used as a small, environmentally friendly heater.
- Chandelier Barbwire – a thing with deep connotations. Swedish designer Tove Adman came up with this object while traveling in Germany during the fall of the Berlin Wall. Barbed wire symbolizes political barriers, light bulbs symbolize hope. And the shape of the lamp repeats the chandeliers in the palace of the Swedish kings of Drottningholme.
- Designing rubber lamp InnerTube, the designer Sylvain Wilenz effectively played on the possibilities of elastic material. The ring lamp is simply inserted inside the lampshade – or rather, on the contrary: the rubber sheath is pulled over the lamp, like a tire on a bicycle wheel.
- Fixtures Aprilthat look like shining waterfalls, designer Sharon Marston makes herself, by hand, in her London studio. For their manufacture, she uses optical fiber and a wide variety of additives: thin-woven metal mesh, polymers, glass.
- Lamp Bubbles Star most of all reminiscent of fantastically persistent soap bubbles. But in fact, the Polish duo Puff Buff uses a slightly infantile and very unexpected material for their lamps: PVC. A soft lampshade is pumped with air like an inflatable toy.