If there is one thing I can’t stand it’s the asinine descriptions for designer products that vastly overinflate the importance of the object and the people that created it. Take this Force Lamp for example. More »
This 7000lb behemoth chandelier has a 35-foot diameter of steel, glass and acrylic. It features 328 lights. And it only uses 1120 watts of electricity. Constructed by Meyda Tiffany for the e Stanley Theatre in Utica, New York, the opulence of a gigantic piece of lighting art is unquestionably more palatable when it’s not eating our coal, killing our dolphins, etc. Bonus shot after the jump.
What better than a pajama’ed gentleman swinging gracefully back and forth in the middle of your living room to make the statement, “I am an adult, and I have arrived.” Unlike traditional chandeliers, which have too many lights and too few places to hang off of, this trapeze chandelier allows five models to lounge around and work up a sweat—an event you’d usually have to pay good money to see. Would we want one? Of course, but it’s just a concept, meaning we’re going to have to make a trip down to Home Depot this afternoon with some pencils and a crumpled-up piece of graph paper. [Bernstrand via DVICE]
