The creatively conceived, less creatively named Bottleformball, a chandelier made out of recycled water bottles, debuted this week at the Milan Furniture Fair. I like to think of it as the beautiful moment all recycling spontaneously burst into being. [Inhabitat]
The enthusiastically titled “Fan-Tastic Chandel-Air” by Meyda lighting combines, you guessed it, a chandelier and a fan into one crazy looking customisable design.
The Drop Light is just a concept, but there’s nothing going on here that’s outside the realm of real world engineering. A normal light fixture at first glance, each bulb actually houses a rechargeable battery and a cool-burning LED, allowing, say, little Mary and Patrick to remove the fixture’s globes and take them around the house to read and do homework. Then again, every night at dinner could become one big blame game over who lost all of the light bulbs…again…before Mary flips out and Patrick says everything’s cool and Mary grabs a knife and Patrick says be careful and Mary drops the knife crying and Dad admits he took a bulb to work and the family has a group hug and Mary gets checked in to a care facility just in case. [Yanko Design]
Those little interlaced blades of ice you sometimes get on the edge of ultra-cold things in wet air: that’s the image that popped into my head on seeing the Cara lamp. It’s by designer Andreas Ostwald and that fragile crystal-like shape is composed of interlocked flat white circuit boards with silver tracks, sprinkled with 70 white LEDs. How lighting should be to my mind: simple, elegant and stunning. Though presumably it’s designer status gives it a price premium that’ll place it beyond my lustful reach. [Contemporist via LuxuryLaunches]
