Packing as much clever functionality as it does style, Roderick Vos’s Mr Ed lamp camouflages itself between the literary classics on your bookshelf. Not only does it prevent the works of J.K. Rowling and Suzanne Collins from toppling over, but it will also cast a warm glow in your home library.
After years of hegemony, the design pendulum is finally starting to swing back from modern, efficient design to an unvarnished, industrial aesthetic. Take, for example, this huge, heavy concrete slab filled with energy-annihilating incandescent lights.
It’s a little-known fact that’s rarely mentioned in the comic books, but in addition to battling the forces of evil with a cybernetic supersuit, Tony Stark also has a passion for stylish Art Nouveau lighting.
French designer Matali Crasset created this hanging Court Circuit lamp that embraces its function as its form. It’s made from raw undisguised circuit boards embedded with LEDs, but since they’re arranged like petals on a blooming flower, there’s still an organic feel to its design.
It might look like it claimed the lives of an entire drawer full of barbecuing tools, but Tom Dixon’s simple Stamp Lamp actually starts life as a boring flat sheet of zinc-coated steel.
As long as it doesn’t require any additional effort, people seem happy to embrace eco-friendly ideas. So to free people from having to remember to turn a light off when it’s not needed, Randy Sarafan created this handy lamp that turns off automatically whenever you close your eyes.
Although there are many lightbulb options open to the smart consumer, they all share one important trait: they’re all solid and don’t pop, unlike this bubble light.
Philips, the Netherlands-based lightbulb manufacturer that won a 2007 congressional contest to create an energy-saving replacement for the incandescent 60-watt bulb, plans to start selling their LED bulb (the “L bulb”) in stores just in time for Earth Day, this Sunday.
Since buildings are already engineered to be strong and, you know, not collapse, suspending even the heaviest of chandeliers from the ceiling is no problem. That’s to say there’s no rhyme or reason why a hanging light needs to be made from lightweight carbon fibre, except that it’s just plain beautiful.
