Furniture, Interior Design & Product Design
Seattle-based graypants have introduced ‘TILT‘, a floor and desk series of their lamps featuring shades made from cardboard.
Locally crafted and built to last, each features a hand-blackened sturdy steel frame, porcelain lamp holder, textile wrapped cord, bottom felt pad, and durable rocker switch. Continue Reading →
Studio Voigt Dietrich presents some of their projects for those who love minimalism and style and doen’t want unnecessary details. The little Book Table out of beech can be used as a coffee table and bookstand at the same time. It’s a perfect piece of furniture for people who love to put things in order.
The X-Teile-Lampe is a lamp with an extremely variable shape and can be changed by a specially written script. The third piece is Drehbock – it’s a combination of swiveling stools and trestle. This thing plays with the theme of the differences between people. The encounter is between equals, it shows the balance of different interests, physical differences and variable uses are combined metaphorically.
The idea came after a visit in an automated car wash. Noticing how the car wash brushes completely alter their shape from flimsy drooping hair covered rods to massive powerful beams inspired the designer to create the Dervish Lamp.
The car wash brushes go from limp, to cones, to beams. A lamp could use this whimsical feature to direct light, from a tube of light to a cone, to an open light source. The contraption, with its spinning, would produce a rather considerable amount of wind. By morphing the ever-changing car wash brushes with a ceiling fan, a new product is achieved and completely redefines ceiling fans. The piece is called Dervish, it is spinning qualities remind one of the Turkish spinning dancers going in a trance.
Shira Keret designed inflatable, recyclable Lamps shaped like animals. The funny lamps are shaped like chicken, elephants, rabbits and even a rhino were carefully constructed from the non-woven white material, which was developed by Dupont back in 1955 and is frequently used for envelopes. A recycled PC fan that inflates them when litted makes them look nicely round. Shira Keret is a young Israeli designer, since 2010 a member in Four’n’ Five design group based in Jaffa port, Tel Aviv.
‘A glowing Lamp in the darkness of the Ocean’ …
The ‘cirrata’ Lamp series by swedish designer ‘Markus Johansson’ adopts the form of a see creature in a project that stretches the conventions of the use of corian polymer surface. His vision is to create innovative and sustainable design in the segment of product, furniture and identity. Johansson explored many materials and techniques in developing that which he finally used for ‘cirrata’. In the pieces, the heat-formable corian is molded on wooden bases to attain its unusual shape.
