Posts Tagged as ‘light’

July 10, 2008

Turn Me On

Check out French photographer and designer, Marianne Maric’s Lamp Girls.

Her explanation:
These “lamp-girls” were first conceived as an illustration of the woman as a thing conveyed by the “entertainment world,” but gradually ascending to a state of consciousness. These photographs were part of a broader vision: once the costume was finished, the “living” model put it on [...]

April 3, 2008

ATE – IV

My fourth installment of All Things English… 
I had a feeling this would become a trend given peoples reactions to my previous post Tide Chandelier…

This, my friends, is literally glowing trash art… a.k.a. another trash chandelier.  And once again, it looks pretty cool. 

This design is by David Batchelor, who although actually Scottish, lives his life as a sculptor, artist, [...]

February 20, 2008

You Light Up My Life

People who say timing is everything have never been in a dressing room lit by florescent lighting.  Clearly “baby light” is everything… not only to my fragile ego but also your eyes.
Lighting that rocks…
The Arco Floor Lamp was designed in the 1960s.  The lamp was intended to illuminate the dining table and by providing overhead lighting that doesn’t [...]

November 6, 2007

Argh… Where’s me Eyepatch?

This chandelier is at the Theatre of Obsessions in the Jordaan section of Amsterdam.  I don’t even want to estimate how much that sucker weighs or the size of the house you would have to have in order to hang it but I love it… I am scared of it… but I love it.

October 19, 2007

Tide Chandelier

 
 This pretty light fixture is a creation by Stuart Haygarth called the Tide Chandelier.  Need a close up?

Now let me explain… this piece is made out of a collection of man-made debris that Stuart found over the past several years washed up on the Kent coastline.  He chose the sphere shape “as an analogy for the moon [...]