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Modern Lamp with Geometrical Base from Ralph Lauren

by Loredana Sava, posted in Lighting, on September 3rd, 2012

If you have a modern home and want to add some geometrical dimension to it in order to make it more interesting, you might think of getting this beautiful and unusual Modern Lamp with Geometrical Base from Ralph Lauren. It seems to me that this lamp is the haute couture in the lighting manufacturing. It has an interesting design and a fine and refined look, exhaling modernism and cubism, bringing you closer to Picasso and Dali and making your home look like the Museum of Modern Art. This is indeed a work of art combined with the usefulness of a table lamp and the best proof is the fact that it is offered on Ralph Lauren web site. This is really a guarantee of quality after all.

The most important feature of this lamp is its base. I mean the shape of the base is unusual, yet regular, being shaped like a dodecahedron. This might seem like a very strange word, but it actually depicts a geometrical shape that has twelve regular facets, each of them shaped like a pentagon. And if you can’t imagine what I have just described, then take a look at the lamp base and you will see one. So basically the design is pretty intricate and geometrical, but the result is beautiful. The base is made of wood and the lamp shade is made of linen. It sells for $378.

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Arion Lamp

by Loredana Sava, posted in Lighting, on September 3rd, 2012

History repeats itself again and again and so does fashion. And we call it “retro style”. Well, many time all the new designers take a step back and look at the old things that were famous some time ago: masterpieces of designed that appeared in the twentieth century. They admire them and give them a new interpretation – their interpretation and give birth to a new and fresh item instead of throwing the old piece in the trash. Meet Arion Lamp, a lamp that was reborn from its own ashes, thanks to a visionary designer, added a few modern touches and manufactured again after an iconic midcentury lamp. The old lamp used to be a lot smaller, so what it lacked was size. It overcompensated now with bigger proportions (26″H x 17.5″ D x 6″W) and an impressive marble base that offers the lamp enough stability to put it on the side table, desk and even floor.

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Rattan Ball String Lights

by Loredana Sava, posted in Lighting, on September 2nd, 2012

Lamps are useful and make light for us to see the place surrounding us. Even when going or staying outdoors we still needs ligh at night, but in this case it is a bit more difficult to use lamps, so people try to find out other ways of combining the two. So they go for hanging strings of light that can make beautiful atmosphere, too. There are plenty of coloured string lights, but why settle with the most regular and dull ones when you can have something totally extraordinary and natural, too? These are the Rattan Ball String Lights that will bring a special touch of natural and eco to your garden or outdoor party.

I know rattan is normally used for outdoor furniture, but apparently it is perfect for making bals that will hold a light bulb inside. When these rattan balls are on a string and connected to each other you will have the most unusual yet amazing lighting piece for outdoors. The strings have about 10 rattan balls connected together in a set and they also have a 112″ long cord that connects them to the power supply.

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Glass Bottle Lamps by DeGross Studio

by Ionut Ciofu, posted in Lighting, on September 1st, 2012

Lamps are a big part of our everyday life. Whether you are at home chilling and reading a good book or at your office looking over some papers, lamps make your activity much easier and more fun.I’m saying all that because we’ve all stumbled across lamps and we know them and we appreciate them for what they are.Lamps come in a huge variety of shapes, colors, elements, purposes and so on, I don’t have to tell you that because you probably know better, but what you don’t know is that some people continue to make lamps with out-of-the-box designs, totally original and from the most unusual materials.

Take this design studio in London called DeGross, they have managed to create marvelous lamps from upcycled glass bottles found on the back of their studio and some wood offcuts from their neighbor.

With a lot of talent and creative ideas this team built marvelous lighting fixtures from bottle tops and as you can see what they have done is no amateur job. They took their work and products built from scrap materials to a professional level and more than that their creations has a nice premium feel despite the fact the making process looks strikingly similar to a DIY project.

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Interesting lights for your pad

by Ionut Ciofu, posted in Lighting, on September 1st, 2012

Lighting fixtures nowadays have much more meaning and significations that they used to have back when lighting was considered just a necessity and something with a strict destination.If we take a look back in the recent history we will see that since modern light bulbs were invented, light was used to enhance, to highlight and to set the mood in certain places. Theaters started using lights to enhance the décor, bars, night clubs and so on. Now, light is something we take for granted and therefore a lot of new ways of enhancing our interior and exterior places appeared.

With a super-cheap light bulb hooked up to a bunch of wires you can have another light source in your home, the challenge is to make it interesting and fun because simple, plain light fixtures found at your local store are dull and impersonal. If you want something that will suit your taste entirely and will do exactly what you imagined you better start building it yourself.

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Sweet and Lovely Hut Pendant Light

by Simona Strachinaru, posted in Lighting, on August 28th, 2012

Home sweet home! Everybody loves to say these words thinking of their warm and sweet home that it is waiting for them all the time. All the people love to have their own place where they can do whatever they want, rest whenever they please, arrange their things the way they like it and have their own nest, warm and pleasant where they can come and forget about some other problems.

Kristian Aus must have had in mind these words too when he designed these sweet and warm house lamps. Actually his project is called Hut Pendant Light and it was created for the new Australian Interior product brand, UNDER. They are made of powder coated steel and acrylic and hang from the ceiling making the others look up to their warm light. Their roofs have different colors so that they become even sweeter and joyful. The house shape and their warm light will always make you think of your lovely and welcoming home. Now you have also the opportunity to create a warm and intimate ambiance to their soft light.

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The industrial Pulley double pendant

by Simona Ganea, posted in Lighting, on August 27th, 2012

The pulley is a simple invention that has not only functional benefits but also aesthetical implications. One beautiful example would be this industrial Pulley double pendant. It is an exact reproduction of an antique light and it functions on a die-cast pulley system.The pendant has a simple design with strong industrial influences, just like the one that inspired its design. It moves up or down to provide light to a certain space or to focus the light on a specific area. This is possible thanks to a counterweight that allows it to hold its position.

Available at the price of $329, this beautiful pendant would make a distinguished and unique addition to a variety of living room decors and it would also be an interesting focal for the dining room, above the table.

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