Eco-friendly design: light from milk bottles

Eco-friendly design: light from milk bottles

Also, old milk bottles can be stylish tune and use it sustainably – in which case they are to fancy table lamps. Designed by Alexandru Adam and Steven Koch’s design. In each set includes the lamp is not only everything you need for light but also a selection of prints, with which one can make the extravagant... 

Nomadic lifestyle

Nomadic lifestyle

Urban nomads love to their furniture can break down at any time (very fast) and take it. If the sofa does not just have to be so inflated, possibly rich concrete bags, old tires and some Evian-Flaschen to create a cozy nomadic dwelling. Ideas of Nochi, Wyssem & Cécile (www.on-off.com.lb). In terms of recycling and... 

Floral design and flower nests

Floral design and flower nests

Marcel Wanders staged traditional patterns in bright colors for Moooi, and – as it should be otherwise from a Dutch company – decorated with tulips. The light in the picture is called Lolita. If the lamp is as seductive as a Lolita, was once an open question. I find it funny anyway. A whole “bouquet”... 

Glow by Front Design

Glow by Front Design

The 4 Swedish girls Sofia Lagerkvist, Charlotte von der Lancken, Anna Lindgren, Katja Sävström with their label front design very busy and very popular, even by me. There is not a design that does not like me. Seen in their new coin in Milan lights glow. More info at www.frontdesign.se Would certainly be desirable to... 

Contemporary light ideas: Chocolite by Nemo Cassina and Vinta Design

May 8, 2011 Filed Under: Accessories, Lighting Tags: , , ,
Contemporary light ideas: Chocolite by Nemo Cassina and Vinta Design

Funny idea for a lamp: The base of the lamp looks like a delicious chocolate icing, the lamp shade as the chocolate on top. The design for this “tasteful” lamp comes from the Japanese design duo Vinta Kouhei Okamoto and Toshitaka with founder Nakamura. www.nemo.cassina.it Both like to deal with time and have... 

Flynn Talbot: White/Gold interactive light

Flynn Talbot: White/Gold interactive light

For his solo exhibition at HELMRINDERKNECHT of 26 February to 26 March 2011 has developed the young Australian lighting designer Flynn Talbot interactive light object X&Y, its intensity and color by simply touching and rotation can be changed. This allows an individual and at the same time sensory access to the light.... 

Better Living with shit

Better Living with shit

The Norwegian company Northern Lighting calls her new lamp that looks like an exploding light bulb, just shit. And secured with the current naming immediately worldwide reporting network. Anyway, looks extremely funny. For more information www.northernlighting.no The product description reads very nicely: Shit creates... 

DIY ideas: lampshade and wall painting

DIY ideas: lampshade and wall painting

Sometimes overlooked is not so, that we are in terms of pattern and color inspirations biggest fans of the Finnish company Marimekko. Therefore we were delighted, as is always started as a mod Marimekko’s blog recently. Nice idea on the blog are also instructions for self-creation, for example, from lampshades and... 

Interior in Kortrijk: Issues and Trends

May 5, 2011 Filed Under: Design, Lighting Tags: , , , , ,
Interior in Kortrijk: Issues and Trends

In any case worth a visit. And even before the IMM or the really big news show in Milan, we have been able to discover one or the other product presentation. Allen first: Dark lighting manufacturer with the new “Spacewalker” – Design by Constantin Wortmann. Anyway, the lights of Dark and the entire state... 

Metropolitan Light Concept for Berlin S-Bahn bridge

Metropolitan Light Concept for Berlin S-Bahn bridge

The Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development has announced the non-cooperative open design competition of ideas and develop a lighting concept for the Berlin metropolitan railway bridges in the City West. The competition is aimed at lighting designers, though cooperation with artists, designers, architects and landscape...