If you ask anybody about top lamp design in Brazil, you will sure hear about Lumini and designer Fernando Prado. Fernando has been creating amazing award winning lamps, with intelligent solutions and beautiful, clean and very modern designs.
Lumini recently completed 27 years in the market, and their show room at Gabriel Monteiro da Silva street (the very well known design address in São Paulo), exhibits the pieces in a way that bows light
Fun and fabulous new lighting from Perch! The sunny Zooey Chandelier will bring the sunshine inside, match with either a Hans Wall Sconce or a Frida Desk Lamp for a complete look! The alluring Perch Birdfeeder and Lunchbox Birdfeeder will have a full flock in your yard in no time! And the original and adorable Early Bird and Black Bird Pendant Lights fit in anywhere.
New technology in the form of Rapid Manufacturing is changing the way designs are delivered from conception to completed product. Using the revolutionary form of printing known as Rapid Prototyping that builds up a 3D object layer by layer of polycarbons, nylon or other materials, Rapid Manufacturing or RM can produce actual prototypes in as little as a few hours. This gives advantages to designers in terms of flexibility throughout the process, a shorter production time-frame with implications for cost reduction, too, and expands the possibilities for mass customization of furniture, lighting, textiles or even architecture.
Taking the process a step further, Belgian firm Materialise and Dutch architect and designer Lars Spuybroek of NOX have developed MyLight.MGX lamps, a series of twenty-four different polyamide models, each similar but unique, that are printed directly from digital information, doing away with the need for molds. Part of Materialise's 2007 Private Collection, these lamps are the initial step into a world where consumers could access a design online and customize it to their individual requirements. Or as Spybroek says ‘we could breed objects like we breed rabbits...’ The lamps were featured in the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition at MoMA, New York,
Also shown at MoMA and made by Materialise, Patrick Jouin's One Shot Folding Stool uses Selective Laser Sintering or SLS to to fuse together small particles of polyamide producing the entire object, seat, legs and articulation, in a single process, layer by layer. When folded the stool is the size of an umbrella, expanded it becomes a full-size stool; the One Shot is both a functional object and a work of art.
Other design companies using Rapid Manufacturing include Freedom of Creation who work in textiles, digitally weaving designs that can easily be customized by shape, color or size to become trendy bags, lampshades, accessories and more.
Although the technology has been around for a few years, the possibilities of Rapid Manufacturing are only just being imagined.
With all the Earth Day events and green hype, have we forgotten about the world's largest furniture fair that just occurred last week in Milan? It was amazing. I have to thank Kay from Wallpaper Magazine for providing hundreds of photos of the show for me and all of the readers. Unfortunately, space is at a premium, so I've distilled the photos down to five. Three from Marcel Wander's Poliform show called My House of Dreams and two from Jaime Hayon's Bisazza Home Showroom.
Both Designers, I think, are projecting a much more baroque and fantastical future for contemporary design for years to come. Their work is predominated by white, smooth finishes with punctuations of color and shiny metals like gold. For lack of a better analogy, I would even say their styles, which were the most popular shows of the year, feel like stepping into Alice in Wonderland. Only time will prove if either designer's visions will be fully realized in mass consumer products, already, both designers make a large host of beutiful products that exude similar whimsy. To see and buy some of these designer's great stuff, check out:
New on 2Modern: Droog! Different and fun, Droog's products are wide-ranging; from Doorbells to Swings, Tablecloths to Parasols. Based in Amsterdam, Droog prides itself in "creating innovative concepts that change perspective."
I get very excited when I have the opportunity to combine two of my passions: light design and acrylic. This material has an amazing range of options, making possible incredible shapes and lighting effects. Also, the use of silk screen adds infinite possibilities of products.
Unfortunately, here in Brazil, acrylic is still an expensive raw material, but I hope this will change very soon. Some producers are starting to make well executed pieces with a fair cost. In my experience, I've noticed that consumers really understand the quality and design of acrylic made pieces, mainly in lighting products.
Here are some samples, all on sale at Tok&Stok.
Clara - pendant lamp (by Tok&Stok design team)
Cub Marble - table lamp (by Tok&Stok design team)
Cub Plancton - table lamp (part of Plancton collection by Tok&Stok design team)
Dux - table lamp (by Claudia Troncon)
Genesis - pendant lamp (part of Genesis collection ,by Tok&Stok design team)
The Little Prince - table lamp (part of "The Little Prince" collection, by Tok&Stok design team)
Roof - pendant lamp
Shadow Abajur - table lamp
Shadow Lamp - table lamp
"SCRAPILE is the collaborative work of designers Bart
Bettencourt and Carlos Salgado. Seeking to create a positive
environmental impact with their work, these two have developed a unique
method of collecting and repurposing discarded scraps of wood from New
York's woodworking industry." No two designs are ever quite the same, due to the varying wood-grain of the reclaimed wood used in each piece.
This is pure fun. Maybe is not a very good design, but you can't denied is a very original way to disguise an eco bulb. I think it will be better if we add some spongy screen on it, for exaggerate the cream feel of the lamp. But, anyway the idea is obvious...
Do you want some ice cream after see this?
Remember, always save the light at home, and try to use eco bulbs too.
Via espaciohogar.
Yet another fantastic find while wandering the Venice streets...
Zoolight Animal Lamps are the most adorable lit-tle creatures, made of bent tyvek, and although the ones I have seen have been clear/white/translucent material, I bet a cool colored bulb inside would be just the thing to make the kids go crazy over them!
My faves: the cow and the giraffe. Too cute.
Zoolight lamps are by Intermezzo, a Danish design company.
