If you’re in Milan you can see it for yourself at At Spazio Rossana Orlandi. From the designers:

“The main idea behind the desk lamp CONST are three basic components; base, body and shade. Keeping in mind these simple elements and their role, The design playfully combines expression with function. The marble  base keeps the octagon-shaped wood body balanced and at the same time,  one can adjust the angle of the shade by rotating it. Reminiscent of playing  with block toys, CONST gives one the ability to have fun with functionality.”

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Named after the rays of a sun in a child’s drawing, the shade is laser-cut from thin metal that can be bent or adjusted into a variety of angles. Clustered tightly together, the light will focus strongly on one point, but open up the rays and you get a softer effect. The lights look great clustered together in one color as well as in multiple shades (I smell a restaurant interior…) or alone. Even though this takes its inspiration from children’s drawings, I could really use something bright and cheerful in my grown up apartment. Let’s hope NgispeN makes them available to the public soon.

You can see the light at NgispeN’s booth as well as the Temporary Museum for New Design in Superstudio Piu. [ claesson koivisto rune ]









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Kristin Five Melvaer

Reminiscent of glowing candles, Melvaer’s Sunday lamps set the perfect mood for waking up, going to sleep or relaxing on, say, a Sunday afternoon.





I also love Ray, which feels more like a sketch for a finished lamp. Due to its “unusual appearance and large size,” says Melvaer, Ray lamps are more like “functional sculptures.”





Pablo Figuera

This Barcelona-based designer also creates sets and graphics, but it’s his Folio lamp I like best. The perfect modern desk lamp, Folio can be easily adjusted to various heights. I also appreciate that the cord is in a bright color, making it part of the design instead of a necessary evil.

Luca Nichetto

Another Stockholm debut, the Vader lamp may have been a crowd favorite but it’s way too bubbly, plasticky, early iMac for me.





Monocomplex

This Japanese studio’s Scene #01 lamp is just too much lamp for me. There are branches, some kind of moon shape and a base that feels like an afterthought. This is also a case where a contrasting cord doesn’t work. I don’t even think Monocomplex knows what it really is. They call it “an illumination lamp…a skinny branch is reaching over a window. suddenly the moon emerges making a picture within frame that is called window completed. The branch is fixed, and moves as time goes. through this, the plane view on the window represents ‘momentary instant’ within three dimensions.”

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designer: jonah takagi

Price: $80 USD and link to the online store.

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Working in the same vein as the Stuhlhockerbank, Bina Baiterl’s Mutant Lamp Rugs are a playful take on design, even if they are slightly less functional. More art piece than actual rug or lamp, Baitlel’s lamp/rug composites are beautifully handcrafted with supple leather in the most gorgeous, yet subtle tones of grey and creme. The leather mat is designed to emulate the light spilling from the lamp, only represented in a tangible form. Though Baitel’s work as an architect and designer has more practical applications, Next Level Galerie in Paris specially commissioned this series from her, giving her the enviable freedom to work on a professional and personal level.

designer: bina baitel

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an award-winner in design.

Price: $395 – 445 USD

Producer: humanscale

Designer: vere isham (uk)
Producer: mogaco

Dutch brand Moooi launches new collection at Superstudio in Zona Tortona, including a timber lamp by Welsh designers Fresh West.

These are just some of the items found in New York mid-May. The main draw was the International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Javits Center, but there were many off-site events to go to. One was the Hardcore Finnish Design exhibit featuring 20-plus Finnish designers.

Highlights included pieces from Miyake, Janne Kyttanen, Mikko Laakkonen and Pentagon Design. Kyttanen’s impressive thirty-eight piece chandelier, inspired by growth patterns in palm trees, was created with rapid manufacturing technologies. Laakkonen had several pieces on display including Vege, a set of cast iron pans and the Latva coat rack, modeled after the top branches of a tree. Pentagon Design pushed the boundaries of paint technology, with life-sized animals covered in innovative paints made to mimic textures and encourage interaction with magnetic and chalkboard surfaces.

Other works included glass knives by Noa Bembibre, industrial inspired pillows by Fokus Fabriks, a watch made from the kickstart pinion of an old Harley Davidson by Stepan Sarpaneva and LED desklamps by SAAS Instruments.

do! DIY cutlery designed by Arihiro Mayake.

tiger electric shoe designed by Janne Kittanen

touching tactile surfaces designed by Pentagon Design

veg pans designed by Mikko Laakkonen

hardcore finnish design