Part of the Inhabitat Bright Ideas competition in conjunction with Phillips, The Pinha Lamp by Shay Alkalay and Yael Mer of Raw Edges is a fun idea on a flexible lamp. The molded cork fixture wraps around a hanging florescent bulb, allowing you to pin almost anything you want to it, creating your shade. I love this idea, it’s a playful approach to lighting through personalization.
The Trapeze LED Table Light, designed by Peter Stathis of Virtual Studio in partnership with JOBY, is an elegant LED task light that can be maneuvered to direct the light in any direction. The light is available in two sizes, the smaller of which has two axis, and the larger, 3 axis of movement. The small Trapeze light sells for $300 and the large for only $350 over on JOBY’s online store with your choice of white or blue!
Another amazing light from this years ICFF, the Branch light from Rich Brilliant Willing is a vibrantly colored light that comes in four styles, floor standing, table top, sconce, and a chandelier with a multitude of color variations. Branch uses bent plywood arms attached to a central “hub” that each have their own light source diffused with an elegant perforated brass shade . You can order the light with either one, two, or three arms to fit various lighting needs.
So. ICFF was a bit of a let down this year but there were still some amazing little gems.
Rocking Lamp by the London based studio Young & Battaglia for Mineheart is a really fun lamp that literally rocks. The white cotton lampshade sits on beautifully crafted solid Beech rockers and comes in both a table-top version and a larger floor version.
The brilliant Clothespin Lightbulb pendant lamp by designer Steffi Min redefines how we interact with our lamps. The day of screwing in a bulb are gone, using the simple mechanism of the clothespin, the light bulb is clamped into place.
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The beautiful Papela lamp by Tel Aviv based product designer Meirav Barzilay is hand stitched from Tyvek and features a brightly printed solid color on the interior of the shade. The lamp can be balled up, tossed around and re-hung to give it an soft wrinkled feeling.
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I love the brilliant idea behind the Favorite Thing pendant lamp by Stockholm based Hommin. Its the perfect place to display your favorite small objects! The clean and simple design features a clear “shade” that acts as a lit display case for your small cherished nick-knacks.
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The Bookmark Lamp by the French designer Léonard Kadid brilliantly uses a book as its base, being really clever while also reducing the lamps material usage. The lamp itself is made from two pieces of plied veneer, bent in two places, with high efficiency LEDs embedded in it. This light weight, extremely efficient lamp fits perfectly anywhere, on a bed-side table, a desk, or anywhere else you need task lighting.
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The Glow lamps by Dutch designer Marc de Groot are simple & elegant. They feature a stainless spring-steel armature with stretched fabric shade, a perfect marriage of tension and compression. The floor standing model features a sleek wire steel base that seems to disappear when glanced at quickly, giving the lamp a floating feeling. It comes in a white shade or a black one and in different 5 sizes.
The beautiful L002 Pendant Light by the Italian architecture duo Alberto Basaglia & Natalia Rota Nodari for the furniture and lighting manufacturer Pedrali is made of two nested shades of polycarbonate. This lamp re-images the iconic pendant lamp shape and gives it a new dimension, the outer shell is translucent creating a beautiful void, when the lamp is turned on, between the the diffuser and the outer surface.
Available in red, yellow, & white translucent versions, and white & black in the opaque version.
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