Just because you’ve grown up and tossed your spray cans doesn’t mean you have to suppress your love for graffiti art. This modern Pendant Lamp comes in two different graffiti designs, uniting street cred and home decor in a seamless fashion. The lamp’s shade is created by using a photographic print on transparency and comes continue reading…
We’ve featured some eccentric lighting before, but none of those can compare to Alex Randall’s work. In lieu of new materials, the British lighting designer raids salvage yards and taxidermy shops to create truly innovative and often creepy ‘bespoke’ lighting installations. Among the disturbing creations are the pigeon pendant seen here, while others such as continue reading…
Typically, the last thing you want to see before your head hits the pillow is a gun. Except in the case of this fierce beauty. Released in 2005, The Gun collection by Philippe Starck is a series of lamps consisting of table and floor models. The ‘gun’ used in the Bedside Gun Lamp is made continue reading…
Ruggedly natural with just a touch of urban flair, these lights help you stick to simple style. Not as upright (and uptight) as a traditional floor lamp, Stick Lights create a casually cool vibe as they lean against the wall. From your cabin in the woods to your loft in the big city, they manage continue reading…
Now that you mention it, those energy efficient light bulbs do kinda look like soft serve ice cream. It’s not just because we have a sweet tooth; in one of these sugar cone lights from Mixko, even a regular round bulb looks like a scoop of ice cream. These sweet light fixtures really light up continue reading…
Since you can’t build LEGO houses in the dark, you’ll need all the extra lighting (and LEGO bricks) you can get. The LEGO Brick Light mounts to the wall, under shelves or anywhere you need a little light. And because it IS a LEGO block, it can be pulled apart from its mount so you continue reading…
A loyal companion through and through, what would you do without your faithful bedside lamp? Dog Lamp by Chaiyut Plypetch features a fun minimalist design that makes you connect with an ordinary object in a familiar way. Without any distinct features Dog Lamp still packs enough personality to warm our hearts and light up our continue reading…
City dwellers in small apartments may be jealous of big homes with big luxuries like built-in fireplaces, but you don’t need a fireplace to enjoy a nice fire—heck, you don’t even need firewood. (No, we don’t mean burning trash barrels on the street but we respect your resourcefulness) This beautiful centerpiece radiates light and warmth continue reading…
Speakers have been getting smaller and smaller and now instead of using 3 foot tall speakers as something to put picture frames and vases on, we hide little 3″ cube speakers anywhere we can. But wouldn’t it be great to hide them in plain site? The Lightspeaker does all of the creative “hiding” for you continue reading…
Millions of books are printed each year, and you’d be surprised to know how many are discarded. Lucy Norman, a freelance designer based in London, makes use of these wasted books by re-purposing them into intriguing chandeliers. Giving new meaning to the term “reading light,” we can’t help but wonder if they give off that continue reading…