Design Centre Chelsea Harbour and some amazing lighting
I spent last Sunday at London's Design Centre Chelsea Harbour along with my fellow participants in Modenus ' Blog Tour 2011 . The Design Centre Chelsea Harbour is a trade-only super mall of home products, furniture, carpets, fabrics, lighting a whole lot more.
The building itself is quite wonderful, here's a shot I took through one of the building's atriums as the clouds rolled over London on Sunday afternoon.
London's the handiest city where I've ever been that offers New York a real run for its money when it comes to sophistication and the amount of stuff available. In a number of approaches London exceeds what's feasible in New York however do not inform any of my New York buddies I stated that.
We started off the day with Samuel Heath, a purveyor of amazing bath fixtures and accessorie s. They're worth three or four posts of their own and I'll get back to them over the next few weeks. If you want a preview though, click on that link but be prepared to salivate.
After a series of meeting in and around the Design Centre, we were free to explore on our own. What I saw in total is fuel for more posts than I can count but something that really stood out was a series of deconstructed chandeliers from Vos Kristall .
I love a deconstructed chandelier. It epitomizes the impulse to take an iconic item and decrease it to its parts and then positioned some thing lower back together that invokes the authentic but is absolutely new on its personal.
Here are some of my admittedly bad photos of Vos Kristall's work.
Each element that could make up the chandelier (candle, bobeche, candle cup, prisms and pendalogue) is suspended by a single filament and lit from an LED inside the ceiling at once above. The impact is both huge and airy on the same time.
For more lighting inspiration, check out the rest of the lighting in Vos Kristall's web gallery .