Fun, modern lighting
I came across the Neon Chandelier by Matt Diller three years ago in the debut issue of The New York Times' T Magazine .
I love the idea of reinterpreting an icon, and rendering a classic chandelier in neon does that to first-rate impact. It's lovely, current and whimsical. That's a killer combination in my book. I've visible this element in person multiple instances and guy, it may prevent visitors. Then once more, I've in no way seen it everywhere however on the Isle of Manhattan. I can best consider that its effect would be magnified tenfold out right here in the hinterlands.
I was on Dwell 's website this morning and Jasper van Grootel's Voltaire sconce is their hot product of the day. Dwell's website is a great resource for where to go to get modern stuff for your home. The Voltaire is available, as are all of these lights I'm posting today, through a website called Generate .
Van Grootel's "Fantastic Plastic" series takes every day gadgets and places an interesting spin on them. In the case of the Voltaire sconce, he is taking a antique wall sconce, reconditions it after which cots it in a shiny blue rubberized plastic. Don't confuse it for a fragile art piece although. It's weather proof and may be used interior or out.
Yosuke Watanabe's Silhouette lamp is another exercise in modernist whimsy. Watanabe takes the the suggestion of a wall sconce and turns it into a focal point. One of the central tenets of modernism as an aesthetic movement is to pare down detail and to reduce an object to its unadorned, functional state. Reducing a wall sconce to nothing but its shape and its function --illumination-- is brilliant.
Takeshi Ishiguro's Book of Lights throws another curve ball with the idea of modernist whimsy. This lamp is a pop-up book that functions as a reading lamp when it's open and turned on. Talk about a brilliant idea. Ishiguro took two functions and combined them and I can say in all honestly that I've never seen anything like it. Not only that, this Book of Lights is an idea I can't imagine myself ever coming up with. Hilarious and inspired at the same time. Too cool!
