Low energy light bulbs didn’t have the best start in life, aesthetically speaking at least. But British designer Sam Wilkinson’s new prizewinning 001 bulb for Plumen is much more like it.
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French designer Sam Baron has created three invertible vases for Italian brand Secondome. Lovely, aren’t they?
For fans of the fabulous Bouroullec brothers, a visit to their temporary summer exhibition space in Le Corbusier’s Radiant City apartment building would feel like an afternoon among friends…
Bathroom scenes from the sparkling Patricia Urquiola designed Mandarin Oriental five star in Barcelona. No tricks, just understated luxury pure and simple.
A designer with attitude (just don’t call her design style ‘feminine’), Inga Sempe‘s new LED desk lamp w103 for Swedish brand Wastberg is now showing at the Temporary Museum for New Design in Zona Tortona during Milan Design Week.
A proper, grown-up, beautiful new light from British designer Jasper Morrison, Smithfield by Flos.
Would-be collectors of the best new work to come out of studio Bouroullec in the last little while will need to be as quick as they are cashed up, with each of the lamps in the brothers’ new collection for Bitossi Ceramiche a limited edition of 49 pieces worldwide. Lampada is now showing at London’s Vessel Gallery as part of Super Design.
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As virtuous as they are beautiful, Arba are a new family of environmentally responsible lighting designed by Matteo Thun and Antonio Rodriguez for Belux. Choosing sustainable maple wood for both the shade and the base, Thun isn’t shy about highlighting the struggle many of us have with low-energy lamps, describing the aim for the project as creating light that is warm, natural and familiar, ‘despite state-of-the-art sources’.
Master Murano glass-makers Barovier & Toso do glamour with the best of them. And perhaps no more effortlessly than at Milan design week, where the Murano icon reissued its fabulous vintage 1966 Samurai lamps, in new ‘extra large’ table lamp and pendant versions, exclusively for Euroluce.
There’s something wonderful about this credenza by Alessandra Baldereschi. One in a series of ‘four seasons’, this is summer. Last year in Umbria I met a young artisan who made cabinets and armoires very similar to this one in the traditional manner, the way his father and grandfather before him had done. He was looking for a new angle. Something distinctive to grow his market while staying true to artisanal values. Baldereschi must have been listening.
The console is one of 50 new pieces from the just-minted first collection of Italy’s youngest design brand, Skitsch. Meaning the opposite of kitsch in Italian, Skitsch is the love child of ex B & B Italia/Mooi mover and shaker Renato Presi and design maven (and Skitsch creative director) Cristina Morozzi. The brand refuses to be defined by any style tag, preferring instead to cultivate a deliberately mixed stable of young and established, mainly Italian designers, all lovingly encouraged to do their own thing.
Skitsch has just opened in grand style in Via Monte di Pieta’ 11, downtown Milan, to coincide with il Salone del Mobile. And with profile and pedigree to outdo any design start-up on the planet, we certainly won’t be the only ones keeping an eye out.