Lambent Chair by Glen Lewis Steele

Inspired by a collapsible, wooden, giraffe toy from my childhood, the ‘Lambent Chair’ is designed to shed light where you need it. Be it casting a soft light over a room or directing it down onto the fine text of your novel. A glowing switch placed behind the braid allows for the lamp to work by itself when not being used as a seat. However when you choose to sit on its floating seat, your weight compresses an inbuilt spring loaded mechanism. Activating an internal system of tension wires which tighten and loosen like tendons in a finger, causing the lamp to angle down towards you and then straighten back up when you stand. The New Zealand beech wood and Techflex, silica, braided shaft seemingly dangle from the striking, crescent, LED lamp. All adding to the illusion of an ethereal piece of furniture.

 source: DesignCreme

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Après Collection by UM Project

 François Chambard of UM Project has unveiled his awe-inducing new collection made especially for Reclaim NYC.

 The Après Lamp 3 has a shade made of weathered "classic" garbage can found on a Red Hook street, which is lined by an insert graciously made of left-over felt by ElasticCo in Brooklyn. The inside light fixture is made of Corian® donated by regional distributor Dolan & Traynor, based in Wayne, NJ. The base is made out of ash left over from our recent series of Atum lamps. 

The Après Lamp 1 is made of a rusty steel base salvaged at the Token shop in Red Hook after the storm, a re-purposed brass shade from one of our L.U.M. Lamps, and left-over ash wood from some of our recent projects. 

  The Après Lamp 2 is made of a salvaged electrical junction box found on a Red Hook street after the storm, a base made from the top of one of our discarded Holy Stools and Corian® donated by regional distributor Dolan & Traynor based in Wayne, NJ, as well as left-over maple wood from from some of our recent projects. The wooden parts have been graciously turned by Custom Wood Turning in Astoria, Queens.

 The three Après Vessels are made of rusty steel punched forms salvaged at the Token shop in Red Hook after the storm, as well as pine and maple wood left over from some of our recent projects. The wood is lacquered with finishing products graciously donated by Abbot Paint in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. 

 
UM Project// Apr © Francis Dzikowski/Esto

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A intersection B by Kim Myung Hyun

Designer's description:
As the number of single tribe increases, new alternative furniture for the single people is introduced in the living environment. They are active in spending money for themselves, and they prefer the furniture that reflects their taste enough. Moreover, they want the optimized products for efficient utilization of space. Traditionally, the strategy to save the space was to stacking or folding. Differently from that, A intersection B’s approach is to putting another leg into a transparent leg, which provides visual satisfaction and effective utilization of space. A intersection B consists of a black stand, a tea table or a stool, a desk, and a book-box. Those components can be added to each other and also be independent, which creates around 20 combinations with various functions. Such variety is based on the simple system of sharing the legs. Our needs and tastes were reflected in this furniture to make it more incorporated in our life.

source: DesignCreme

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Stripped Lamp by Floris Wubben

With the Stripped lamp dutch designer floris wubben  transformed a piece of nature  into a standing lamp, by a minimum number of modifications. It is an honest product, in which the natural form of the tree branch has been kept as much as possible. Stripped is made out of one branch only, which is split into three parts beneath. As a result, the legs of a standing lamp are made. The bark is almost entirely pealed from the branch and with a rotating movement formed into a lamp-shade. Each part of the tree branch obtains a new function, without losing its natural and exceptional appearance. The original form of the branch will determinate the final form of the lamp. Therefore, every lamp is a unique piece of design.

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Good Boy and Good Puppy Lamps by Whatshisname

Good Boy lamp and  Good Puppy table lamp were designed as an item of everyday use that makes user uncomfortable with every use. The On/Off switch is shaped as a turd that needs to be stepped on, or in case of Good Puppy table lamp is shaped as a turd that needs to be pressed. Puppy is in its natural pose, looking around with a bit of surprise on her face.
Both lamps were supposed to be part of London’s the Art Below exhibition on London Underground stations. Unfortunately they were banned by London Underground due to being offensive.

source: www.whatshisname.co.uk

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FRANCIS LIGHTS BY DMOCH

Designer's description:

"Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most."- Francis Ford Coppola

We’re importing poetic and humorous values in to lighting, all from the very start in the process to the end of life of the objects. The starting point of project Francis was to create lamps in spin formed aluminium. We started collaboration with a craftsman who still does this technique by hand. In Sweden there are today only a handfull people who keep this craft alive. The project has been to highlight the talent of the craftsmanship by challenging him by making shapes that puts his craftsmanship to the test. After getting the shapes from Holger, who worked with the metal parts, we transformed the shapes by pushing and cutting them in different ways. Trying to find unique lamps in the new shapes that were born.

source: www.dmoch.se

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