Los Angeles based glass artist Alison Berger has added a new light fixture to her collection.

Inspired by mercury glass and the complex silhouettes of baroque chandeliers, the Mirrored Pendant Chandelier combines these two aesthetics into a contemporary form. To achieve the mirrored effect, Berger uses a technique by which colored glass is oxidized on the crystal’s surface, resulting in a mirrored sterling silver effect, that when lit, illuminates red. The fixture is comprised of twenty-five crystal pendants in varying heights of 6.5” – 8”. Brushed nickel hardware adds another layer of ornamental detail to the piece.

The prototype of this Chandelier is currently featured in Holly Hunt’s Miami Showroom.

Visit Alison Berger’s website – here.

Hansa Latrava is the latest design added to the Hansa series of bathroom faucets from Munich, Germany based Octopus Design.

Visit the Octopus Design website – here.

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Marc Sadler has designed the Tress Lamp for Italian lighting manufacturer Foscarini.

Interwoven threads drowned in resin that recalls the texture of baskets. The effect is an interplay of full and empty spaces, interwoven light and material, distributed differently according to the use of the lamp, which evokes the warm touch of fabric, creating an extremely suggestive visual and tactile effect.

Visit the Foscarini website – here.   Visit Marc Sadler’s website – here.

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Fox Johnston Architects designed this house in the Mosman neighborhood of Sydney, Australia.

With a view over national parkland and across the ocean to the horizon, this house is designed for easy living and to please the senses. Yet it is also practical – built with solid, durable, tactile materials. Bluestone, Anthra-Zinc, glass and wood are combined externally and internally in an environmentally responsive manner.

Visit the website of Fox Johnston Architects – here.

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Architect Jean Pelle produces these individually handcrafted wood candle holders in her studio in Brooklyn, New York. Every holder is unique, and has been treated with a non-toxic flame retardant.

Visit Jean Pelle’s website – here.   Visit her online store – here.

Billie – Turned wood with a highly polished ebonized finish:

Tod – Turned wood with a segment of its grain leafed in pure 24-karat gold:

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This upcoming April 2009, during Milan’s most important design week, Aqua Creations led by designer- artist Ayala Serfaty takes on the challenge of redressing the city’s trendy Nhow Hotel and momentarily transforming it into an Aqua Creations Hotel.

Ideally located in the hub of the International Press Center in the heart of Zona Tortona, the exhibition will unveil Aqua Creations’ bold new one-off pieces. The new range of inspired designs showcased will include a combination of lighting and furniture designs made of naturally soft and pliable materials such as hand-made felt, clay, and angora.

Visit the Aqua Creations website – here.    Visit Ayala Serfaty’s website – here.

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Turkish design studio Autoban, designed the interiors of the Witt Istanbul Suites Hotel.

From Autoban:

Each room was designed as one space where you can eat, rest and sleep. Patterns made from laser cut wood or iron create layers, and combine with existing Autoban furniture. The bathroom walls are made of traditional Marmara marble which is the main material in the Ottoman architectural style. The whole ambiance provides a unique experience where the visitors can broaden their horizons and breathe Istanbul.

Visit the Autoban website – here.

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British glassmakers Louise and Colin Hawkins have their own studio (LoCo Glass) in the heart of Cirencester, England, where they produce their handmade glass creations. Each piece is hand blown and made in their characteristic style, using a variety of both traditional and modern techniques.

“We aim to make work that is forward thinking, exciting glass for the modern interior with an emphasis on creative design and skilled craftsmanship,” say the Hawkins.

Seen below are some of their glass bottle designs.

Visit Louise and Colin Hawkins’ website – here.

FLUTE – a delicate and elegant range of clear tapered bottles with coloured, blown stoppers. These flow from the neck and finish with a cut and polished rim.

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Adrian Rayment, along with his father Ron, produce handcrafted metal wirework furniture at their studio in the seaside town of Ramsgate, England. Seen here is the Hero Chair and matching stool.

Adrian says:

The Hero’s ergonomic form has lived in my minds eye for a number of years, conceived on cold beer and late summer surf. I’ve always felt compelled to utilize the form of endless rolling curves and uninterrupted simplistic smooth lines.

Visit the website of RaymentWire – here.

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Italian designer Antonino Sciortino has created the PioPio collection for Diamantini & Domeniconi.

A collection of book shelves and coffee tables/bed tables born thanks to the expert use of the iron by Antonino Sciortino whose ability in molding, since a long time, creates pieces of furniture as beautiful as sculptures and functional as furniture objects. The Piopio collection is based on the idea of the movement, the movement of the shapes of the single object, but also the movement that is born from the possibility to create unsuspected geometries matching many pieces in creative way.

Visit Antonino Sciortino’s website – here. Visit the Diamantini & Domeniconi website – here.

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Brazilian designers Marcelo Damm, Rafael Roldão, Renato Mosci of deQuinta Design, with the help of Giuliano Mello, have created the Morro Sofa.

From deQuinta:

It all started with a mess. And it was beautiful. Living in Rio, a city surrounded by a bit of chaos here and there, favelas, and thinking that besides all that it works, we figured out that this mess was also functional. And how to incorporate it into a project, how to build upon it? Perhaps even more important, how to make it socially and ecologically relevant and also inspire some criticism? Bring the discussion to your home?

So here is Morro.

Morro is a slang for favela in Rio, something like a hill covered with houses built with whatever means they have. And  this had to be translated to the project. Built out of foam waste from other traditional sofas, using cloth shreds as lining (with the help of a favela seamstress and craftwork co-operative) different colored and sized cubes are attached to a very simple recycled wood structure with the use of velcro.

Visit the deQuinta website – here.

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Tel-Aviv, Israel based architect Pitsou Kedem’s Herzelia Pituah House 3, has won fourth place in the buildings category in the Project of the Year Competition organized by Architecture of Israel Quarterly.

A monochromatic architectural line is granted by a 3D encounter between horizontal spaces and vertical walls, while architectural richness is achieved through non-material components – light, transparency, and reflection. Within this, the openings regulate the light and shades, accentuating the difference between the various masses, each made of a different material – bare concrete, wood, glass and metal.

Visit the website of Pitsou Kedem Architects – here.

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Italian lighting manufacturer Kundalini have released some preview images of their new
Homology Floor Lamp that has been designed by Giorgio Gurioli.

The lamp will be on display at the 2009 Euroluce Lighting Exhibition in Milan, Italy.

Visit the Kundalini website – here.  Visit Giorgio Gurioli’s website – here.

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Italian architect Edoardo Petri designed the Natural Collection of bathroom furniture for Italian manufacturer FRANCOCECCOTTI.

From the manufacturer:

For its first collection, FRANCOCECCOTTI decided to appoint an Italian designer to supervise the entire creative process in close cooperation with the company. This is architect and designer Edoardo Petri, committed since his academic studies to researching a balance between space, shape and function, at the same time drawing the proper attention on the aesthetic value of the project. Such a balance cannot create, when well achieved, anything but a result with interesting features of harmony and grace, never pompous and absolutely rigorous. So, it is Edoardo Petri that has the honour of supervising the first collection FRANCOCECCOTTI, born from the ambitious idea of reinterpreting the bathroom furniture in its materials and shapes. The Italian designer – building on his own experience as an architect – gives the new range a dynamic matrix, where functionality, charm and quality met harmoniously. Everything is done according to the culture of “beauty”, intrinsic to Italian-made products.

Visit the FRANCOCECCOTTI website – here.

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This mid-century-modern home in the hills of West Hollywood, California, was recently remodeled by Janna Levenstein. The 4 bedroom house is set on over a half-acre above the Sunset Strip.

The house is currently for sale through Jan Horn, more info – here.

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