Lula Dot, the design studio of British designer Lucy Norman, which “aims to upcycle London’s waste into lasting beauty,” has created the Light Reading chandelier.

From the designer:

More books are printed every year, read and discarded. Even though many are taken to charity shops, they mostly go unsold and the charities have to pay for the books to be sent to landfill. For example 10,000 books a week from one charity will go to waste. There is currently no infrastructure set up to recycle the paper from books because the paper is low grade and the glue on the spine must be removed. These wasted books are used to create a beautiful chandelier. Every page is folded in half, producing a circular arrangement which hangs around a ceiling light.

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Canadian designer Omer Arbel has created the 28 series of pendant lamps for BOCCI.

28 is a result of a glass blowing technique developed by Omer Arbel whereby air is intermittently blown in and then sucked out of an intermittently heated and then cooled glass matrix. The result is a distorted spherical shape with a composed collection of inner shapes, one of which houses a low voltage lamp.

28 pendants are designed to cluster in hexagonal shapes which nestle into each other to create patterns as dictated by the needs of the interior.

Standard 28 pendants are made in clear, white and frosted glass (with several other standard colour schemes contemplated in future months). However, 28 is a design which lends itself to infinite compositions and gradations of colour. Bocci’s glass atelier in Vancouver thrives on bespoke work and is able to work with our clients with great versatility on custom colour compositions to match the vistion and needs of a project or interior.

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British designer Tim Fishlock has created Gulp.

Tim says:

Gulp is three thousand translucent drinking straws interwoven to form a dense, spherical lampshade. Made from one continuous length of interconnected straws, you could – if you possessed Dyson-like suction – put one end in a drink and gulp it down through the other. Each piece takes seven days to make and is made to order.

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Spanish lighting company Lzf have created a video showing the process of design and creation of their wood veneer lighting.

Watch the video on Vimeo – here.

At the Ambiente 2010 show in Frankfurt, German designer Martin Schmid (part of the COCAGE design group) exhibited his Papo lamps, which are made of paper.

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Tom Stepp has designed the Groggy floor lamp for Norwegian manufacturer Northern Lighting.

The name Groggy relates to the slightly oblique shape of this object, with a base that almost falls over sideways, yet the lamp remains in an upright position.

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Toronto based architect Dieter Janssen has created the ‘Heavy/Light’ light fixture.

Made of cast-iron with xenon lighting components, Heavy/Light began as an investigation into modelling cloud formations, initially for the purpose of developing a possible roof structure on a private residence. As a hanging light however, the sequence of vaulted arches, each pinching or flattening, reflect a varied light onto the space below defining a carved field of illumination.

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Tsunami Glassworks, a Canadian glass blowing studio, has created the Hypervoxel Chandelier.

Hypervoxel is a free blown glass sculptural chandelier available in custom colors and sizes. The organic forms mimic weightless liquid floating in space. Versatile in configuration the Hypervoxel shows well in small or large groupings.

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Designers Jörg Boner and Christian Deuber have created the Nan18 floor lamp for the Switzerland based manufacturer Nanoo.

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Irish designer Davin Larkin of Kooyong Design, has launched the Pinch and Splay floor lamps.
Davin assembles all the lamps by hand in his studio in Rua Red, South Dublin’s newest arts centre.

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Jonah Takagi has designed the Spun Table Lamp.

The lamp features a spun aluminum shade, lacquered steel base, and cloth cord.

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Italian designers Donato D’Urbino and Paolo Lomazzi have created the Ghost lamp for Bonaldo.

From Bonaldo:

The Ghost lamp has a white polyethylene stem which forms a single whole with the base, and a white polycarbonate diffuser. Thanks to the light source inside the stem and the diffuser, Ghost illuminates the surrounding environment and delicately spreads the light upwards. Its soft lines make Ghost a discrete presence that harmonises easily with any type of style.

Bonaldo will exhibit the Ghost lamp at the upcoming Now! Design à Vivre show in Paris.

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Danish designer Tom Rossau has sent us some photos of him making one of his ST 903 lamps.
Tom works mainly with natural wood veneers to create his contemporary sculptural lamps.
All of his pieces are handbuilt in Denmark.

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London based designer Tim Fishlock has created the What Watt? chandelier.

Tim says:

What Watt? is a memorial to and a celebration of the humble incandescent lightbulb. It’s a spherical chandelier, 1010mm in diameter made up of 1243 suspended bulbs of various shape and size, illuminated by a single low-energy light source. By 2011, all forms of incandescent light bulb will have been phased out in favour of greener alternatives. What Watt? marks the passing of a beautiful design that has remained relatively unchanged since its invention 130 years ago.

Designed and fabricated for a private commission. I will be producing an edition of ten.

You can watch a time-lapse video of the construction – here.

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Nora Lederer and Jia Zhao, the founders of nojiberlin, are a German/Asian design team that recently formed while studying together at the University of the Arts in Berlin.

The duo have created some new seating and lighting pieces that they will be exhibiting at the upcoming 2010 IMM Cologne furniture show.

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