Trendy Eco-Lighting for the Lighthearted
Matchless in design, these chandeliers are also environmentally friendly. Made from found, recycled and salvaged materials, they add to the décor without taking a toll on their surroundings.
The Nebu (short for nebulous) was designed by Francois Chambard for UMproject, Inc. The lighting is based on a sheet of powder-coated black aluminum with 250 spiral-cut designs. Multi-colored vintage and antique wine glasses are inserted into the spirals for a dizzying effect. Looking up into the chandelier, the image is one of floating glass.
Relax with a cup of coffee at your dining room table. And if you weren’t born with a silver spoon in your mouth, grab a plastic coffee stirrer from the millions that hang from this eco-luxe chandelier by Portuguese design firm Studio Verissimo. Appropriately titled “Spoon,” the lighting received rave reviews for ingenuity at the Touch NY exhibition during New York Design Week.
The Umbrella chandelier, created from a singular umbrella or an arrangement of several, speaks for itself.
Daisuke Hiraiwa glued hundreds of toothpicks together to form a flexible disc and give the sharp points a fluid form. Hiraiwa’s Stamen chandeliers debuted this year at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City.
It’s that time of the month! An O.B. Tampons marketing strategy received more than a second look. At first glance, the size was the attention-grabber. From the ceiling to right above the floor, the dimensions were not nearly as unusual as the composition. Made from hundreds of white O.B. tampons, exhibitors hoped there were no mishaps with the building’s sprinkler system.
Walking Things in Vienna, Austria, came up with a recycling solution for PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic beverage bottles. Designed by Karl Pircher, Fidel Peugeot and Sylvia Sauermann, the kit consists of a laser-cut transparent acrylic holder for nine bottles, a lamp-holder with bulb fitting, cable, and a canopy. You design your own eco-light.
If you’ve been wondering what to do with your doll collection, pull it out of storage and get busy with this DIY chandelier. And, as for a place to put it… it may be endearing in a little girl’s room if your daughter or granddaughter isn’t freaked out by waking up to dolls hanging over her bed. These borderline tacky eco-decos have been spotted in Utah, Portland and New York.
Philadelphia-based artist Warren Muller used found materials to create this lamp. But it’s certainly not his most unusual…
Yes, that’s a mini station wagon on the ceiling. Given to Muller by a man who ran a car repair shop, this eye-catching chandelier would run you a whopping $200,000. On average, one of Muller’s small table lamps sell for $850 and a custom chandelier can cost anywhere from $9,500 to $18,000. Wink: Warren Muller, recently published, includes 180 images, some of which highlight the artist’s fantastical artwork.
This gorgeous piece is created from French oak wine barrels. Belgian Furniture designer Mark Sage uses strips of wood from barrel drums and the metal hoops used to hold them together in his lighting designs. Restoration Hardware lists Sage’s six-candle version of the chandelier for a mere $2,495.
British- based lighting designer Ali Siahvoshi, exhibited work at 100% Design. Siahvoshi is the designer behind Fabbian’s line of silverware chandeliers, giving cutlery a new lease on life.
Known for his use of everyday items, Japanese designer Daisuke Hiraiwa created a line of chandeliers from recycled plastic spoons. Hundreds of tiny holes punctured by a soldering iron allow the light to filter through clear spoons to create atmosphere. The artwork was exhibited at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City. Hiraiwa said, “The shoal of fish is always moving, and I like the instability and I think with this sculpture, I can capture that.”
Unlike artist & naturalist Andy Goldsworthy, who forms his creations from shells, pebbles and the like, Stuart Haygarth uses the very unnatural material that washes up on beaches. His Tide chandelier is made from sunglasses, shovel handles, bottle caps and other manmade debris, all found on a stretch of Kent coastline. The sphere is an analogy for the moon, which affects the tides, which in turn wash up the debris. By many, Haygarth is considered as much an environmentalist as Goldsworthy.
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