Winnie Lui's White Chandelier for Innermost is a trash-to-treasure exercise from the jewelry turned lighting designer, who has made 50 limited edition pieces in white and black. It's just one in a long tradition of light fixtures made from cast-offs that take on relevance as the world becomes increasingly overloaded with junk and designers transform it into raw material...
London designer Stuart Haygarth's series of "Tide" chandeliers are made from debris washed-up on a stretch of coast in Kent that he's been collecting for a decade.
German designer Ingo Maurer's Porca Miseria chandelier from 1994 is made from broken china.
Arik Levy designed the Fractal Cloud hanging light in 2005, for an exhibition at the Pompidou Center, using neon tubes strung up with their wires exposed, and seen here at the Caroline Nobile stand at last year's Maison & Objet.
And I can't seem to find out who made this egg carton chandelier held together with paperclips -- if anyone does, please let me know!
Related: Clothespin Chandelier
- Kristin Hohenadel blogging from Paris. She can be reached at kristin @ apartmenttherapy . com
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don't know if it's just me, but i wouldn't want any of these hanging anywhere in my house. They just look like junk and trash hanging from your ceiling.
I would laugh at anyone who has it hung in their house and tries to describe it as artistic.
please stop sticking found objects on suspended bulbs.
I like the broken china one and the 'tide' one... but they sure would be a pain to dust.
I'm not loving the last 2, but I think the first 2 are great. The first certainly needs the right space to showcase it- maybe a restaurant or lobby in a quasi-corporate artistic office space... I think we should be glad to know that pieces like that exist, even if they do not seem appropriate for our home foyers.
The images at top immediately recalled the junk lady in Labyrinth.
Mmmmm... Daavvviiddd Bowwwwiiiieeeeeeee....
I'm really surprised by the negative feedback here. I think they're amazing.
I saw one of these in person last year and they really are amazing (Winnie Lui's). As for the egg carton...not so much.
i love them (except for the coffee tray) and i would totally hang them in my house... well after i get a good insurance policy.
I like some - the Ingo Maurer one particularly - others I don't like, but I'm no longer EVER surprised by the negative feedback in the AT comments section.
KTG,
Thank you for pointing out those are coffee holders. I guess I have forgotten what they look like living in France where take-out coffee has yet to catch on (and my egg cartons from the farmers market are made from the same material!).