Transparent House's Tape Cassette Lamp

As Gregory pointed out yesterday, next month we'll be "thinking green" across all our sites. Thinking green for us has always including repurposing objects and we are always intrigued by ordinary objects rethought in extraordinary ways. Remember those old cassette mix tapes from high school? So does Transparent House...

"These sleek table lamps are made of transparent and coloured tapes. The small lamp is made from answering machine tapes while the larger model is made of compact cassette tapes in different shades. The lamps use non-heated neon lights. All cassettes are in their cases."

Ah, cases. That rules out a DIY for us! For more information on this project, click here.

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Love it and the pattern it throws on the wall!

posted by lightspeed on June 19th 2008 at 11:27am
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Thank you so much! Exactly what I have been trying to conceive with my many boxes of cassettes. Now I am full of ideas and I love how these transparent ones reflect their patterns on the wall; didn't think of that. Awesome.

Now how to transfer the data before gluing up the tapes?

posted by olga on June 19th 2008 at 11:34am
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this is just the coolest thing! i would totally buy it.

posted by houseno8 on June 19th 2008 at 11:41am
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Wow I love that! Very inspiring and gives me something to create in the future!

posted by seevansolomon on June 19th 2008 at 12:40pm
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I have a bunch of old CDs that I no longer use that I'm trying to find a use for. Still no closer to a doable idea, but this one at least gives me a starting point for some inspiration. I would really buy these. And since I think I still have a box of tapes in storage, I may have to try this myself.

posted by Jennae @ Green Your Decor on June 19th 2008 at 1:23pm
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Fabulous! And I love that they're all wound exactly the same amount.

posted by catspajamas on June 19th 2008 at 5:00pm
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http://www.make-stuff.com/recycling/cd.html

Stuff to make with CDs ...

posted by catspajamas on June 19th 2008 at 5:02pm
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this will be added definitely on my 'to do' lists. the pattern of the shadows which the cassette tape makes it even cooler and eyecatching.

posted by teodz on June 26th 2008 at 3:20am
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i made one very similar.. look here:
http://kucebe.blogspot.com/2009/01/tape-lamp.html

posted by kucebe on January 26th 2009 at 8:25am
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