Anthropologie does it again! This is the current display above the registers of the Santana Row store. If only we had soaring ceilings and a few hundred more square feet in our house, we would consider a similar installation! But wait ... Last week's design*sponge DIY project showcased a version of this look on a smaller scale.
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If you're as enamored by the mason jar lighting as we are, you can try this at home. You just need the jars, a hanging lamp kit and a ceiling light plate. All easy to come by. Check out the instructions at d*s.
And here's a close-up of the Anthropologie display, so you can see for yourself how similar the two projects are:
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Comments (18)
Oh hell yes. I'm doing that tonight.
Or next week. Or maybe never.
But I'll always wish I had.
Alina: LOL!! I say that about 1000 times every day, looking at all these design sites.
Ditto on alina's comment
from now on this will be my response when my husband complains about me keeping every mason jar that enters the house.
Love it! they always have the best displays.
Looks like only 12 or so of the mason jars in the Anthropologie display are actually lit, and the rest are just keeping them company. This wouldn't cost too much at all to put together.
I saw this there the other day and loved it as well. I really liked the water bottle display they had last summer where they had the water bottles hanging from the ceiling with different levels of water in them. In the sun the water condensation looked gorgeous. I love Anthropologie.
non-pendant solar version:
http://www.momastore.org/museum/moma/ProductDisplay_SunJar_10451_10001_36407_-1_11548_13152_null__
How do you handle the heat buildup inside the jar? Guess low wattage CFLs would help some.
I saw something similar in a martha stewart magazine a few years ago... the mason jars were hung outdoors from the branches of a big tree and candles were buring in each one. Underneath was a table set up with a really nice spread of food. Perfect dusk dinner al fresco. I swore i'd do that one day!
Cancel everything. I am DIY'ing this tonight :)
-Eleazar
http://www.blogazar.com
idea chick, instructions for similar project, right here, now is the time:
http://food.yahoo.com/articles/martha-stewart/channel4080137/candle-chandeliers
Best prices on crystals, here:
http://www.spectrumhome3.com/StaticPages/crystalps.htm
Use the Swarovski for brilliant sparkle, or ones marked as Austrian.
The others are pressed or molded glass. But since the jar is glass, obviously, not cut leaded crystal, I think that the long tears drops would be really cool.
Its a recycled idea. Anthro had an almost exact version of this display as one of the window display options exactly two years ago.
wow...very cool. The last time I went to Anthropologie, they had paper cockroaches on all the window. Don't think I want to copy that idea...
Yes, it's a recycled idea -- but if we're going to give credit for the concept, it should go to Tejo Remi from the highly-influential Droog design team who did this a decade and a half before Anthro or anyone else. The Droog Milk Bottle Chandelier Lamp came out in the early 1990's -- they were among the first industrial designers to seriously explore the concept of re-purposing.
i think it's a fabulous idea, agree with many of you that it is a recycled idea. however I feel that anthropologie manages to take a recyled idea and make it look phenomenal and new. also - thanks true blue for the link on how to do similar.
Actually, the credit should go to my uncle Ted, who locked himself in his basement for three days in 1989, with only a bare lightbulb and a jar of pickles. He ate the pickles and made a lamp out of the jar, which Tejo read about in the news.
(kidding lightspeed :)
Great idea, and thanks for the how to link.
Wow, what a fun idea.. love it!