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Christiane Hoegner's Tennis Skirt Lamps

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Love It! Designer Christiane Hoegner's site highlights some amazingly intuitive work including the Anna K. series of pendant lights. Made from vintage tennis skirts, the shades shape reference traditional pleated lampshades while offering up a new twist on creative reuse. This is another great idea for a DIY like yesterday's Biblioteca Book Shelves...

 
 
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ah, sorry, not a fan. looks too 'naughty'.

posted by *heather leaf* on September 6th 2007 at 5:15am
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If you hadn't said it was a "tennis skirt" I wouldn't have recognized it as such. A cool design. I like it.

posted by jimkk on September 6th 2007 at 5:18am
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that is soooooo dirty!

posted by guido on September 6th 2007 at 5:18am
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No doubt this bit of whimsy is on sale for hundreds of dollars. And how quickly one will get tired of the joke.

posted by Deborah on September 6th 2007 at 5:22am
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I just bought a great big drum shade and this reminds me...I need to find a pendant kit.

posted by I Love Upstate on September 6th 2007 at 5:49am
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At least there is no "pull cord".

posted by patrick (the other one) on September 6th 2007 at 5:52am
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Heh. Ptoo...just to be obtuse, I'd install one to see who noticed! Or perhaps just tuck part of the hem into the waistband inthe back...

posted by One Eyed Daruma on September 6th 2007 at 6:53am
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Whole new meaning to "light days." (Sorry!)

posted by patrick (the other one) on September 6th 2007 at 7:09am
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patrik, i am loving your comments. this designer is f'n brilliant. along the lines of tobias wong. i love clever people like this. did you go to his site? even the site itself is done well.

posted by blkbrrry on September 6th 2007 at 8:03am
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oops, sorry patrick, i mispelled your name. (i know a patrick w/out the c, and i'm so use to spelling it that way)

posted by blkbrrry on September 6th 2007 at 8:04am
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This is not good design. It is not cute or clever or brilliant either. Very sad. This is as bad as the post I saw in LA I think last night with the pottery barn giant scissors.

posted by recon1 on September 6th 2007 at 10:17am
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I'd know that tennis skirt anywhere and I love it. Reminds me of saving up all my allowance for alligators on my shirts.

posted by becky on September 6th 2007 at 11:08am
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Back to the fray. I still think the milk bottle pendants and lightbulbs in glass bricks are brilliant, but this sort of thing -- like the skirt lamp -- is a visual joke for a few minutes or even a few months, and then what? That's fine except that it's usually a very expensive joke.

posted by Deborah on September 6th 2007 at 1:27pm
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