
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...






ah, sorry, not a fan. looks too 'naughty'.
view *heather leaf*'s profile
If you hadn't said it was a "tennis skirt" I wouldn't have recognized it as such. A cool design. I like it.
view jimkk's profile
that is soooooo dirty!
view guido's profile
No doubt this bit of whimsy is on sale for hundreds of dollars. And how quickly one will get tired of the joke.
view Deborah's profile
I just bought a great big drum shade and this reminds me...I need to find a pendant kit.
view I Love Upstate's profile
At least there is no "pull cord".
view patrick (the other one)'s profile
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...
view One Eyed Daruma's profile
Whole new meaning to "light days." (Sorry!)
view patrick (the other one)'s profile
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.
view blkbrrry's profile
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)
view blkbrrry's profile
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.
view recon1's profile
I'd know that tennis skirt anywhere and I love it. Reminds me of saving up all my allowance for alligators on my shirts.
view becky's profile
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.
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