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Wow, I can't believe this is PB. It's gorgeous!

I love this, and I'm with Timmy - I was shocked to see it in the PB catalog. They're definitely mixing things up these days. Sometimes with not so exciting results, admittedly - but this is fantastic.

How hard would this be to DIY? i feel like you could do it for much less money, but electrical stuff kinda makes me nervous.

Would be curious to know how all those cord holders attach to the ceiling. Could be a real mess if you were to move it later.

Yeah really- 10 hilders with 2 screws each, thats 20 screw holes that would have to be patched if you replace it.

Still, it is pretty cool looking and I imagine it would also work well on angled ceilings.

Love

Sloppy looking.

I bet you could make or acquire some kind of "medallion" however, that would just be a surface you could attach the brackets to, and still attached to the ceiling with the one center hole like a normal chandelier. It could be embellished or simple, as long as it was light in material, flush, parked in a beam, it wouldn't be too heavy.

I wouldn't recommend trying to make this yourself unless you know what you're doing. Rewiring a one-wire lamp isn't too difficult, but splitting up the voltage is quickly advanced. You wouldn't want to be pouring too much electricity through the one pipe, as it were. I don't want to be too alarming, scared of my own shadow, etc., but yeah, electricity is something for professionals, at least they can teach you how to, and to be safe about it.

How do you reconcile this fixture with the push towards energy efficient CFL's?

totally cool.

I'm with Dave.darling - Seems like the wrong product at the wrong time.

Very cool.

wow- color me impressed! way to go, PB!

yeah, real GREEN?

Love it, butagree with the comments about CFLs. This just wouldn't look the same with fluorescent bulds hanging from it! What about the longevity of it too, what with the push to eliminate incandescents all together? What would you do with it then?

Love it.

And re CFLs: we use them, but the awful quality of light they cast drives me nuts. Is that just the nature of CFLs, or does anyone think/know if this is something that can be improved?

so cool

CFLs probably won't even fit. I bought a light from PB for my kitchen (practically the most used light in the house) and the sockets are set very deep into the fixture, so the fat part of the bulb prevents it from screwing in!! Bummer!

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I wouldn't try to make any DIY light fixtures because they aren't UL'd. You don't want to burn down your house...


I work for a lighting manufacturer and while we get really cool looking samples - I wouldn't put them in my house as they aren't always wired up correctly. Sometimes we hear booms coming from our warehouse :)

UL'd?

UL: Underwriters Laboratories - http://www.ul.com/

The simple version is that they give products (esp. electrical/electronic) safety approval.

To make this green, just keep it turned off for 364 days of the year.

(Or is it one of those insidious things that keep siphoning energy even when off?)

YES.

Love it, for once a major furniture catalogue finds a way to keep with current trends without blatantly ripping of classics.

As for the eco-freaks, as a dining room light, it will likely only be on a coupe hours a day or week. Besides with CFLs selling like mad, it won't be long until manufacturers design CFLs that are actually good looking. Either that or LED bulbs continue to fall in price and supplant the CFL.

I think its great looking but also immediately saw the ecological/cost downside. Would it be horrendous or dangerous to fashion a circular paper covering so that you could put CFLs inside? Or is one of the main appeals of this lamp the fact that you can see through the hanging round shapes (bulbs)?

Love it! Looks fantabulous!