Stepping into Erica Tanov's shop in NoLita this past weekend we loved all of the rich, deeply colored and Paris inspired clothing and housewares that she was selling, but we were particularly taken with her lighting. It was dead simple and lovely.
Look! : Simple Beautiful Ceiling Lighting
All she had done was hung sockets on long wire with Crown Bulbs in them. The secret was in the mixed size bulbs, the attractive ceramic sockets and the long wire that takes on a completely luxurious aspect at that length. Put these on a dimmer and you're really in business.
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i LOVE the look of bare bulbs. this looks FANTASTIC. i'm gonna figure out how to do something similar over my dining table. my search the last 5 months for a light fixture has lead me nowhere.
That rocks, and looks like my fav album cover of all time, Duncan Sheik's Phantom Moon.
It IS lovely but has one flaw I've been wrestling with in a design problem. The bulbs are incandescent ie waste a lot of energy. I've been trying to design a minimal fixture for a home that would utilize bare bulbs but have you seen the compact Flourescents! Great light choices, great price/durability but for the most part aesthetically weak. The good old fashioned incandescent bulb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb
has a wonderfully retro/machine age/functional look due in large part to when it was first widely used. I would love to see some manufacturer of compact flourescents design bulbs that are designed to sing the praises of compact flourescent technology rather than looking liked they were designed to be about the same shape as the incandescent bulbs they replace. Some of them are getting close with the languidly intertwining tubes of glass. Some manufacturer just needs to take the next little step and then ... too baked ...
Dead simple is right. That looks amazing but is illegal and a total fire hazard hanging lights over pipes like that. Better not let the fire dept. see that.
this is a great idea, it would look great on a smaller scale hanging off a pipe over a dining table.
in a small apartment this might be too much if it was only lighting in the room.
"simple and lovely"???
With all those loops and straggly bits of wire?? - it looks a complete mess in my opinion
where does one buy a crown bulb?
I saw some compact flourescents cleverly disguised as regular bulbs at target the other day. You could get the best of both worlds there, though I doubt they have crown bulbs.
curious, i found them at the Home Depot on 23rd street, though they were understocked and only had the 40 watt bulbs in the big bathroom globe size. which was fine as it was the size i wanted. not sure if they're usually that hard to find at the despot, or if it was a fluke.
you should definitely be able to find multiple sizes and wattages at Just Bulbs, which is on 16th Street between Union Square and 5th. if you live in NYC.
s: The lights don't touch that pipe. They run parallel to it, about 6 inches from it is my guess.
I can only find UK retailers who sell crown bulbs. this one looks pretty good: http://www.lightbulbs-direct.com/default.asp
Does anyone know what to do to avoid blowing the fuse?
Where did she get the wiring from? Are they all on the same wire, or different ones? I may be moving to an apartment with a very long, dark hallway, and this would be a dramatic way to light it, but I'd rather not mess around with a bunch of different wires.
lovely! my only question is whether this is permitted by the fire/building code(s). i'm not sure if there are restrictions about types of exposed wiring like this, or if it only pertains to cords that are not hard wired. anybody have the answer to that?
This method of hanging lights is no different than hanging a pendant and is totally legal.