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Inspiration: Dining Room Light Fixture

While dining in Venice Beach this past weekend, we noticed this amazing chandelier adorned with a variety of different bulbs. It left us feeling giddy with desire to have it hanging in our own home. ...

Ready-Made Lighting
From Das rote Paket

Das rote Paket, based in Leipzig, Germany, introduces unique designs from young architects and designers. Earlier this year they held a lighting design competition using ready-made objects and a smal...

Parasolita Lamp: High Style, Moderate Price

The pendant lamp is the little black dress of the lighting world. It works anywhere and there's a style to flatter most shapes and sizes. But once you start looking for the right one, you can find...

7Gods Lighting Design

7Gods is a creative design agency based in London. We have seen their interior design and branding work before, but we especially admire their innovative lighting solutions....

How To: Make Hemp Pendant Lamps

We've made a few of these string pendant lamps over the last few months, but we've had a few technical difficulties with the process. They were a bit messier and more fragile than we had expected an...

Exploded Chandelier by Ward van Gemert

If you ever thought that most chandeliers are too feminine, you might find this one more interesting. Ward Van Gemert is a a Dutch product designer who uses parts from deconstructed chandeliers and cr...

How To: Make Candle Sconces from Silver Plates
Point Click Home

Could these candle sconces be any more romantic? Point Click Home editor Anne E. Collins posted them this weekend, and we couldn’t resist passing along the project just in time for Valentine’s Day...

Lighting Installation: 10-Meter-Forest from Catherine Kullberg

This beautiful lighting installation is part of the Emil & Samuel restaurant/night club decor in Oslo. The 100m2 of wood veneer was designed by Catherine Kullberg, Norway - based designer. The light a...

McEwen Lighting Studio

Using the lines, shapes, and materials of industrial objects as his inspiration, local designer Michael McEwen, based in Emeryville, produces some seriously stunning fixtures. We’d love to bask in t...

Roundup: DIY Lighting Ideas

Lighting could be the one essential key to making your spaces great. Even a poorly designed or decorated room can be made to look fabulous with the right lighting and likewise, an amazing room can f...

Garbage Lamps: From Trash To Treasure

We came across these kitchen tools and appliances turned into lighting elements from a company called Garbage. We love the detail that is in each piece and the old patina on each found item that has...

Look! Ornament Lighting at The Observatory

So the little wire hooks fell off of all your Christmas ornaments and you're wondering how to make them useful again. Here's a thought -- create some colorful and contemporary lighting. Spotted in the...

Scavenger: SF Chandeliers That Need A Home

Craigslist doesn't have to just be for chairs and tables, it can be a great resource for lighting as well. We rounded up a few fun finds that would make great additions to the right spaces. Some mi...

Two-Dimensional Lamps

These days it appears it could be our blinds that are keeping our lights on. Designers Yoon-Hui Kim and Eun-Kyung Kim have made a "Solar Vertical Lamp" that takes your regular vertical blind and emb...

SOLO Pendant Light from Re-Surface

Maybe this one speaks to the karaoke microphone hog in us, but we really love the SOLO Pendant Light from Re-Surface. The hanging microphone lamp was one of the standouts that caught our eye at the re...

Recycling Compact Fluorescent Bulbs

One of the major negatives associated with switching to Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFLs) from standard bulbs is the hazards associated with disposing of them when through. Because they contain trace ...

Funghi Lamps by Metalarte

We're going to file this under "on the fence" for the time being, because, though we love the shape, we don't really get why it's made of porcelain. To us, lamps have always made more sense when the l...

Inspiration: Kanye's Glow in the Dark Tour

We recently saw Kanye West's Glow in the Dark Tour in Montreal, and we'll start by saying it was fantastic. It's basically a one-man performance piece, but if that conjures up images of a dude on a bl...

Coconut Chandelier from Wisteria

Not cheap, but interesting. The texture on this negative-space take on a traditional-style chandelier comes from thousands of coconut shells, dyed and woven around a wire structure....