We love the designer CFL bulbs from Hulga — we first reported on them back in 2007, when the sculptural bulbs were just a concept — and now, they've introduced a new member to their family. Meet Baby Plumen 001.
The Baby Plumen 001 offers the same energy-saving benefits of the Original Plumen 001, but comes in a more compact form to fit fixtures designed for incandescent bulbs.
The 9-watt Baby bulb is meant to replace a 40-watt incandescent and will last around 8,000 hours. A 220-volt version is now available through Plumen's website, with a 120-volt version to come later this year for the North American market.
With a CFL this stylish, it might be hard to hide it under a shade! (The translucent pendant above is a chic way to showcase it.)
Find It: Baby Plumen 001, £18.95 at Plumen UK
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Very cool looking, but $30 each? Ouch!
I use my plumens more as sculptural pieces, almost like lamps themselves. They're too pricey to not emphasize.
Moved on to LED bulbs sorry. CFLs have mercury still.
By the way, the glass light featured above is the Terra Modern Pendant Light by Niche Modern.
@bruintoo ~
FYI, as someone who designs lighting for a living, all bulbs have their pros and cons, LEDs are no magic bullet, and incandescent shouldn't be made out to be the villains that they have been. I love LEDs, but they have a lot of problems: heat, generally bad color temperature (yes, even the warm 2700K bulbs are pukishly green) and LEDs are unidirectional, so getting them to illuminate like a bulb requires a lot of them in a tight package that outputs a lot of heat. See all the aluminum heat dissipation fins on those bulbs? The LEDs last 100,000+ hours, but I've got a warchest of dead LED lights because the drivers don't last that long and fail prematurely. Any bulb is only as good as its weakest component.
Legislators and activists mean well, but aren't educated about using the RIGHT light for the job, and tend to make sweeping changes that are ignorant of the pros and cons and aren't right for all the people all the time.
Best bet, stick with candles and get fire insurance. Beautiful lighting and lots of romance.
2nd best choice is to use a combination of light sources, including some sexy Niche Modern Pendants with the bulb of your choice.
excellent, ive been meaning to change my kitchen pendant lights and was going to go with either a style like the first picture or just bare plumens, now i get both :D
Hotel/motel owners, who need LED bulbs desperately, cannot currently use them because most have the same shape as incandescents. Meth users steal incandescent and similarly shaped bulbs, then use a torch to convert them to meth pipes. No, I am not making this up.
Plumen has the design we want. Now, nice guys, please give us this design at a price point we can afford in the quantities we must purchase.