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Tiger Wood's Home

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Spiralight

MoCo Loco highlights Robin Carpenter’s Spiralight.

Link: MoCo Loco: Spiralight

A twisting strand of 216 LEDs suspended by a thin wire, that is Robin Carpenter’s Spiralight. That, and 1st prize winner at Lights of the Future 2006 awarded by the German Design Council. Says Robin, “Often chandeliers appear like clusters of lights similar to galaxies but rather than concentrating many lights in an object I wanted to direct the perception of the object with light. With Spiralight your eyes are bound to roll with the small light-spots created by the many leds. It's the effect of follow-me as if one was looking for something specific - like tracing a shooting star.". Made for residential use, it can be used in living rooms or entrances.

+ robincarpenter.com

Futuristic Apartment Tower Lit By Motion-Sensing LEDs

Treehugger displays some impressive photos of the new Turning Torso tower.

Link: Treehugger: Futuristic Apartment Tower Lit By Motion-Sensing LEDs

The new “Turning Torso” residential tower in Malmö, Sweden, is not only an architectural feat but a state-of-the-art example use of LEDs for residential lighting. Guests or residents heading to apartments on the upper floors are greeted with automatic lighting triggered by motion sensors for LEDs. No additional light sources are necessary, and LEDs thus demonstrate their potential in "real" lighting solutions. The main objective for the lighting installations in the corridor areas was to keep service costs down throughout the lifespan of the equipment. The tower is also supplied with 100% locally produced renewable energy, and the tower is said to be living up to the objective of 105 kWh per square meter per year.

:: LED Magazine

Leaf LED Lighting by Herman Miller and Yves Behar

Treehugger describes Leaf LED interior lighting designed by Herman Miller and Yves Behar, emphasizing sustainable processes, materials and recyclability.

Link: Treehugger: Leaf LED Lighting by Herman Miller and Yves Behar

Herman Miller has teamed with San Francisco-based uber-designer Yves Béhar to bring the world what they think is the next generation of interior lighting. Leaf is a combination of LED technology, engineering and design; "a fusion of technology with humanity," according to Béhar. Its unusual design allows for direct or ambient light from the same source -- kind of like a bunch of LEDs on a dimmer switch. "Leaf is designed to give the user a spectrum of choices to express light's magical and sensory variations," says Béhar of the light's ability to produce warm-to-cool colors with a simple touch control. Leaf has been developed according to Herman Miller's Design for the Environment protocol, emphasizing sustainable processes, materials and recyclability; overall, Leaf's LEDs consume less than 12 watts of power, carry a lifespan of over 60,000 hours at full power, and cut energy use by 40 percent compared to compact fluorescent lights. Officially unveiling will occur at ICFF next month, and Leaf will be available from Herman Miller retailers and dealers by July.

::aptbroadcast

via ::MoCo Loco

Luceplan's Zeno Lamp

Link: Inhabitat

...the ingenious idea of bringing natural light indoors is moving out of the experimental labs and into contemporary home furnishings with Luceplan's Zeno Lamp.

Designed by Italian architects Diego Rossi and Raffaele Tedesco, the Zeno Lamp brings natural sunlight indoors through a system of light collectors and fiber-optic cables. The true beauty of the Zeno lamp lies in its flexibility of use - not only can it pipe natural light indoors, but it can also be used with a wide variety of artificial light sources (fluorescent, halogen, halide) - insuring that you always have light - day or night.

The sophisticated system uses the integration of natural and artificial light to create a variety of different colours and chromatic yields at varying temperatures and efficiencies.

+ ZENO at Luceplan

Via Treehugger

Fluttering Butterfly Lamp

Nicki Mellado posted the following description of Lauren Moriarty's fluttering butterfly lamp on the Inhabitat blog.

Link: Inhabitat

Lauren Moriarty has developed a beautiful lamp based on the optical illusions that are created from layering multiple images in front of a light source. This pseudo-moiré effect comes to life when viewed from different angles, as the butterflies appear to flutter. These "Butterfly Effect" lamps make the most of a relatively simple idea, juxtaposing patterns to create movement. Released at London's Design Week last year, these delightful lamps are part of Moriarty's studies of illusion in domestic products.

Via Core77

Moriarty studied Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins in London and has developed textiles and products that are stimulating both visually and tactilely. Her work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions and publications.

+ Lauren Moriarty

Mondrian Lamp

Source: MoCo Loco: Mondrian Lamp.

Cecilie Manz produced this minimal lamp design using a simple, contemporary line. Making reference to the historic De Stijl group, "Mondrian" breaks conventional assumptions about lamp design creating a signature simplicity. Constructed of steel bar and pipe, the lamp includes halogen bulbs, and a moulded acrylic ring that lights up to indicate how to adjust the light. Comes in a table, wall, and floor version. JGB

+ lightyears.dk

MIOCULTURE BENDANT LAMP

Source: Inhabitat

The BENDANT lamp, by MIOculture, blends the advantages of both mass-production and hand-made craft. The lamp comes to you as a mass-produced template that is ready to be bent into a unique shape, resulting in an absolutely one-of-a-kind creation.

The flat-packed chandelier is made of durable, laser-cut, powder-coated, flexible steel. By bending the various leaf-cut pieces into different orientations, the chandelier takes on dimension and character. The ingenuity behind the Bendant lamp is that the uniqueness of the product is authentic; unlike other companies who have added prepacked quirks to their designs to give them a one-of-a-kind effect, this is the real thing.



MIOculture follows the mass-customization manufacturing strategy of prefab: creating flat uniform components that facilitate waste-reduction, both in fabrication and packaging. To add to the eco-friendliness of the piece, the steel in the Bendant lamp is 100% recyclable.

+ MIOculture

Angel's Trumpet.

Source: Funfurde: angel's. trumpet.

The Angel's Trumpet is a ceiling light that looks sort of like an upside down blossoming flower and a lot more like some kind of alien infestation. Or even, perhaps, the trumpet of an angel. How does it achieve that effect? Because it's made out of sculpted Unyru Japanese paper.

Halley LED Lamps by Knoll

Link: Treehugger: Halley LED Lamps by Knoll.

This LED lamp is part of the Halley Collection of lights, designed by Richard Sapper for Lucesco Lighting. The 20 watts of warm white LED light produces the equivalent light output of 75-100 watt incandescent bulb. The LEDs in Halley also produce no UV radiation and dissipate heat throughout the back of the LED package, reducing heat emission and energy spent on cooling.

:: Halley LED Lamps by Knoll via The Gadget Blog