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CRISALIDA
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The lampshades CRISALIDA by French Designer, Aurélie Richard, launched her latest collection of lampshades, CRISALIDA. The cocoon-shaped brightly coloured shades are made by hand from felted merino wool. Although each piece is unique, the lampshades are available in three different sizes. They can
GRAPPA
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This impressive chandelier, that starts at the ceiling and ends just above the floor, has a total length of 10 metres. It is balanced and attached at these two end points. The chandelier stem rolls upwards and projects a nine flower lamps (called GRAPPA) as it ascends. The lamps emerge from the stem at
VG&P Pendant Light
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Inspired by British industrial spun shades and pendants commonly found in canteens, workshops, shops and farms across the land, the VG&P Pendant remains true to the style of these British champions. Made up of two separate parts, the design has options for contrasting metallic colours and
FOSCARINI
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International design innovator, Foscarini, showcased its new lighting products at the Venice Biennale this year with its Alegro, Beehive, Plass and Vivace designs. Beehive suspension, designed by Werner Aisslinger, is inspired by nature. The lamp has gently rounded volume that is both sensual and elegant
THE BRECCE COLLECTION
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Italian Designer, Marco Stefanelli, breathes new life into disused wood blocks with his innovative and sustainable lighting designs. The Brecce Collection takes inspiration from natural objects that, in some way, have reached their final step of the life cycle. He collects the raw material from diverse
CURIOUSA & CURIOUSA
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Hand Blown Glass Lights by Curiousa & Curiousa Esther Patterson started her professional life as a graphic designer but returned to school in Nottingham to broaden her design education, trying her hand at many disciplines simultaneously from fabric design and re-upholstery to lighting design before
490 Desk Lamp
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490 is a compact, elegant desk lamp that utilises the latest in LED technology to create a highly functional and energy efficient luminaire. Striking design The clean, simple form grew from a desire to strip the desk lamp back to its very essence, keeping the components and manufacturing processes to an
SNOVSEN LAMP
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Danish designers Hans Toft Hornemann & Terkel Skou Steffensen, the two behind the Danish design collective MadeByWho, have designed the Snovsen lamp. The minimalistic aesthetics of the lamp, based on the circle and the square on the deisgn, refers to traditional Scandinavian design tradition, and
BALLOON LAMP
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The inspiration for the designer of this lamp is balloons. When we are young, we all love them. When we are old, we can still bring back the child in us and enjoy the beauty of those balloons we had everyday but in a different approach, through the Balloon lamp. Designed by CrousCalogero for Estiluz,
BLOOM BY MACMASTER
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MacMaster’s contemporary lighting and furniture is designed in-house by Alex MacMaster and Limahl Asmall, and is exclusively Hand-Crafted in their production workshop nestled in the rolling countryside of Worcestershire, Great Britain. The environment is ‘traditional meets modern’ with
KNOT LAMP
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Vitamin's Knot Pendant Lamps are beautifully controlled blown glass forms each supported solely by a vivid coloured cable tied into a monkey fist knot. The lamps are versatile and can be displayed in an illuminating cluster, a line, or alone creating a single ambient glow. Available in two complimenting
NEEDLE LAMP
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The Needle lamp is an adjustable low-power LED table lamp for use in the home environment. It presents a new and playful aesthetic in lighting that doesn't compromise on functionality or usability. A precision lens directs light into a focused and controlled area, adjusted simply by touching and
AVA LAMP
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The Ava light is a premium adjustable LED lamp designed to fit into both the home and office environment. The lamp pivots in 3 axis giving the complete range of movement you would expect from a traditional angle poise lamp but with a new, fresh and less engineered aesthetic. The Ava lamp has variable
OMI PENDANTS
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Designed by Naomi Paul, the Omi pendant collection, GLUCK, XL GLUCK, SONNE, XL SONNE and HANNA are the principal designs in a series of handcrafted minimal flat pack pendants that evolved from the desire to create lighting that is timeless, playful and quietly opulent. They are designed to be used in any
BELL
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Normann Copenhagen presents Bell, designed by Andreas Lund and Jacob Rudbeck. The expression is robust, the form is simple. Bell is a steel ceiling lamp in an iconic bell shape and with special attention paid to its details. Its round, even surface gives the lamp the impression of having been cast rather
PAISLEY
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Paisley was created by Spanish design studio Luis Eslava Studio for LZF Lamps. It is a modular screen whose geometric, curvy shapes transform the light that passes through it. Paisley is an architectonic piece that allows us to define spaces by assembling several modules, but also a canvas where
CALABASH
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Lightyears new and classic designs includes Calabash by Komplot Design. Lightyears presented new lighting from its collection plus some classic earlier designs during Clerkenwell Design Week. Lightyears showed lighting designed by Cecilie Manz, Formfjord, Hans Sandgren Jakobsen, Hidenori Kugi, Jorn
CLOUD SHADE
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Ochre is a tightly-knit design company founded in 1996 by two British women, Joanna Bibby and Harriet Maxwell Macdonald who met at art school. With a shared aesthetic for the beauty of the understated they were inspired to put their ideas into practice for their debut at 100% Design in London. The first