Chandeliering

Designer and Bespoke Chandeliers, Suspension, and Pendant Lighting
June 16, 2013

Lansing for Hudson Valley Lighting

by Gabriel Sistare

Lansing_9918-WSNThe ellipse as the core of a design leads to the final product becoming a fulfillment of the shape that is itself an example of equilibrium and stable orbit. Domes, and orbs, and bowl-shaped forms in modern architecture and design are all an opportunity for us to understand, and to see properties of the universe that occur in quantities so vast, we have no way to understand them except only in artistic recreations.
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June 13, 2013

The Hicks Pendant by Thomas O’Brien for Visual Comfort & Co.

by Gabriel Sistare

hicks-1Off of the Northeast Florida coast, I lived on an island. At the Northern end of the island, there was a fort once staffed by Union soldiers guarding the entrance to the intracoastal waterway during the Civil War. On this island, I dreamed I lived in the fort. It was not wartime, and I may have been the only occupant. And the colors of the island were similar to the simultaneously creepy and soothing colors of Bruno Delbonnel and Jeff Cronenweth’s cloudy cinematographic pallets. The dream is a fabrication, but what I imagine while I am in this fort is an aesthetic derived from the design of the Hicks Pendant by Thomas O’Brien for Visual Comfort & Co.
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June 12, 2013

Sfera for Seguso

by Erin Pesut

seguso1Living in Spain last year, I ate a lot of candy. Not a ton, but with meals being far apart and Spain-specific chocolate bars being something I probably wouldn’t be able to buy once I left the country, I loaded up. Read the rest of this entry »

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June 12, 2013

Celeste Sphere by Stray Dog Designs

by Alicita Rodriguez

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Besides a celestial body or a three-dimensional circle, sphere refers to a person’s body of knowledge or domain of influence. This week Chandeliering is focusing on the sphere—as a concept and shape, of course.

Our first foray into the orbiculate comes from a perro callejero (stray dog or street dog, though in the original Spanish the term infers a degree of wanderlust, as in dog-about-town). I don’t mean to say that the designer is herself a dog, but rather that the company known as Stray Dog Designs originated from a fortuitous encounter with a bat-eared mutt. In brief: expat newlyweds Bill Pritchard and Jane Gray were cleverly adopted by stray dog La Princessa in a Mexican town, which led to the successful co-parenting of the aforementioned canine, which in turn gave the couple the confidence to start a business together. Read the rest of this entry »

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June 6, 2013

ICFF 2013: The NUD Collection

by Erin Pesut

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If things today are about stripping down to the basics, then being NUD is fashionable. Read the rest of this entry »

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June 6, 2013

ICFF 2013: newGROWTH Vine Chandelier by CP Lighting

by Alicita Rodriguez

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Philadelphia-based CP Lighting exhibited a new incarnation of its newGROWTH series at ICFF 2013. The company’s newGROWTH Vine Chandelier does more growing than its previous models, since it’s designed as a modular fixture that’s vertically oriented—the ideal chandelier for “tall spaces like atriums, grand stairwells and soaring entry foyers.” Read the rest of this entry »

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June 3, 2013

ICFF 2013: The Welles by Gabriel Scott

by Gabriel Sistare

WELLES Long I never took Chemistry, either in high school or college. Peripheral to the pursuit, I’ve heard too many stories from friends who were elated to receive near-failing grades. They observed this close-escape-from-execution academia as standard–the volatility of chemistry excusing the inconsistency of a student’s marks. But with most physical sciences and mathematics, keeping a manageable distance as an admirer, I’m interested in their aesthetic potential. The attempt to simulate abstraction, between galactic distance and clouds of electrons, leads to beautiful art created under pressure to comprehend.
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June 2, 2013

ICFF 2013: Bright Cotton by Keren Shiker

by Erin Pesut

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“Some people see things as they are and ask, ‘Why?’ I see things that never were and ask, ‘Why not?’” Keren Shiker quotes George Bernard Shaw on the pamphlet she handed out in New York City at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair 2013. She has come all the way from Israel. She once became interested in the way light would shine through cotton. Read the rest of this entry »

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June 2, 2013

ICFF 2013: Botanicals Series by LightArt

by Alicita Rodriguez

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Based in Seattle, LightArt crafts all its lighting by hand. The company’s team of local artisans works on every product “from concept to completion.” When LightArt gave its designers free reign to create a light inspired by nature, the results were as wondrous and beauteous as Mother Nature herself. Artists took their cues from the flora at Seattle’s Volunteer Park Conservatory, a 100-year-old Victorian-style greenhouse. The resulting lighting series illuminates the aesthetic talent and vision of LightArt: “The Botanicals series showcases the diversity of talent and creativity abundant in our studio, following our mission to create artistic, one-of-a-kind lighting solutions that are unlike anything you have seen before.” Read the rest of this entry »

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May 26, 2013

ICFF 2013: Sydney by Mary Wallis for Matter

by Danielle Alexander

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Expressionist architecture is characterized by “unusual clusters of mass,” according to everyone’s favorite online encyclopedia. Thus too the Sydney Opera House and the pendant lamp “Sydney” by designer Mary Wallis. Speaking of expressionism: what adjective best captures this glass-and-metal creation? It’s witty; it is indeed a nod to the Opera House; it’s almost chirpy, in the sense that it’s “cheerfully lively” (Merriam-Webster: chirpy, chirpier, chirpiest!). Its architecture also sings with expression, via its high center of gravity (an “unusual cluster of mass”) as well as its gleeful nod to the Opera House in the bent-back beak of its glass panels. Read the rest of this entry »

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