Thursday, June 17, 2010

Lighting: Functional Artwork

When you are at a starting point it can be the best place, but also the most daunting if you have no idea what to start with. Usually it’s easier if you start with one really bold item that you love, and use that as something to work around. An item that you find yourself attracted to is going to have elements of your personality infused into it.

Why not start with lighting? It is a necessity and as you will see there are innumerous options available. Lighting doesn’t have to be just functional, it can be a statement piece.

Mercury Suspension Ross Lovegrove


Some lamps are sculptural so that even when they’re not providing light they are pieces of sculpture.

Esferas Lampara Jose Gandia


Blob S Karim Rashid


This is an interactive piece of artwork. To turn on the lamp, you blow on the “candle.”

B.L.O. Marcel Wanders


Not all lighting has to have white fluorescent bulbs. Using colored lighting can alter your mood.

Living Colors Phillips

Lighting can also serve multiple purposes. A piece of furniture can has lights within in it.
Chester Chair Deep Design


A lamp can be sculpted to provide ambient uplighting can also be manipulated down for direct light.

Pipe Suspension Herzog & DeMeuron


There are also alternatives to electrical lighting. Candles provide a warm glow and the flickering flame creates a very dynamic environment.

Agnes Candelabra Lindsey Adelman


Solar powered LED lights that can be embedded into the ground allow you to have lighting even without an electrical outlet.

LED Solar Cynergy

LED Solar Cynergy

There are many different ways to use lighting to illuminate your life.

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