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How artist Jason Krugman turns power into striking light sculptures

Design Wanted

Jason Krugman’s mesmerizing light sculptures feature wire mesh forms studded with thousands of hand-soldered LED bulbs. We spoke to the designer after he recently winning a LIT Lighting Design Award for his project, Capella Basket. Why focus on sculptural lighting? This is what gives people pleasure about my work.

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Atris Lighting Atelier’s avant-garde lighting explores basic geometries

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The design studio’s latest collection features pendant lights inspired by the Russian Constructivist Kazimir Malevich. The collection is named after the 19th-century Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, whose abstract multi-layered paintings inform the shape of each lamp. Discover our highlights from the LIT Lighting Design Awards 2021.

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The LOOKNOW Xintiandi Flagship combines artistic studio with home comforts

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The “Space Object” installed in the window exhibition area transforms the front area of the store into a flexible space, providing the possibility of future collaboration with other brands and artists for pop-ups, installation displays, and media shows. Abandoned pipes were rearranged and turned into racks for handbags.

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Jörg Hugo’s bubble-like lighting tests the boundaries of hand-blown glass

Design Wanted

A recent boom in creative glassmaking has sparked a trend in unique, statement lighting like Jörg Hugo’s “Lightbodies” series, a collection of sculptural pendants that challenge the materiality of glass. The post Jörg Hugo’s bubble-like lighting tests the boundaries of hand-blown glass appeared first on DesignWanted.

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Highlights from the LIT Lighting Design Awards 2021

Design Wanted

Winners for the fifth global LIT Lighting Design Awards have been announced. Held annually, The LIT Design Awards recognises the efforts of talented international lighting product designers, lighting designers, manufacturers, design firms, and students from all over the world. Flat Bubble by Claudia Unterhauser, Ceiling Lights.

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In Common With opens Quarters showroom and hospitality venue in Tribeca

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New York lighting brand In Common With has opened a multi-functional space in a 19th-century Tribeca loft in time for NYCxDesign , and will host a shoppable experience and a variety of events during the festival and beyond.

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Tutto Bene references Streamline Moderne in tiny New York eyewear store

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Curved metallic surfaces influenced by early 20th century American industrial design form displays at this compact store in New York City , designed by London studio Tutto Bene for eyewear brand Cubitts. The artistic tributes continue in the restroom, which is papered with aluminium foil as an homage to Andy Warhol's Silver Factory.