A Thunderstorm, Frozen in Marble and Gold Leaf

A Thunderstorm, Frozen in Marble and Gold Leaf

Most lamps ask very little of you. They sit in corners, cast light, get switched off. Electric Rocks, a new collectible luminaire by British designer Mark Mitchell for Italian marble company Serafini, refuses to be ignored. It is two blocks of marble split open by a bolt of lightning, and the lightning is still there,…

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The Lamp That Nine Artisans Built by Hand

The Lamp That Nine Artisans Built by Hand

Most lamps disappear into a room. They’re functional, fine, forgettable. The new collection from Taiwan-Lantern, shown this week at ICFF during NYCxDESIGN in New York, does the opposite. These are lamps you stop in front of. Lamps you study. Objects that reward attention the longer you give them. The Amsterdam-based studio, founded by Pei-Ching Hsiao…

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The Lexon x Jeff Koons Collaboration Makes Functional Art Worthy to Adorn Your Living Room

The Lexon x Jeff Koons Collaboration Makes Functional Art Worthy to Adorn Your Living Room

Lexon has always operated in that precise zone where design meets desire, making objects that earn their place on a shelf by being genuinely useful and genuinely beautiful at the same time. Its speakers, lamps, and accessories carry a recognizable visual language: clean geometry, thoughtful materiality, the feeling that someone spent serious time thinking about…

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