In 1958 the French sociologist Roger Caillois opined that "L'esprit du jeu est essentiel à la culture"1, 'the spirit of play is essential to culture', an opinion that finds an echo in a Charles Eames' "toys are not really as innocent as they look. Toys and...
...Certainly at the lamp level; the funnel, flacon, form of the lamps however meaning that the ceiling above the lamp is bathed in unfiltered, untransformed light, thereby enabling the Burn Lace lamps to offer two levels of indirect lighting... And which posses the question if some form of positionable 'cap' might not be an option to allow for more control of the lighting, of the atmosphere...
As the, then, still plain Walter Scott, so nearly opined in 1806: "November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear: Late, gazing down the steepy linn That hems our little garden in, I thought, what an excellent month to visit an...
...Following on from the co-winners of the inaugural Grassimesse smow-Designpreis Hevesi Annabella/Line and Round and Cornelius Réer the winner of the 2nd edition is Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule, Halle, Interior Architecture Masters student, Nadja Schulze for her lighting projects LiLa, Bow and 360°... Including the connecting of several lighting elements to create long chains of light rather than the single sources as presented at the 2024 Grassimesse...
...smow Blog: Certainly, and its something we very much enjoy about the project; however their main business is enamel pots and pans, how did they react when two designers arrived from Budapest and said 'we want to make furniture and lighting'?...
