Slamp open Bangkok showroom
Decorative lighting manufacturer Slamp has opened a new showroom in the heart of Bangkok.
Located on the third floor of the Boonthavorn Lighting Center, on Rachadapisek Road in Bangkok, the 300 sqm space had its grand opening on 16th 2014. Architects, journalists and customers attended the opening day, led by Adriano Rachele, designer of such Slamp bestsellers like Veli, Étoile and Clizia.
Flos and Anastassiades to create V&A installation for LDF
Designer Michael Anastassiades is to collaborate with Flos to create a lighting installation for the V&A museum during this year's London Design Festival (LDF). Each year, the museum acts as a notional figurehead venue for the LDF, and often hosts impressive installations of iconic temporary installation.
The piece created by Anastassiades and Flos will comprise a ring of mouth-blown opaline spheres and brass. The piece is an appreciation of the pearl diving mermaids of Japan. Ama women have been free diving for 2000 years, harvesting seaweed, turban shells and abalone from beneath the coastal waters. Only equipped with visual acuity, lung capacity and a hunter’s instinct, they would dive some 30 feet down in cold water, confronting minus zero conditions at times, and only wearing a loincloth, in search of the goods lying on the Ocean bed.
The Ama women’s diligent search for pearls is recorded in the oldest Japanese anthology of poetry, Man’yoshu, and has continued into the twentieth century. The tides of change had gone almost unnoticed in the Ama com- munity until it faded out in the 1960’s. The installation is a tribute to the savage beauty of the last Ama women, still diving at the age of 90, as well as to those who were taken away by the twentieth century events within the Japanese archipelago.
Ama will be on display from 13 - 21 September 2014.
www.flos.com
www.michaelanastassiades.com
100% reveals lighting line-up
Organisers of 100% Design, the original heart of London Design Festival, have revealed some of the lighting manufacturers and makers exhibiting at this year's show (17-20 September 2014).
While British rising star Naomi Paul (Stand L224) – also a newcomer to the show - will bring her signature hand-crocheted, spun pendants to 100% Design, Argentina-based Weplight (Stand L33) will showcase its latest lighting collection using flexible wood veneers, creating intriguing sculptural forms and unparalleled aesthetic flair.
Polish handmade glass expert Baranska Design (Stand L260) will present its new Wave glass lamp, and Danish brand Ebb & Flow (Stand L5) will launch its new Speak Up! table lamp inspired by an old-school stage microphone.
Other key lighting companies to look out for include Delightfull (Stand L1), Original BTC (Stand L50 and L200), Davey Lighting (Stand L50 and L200) and Mullan Lighting (Stand L152).
International creator Philippe Starck will open the show on 17 September. Staged over 22,000 sqm, this year will be the show's last appearance at Earls Court London before moving to Olympia London in 2015.
Great Northern hosts lighting design talks
The Great Northern Hotel in London provided the location for a series of tours, demonstrating the various elements of good lighting design from the light source technology used through to the final decorative finish.
Firefly Lighting Design, Xicato and Lucifer Lighting hosted the tours in association with the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards showcasing the hotel's many outstandingly lit and award winning interior spaces.
Peter Veale (Firefly), Roger Sexton (Xicato) and Claire Gleed (Lucifer Lighting) led guests around the hotel and showcased their respective expertises. Veale discussed the lighting’s position and specification, while Sexton compared Xicato’s LED modules to Halogen and other LED technologies through demonstrations. Ultimately, all partners showed their efforts met the design brief – and created outstanding lighting results.
www.xicato.com
www.luciferlighting.com
www.fireflylightingdesign.com
lightjunction at designjunction returns for LDF 2014
Organisers have revealed details for the fourth edition of the designjunction show, which returns to the Sorting Office on New Oxford Street for this year’s London Design Festival.
The 2014 edition will see the show expand onto a fourth floor of the former Royal Mail building, enabling more than 180 leading global brands to exhibit. These include some of the best global decorative lighting brands, which will be showing under the lightjunction 'show-within-a-show'. Organised in partnership with Cameron Peters Fine Lighting, this year lightjunction will encompass the entire basement and parts of the first and second floors. Key lighting brands throughout the show include Jake Dyson, Lightyears, Zero, Northern Lighting, Anglepoise, Marset and Brokis. BlackBody bring a pioneering and hi-tech installation to the show, set to transform the underground space with over 2,700 O-LED pixels lighting the way for visitors from the ground floor down to the basement of the Sorting Office.
Leading lighting brands to look out for throughout lightjunction include Lightyears, Artemide, Zero, Anglepoise, Cini & Nils, ÖRSJÖ, Marset, Buster + Punch and Brokis – all of whom will present new products.
This year's lightjunction will also provide a platform for like-minded professionals and lighting industry VIPs to meet and connect with the introduction of Lightdating - a series of one-on-one meetings that will allow interior designers and brands to meet face-to-face in an inspiring and brand focused environment.
Funkii
Created for Viso by designer FIlipe Lisboa, Funkii is formed from high quality ceramic. All white, the only splash of colour comes from the inside of the piece and its interior texture of metallised in copper, gold or silver. Light plays on the three-dimensional, colourful landscape of the piece’s interior.
Mackintosh
In 1900, Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibited at the Viennese Secession. The show, curated by Josef Hoffmann, saw the introduction of the ‘New Style’ for which Mackintosh received international recognition. Among his work was this piece, originally designed as a street lamp for the Glasgow School of Art. It marks a departure from the floral touches seen in his earlier works in favour of a cleaner, cubist approach.
Fuschia Chandelier
This design, based on the form of Fuschia flowers, is one of a wide range of graceful chandeliers from Willowlamp, constructed using a patented system of attaching coloured ball-chains to laser-cut steel frames. Illuminated by a suspended spiraling arrangement of G4 Halogen 20W lamps in Pyrex glass balls.
www.willowlamp.com
Starry Light
The Starry Light collection by Budapest-based duo Anna Farkas and Miklós Batisz produces downward illumination while also projecting a starscape onto the ceiling above. It is available in four different colours and features an illustration of the constellations on its inner surface.
Rebay
Jon Male takes original glass lampshades, sourced from ebay, and brings them together to create experimental pieces that play with form and colour. The style of each Rebay light is informed by the period of the original lampshade used. This latest series is influenced by the Memphis style.
Make&Mold Domelight
The Make&Mold series has been expanded with the Dome Light. Available in two sizes, these pendants are manufactured using a patented moulding technique that allows the inner surface of the shade to retain its rough recycled polypropylene aesthetic, a contrast to its smooth outer skin.
www.handmadeindustrials.com
Globula
Emma Winter used the small, white-cube booth at Tent to demonstrate her bespoke sculptural and spatial design work, for which she is increasingly in demand. These included Globula, nest-like forms, cast in resin and covered in gold leaf. Surface finish can be made to client specifications.
www.emmawinter.com
