Check this out - a lamp that is flat packed and shipped, and once you receive it, you bend it into shape.  Behold, the Bendant Lamp by Jaime Salm.  Mio has the Bendant Lamp for $175.  From the product page:

Description
The Bendant Lamp is a flat-packed chandelier composed of a series of leaf-like shades surrounding a central fixture. Bend the shades up or down and create unique light and shadow arrangements.

Philosophy
Material and process guide the Bendant Lamp’s design, making it a true example of eco-centric design. The size of the lamp, shape of the cuts and flat packaging are a result of material and manufacturing efficiencies. In addition, the lamp welcomes the user as co-designer pushing the boundaries of design and self-assembly.

Here’s another Daniel Becker piece - this one called “Melting Light,” and consisting of a pendant type source, LED, with a large reflector above.  It’s an interesting concept.  I’d love to see this (or at least a picture of it) illuminated.

Shelley Spicuzza is an Indianapolis based designer who has taken recycling and light to another level with her Reglow Lamp project.  Reglow is a clear poly bottle based lighting system that uses existing bottles to screw into a ball-shaped base, illuminating through the bottles and into your space.

Mountain Dew (the regular green or the crazy Code Red), clear bottles, blue bottles, any color you can find - screw them into Shelley’s Reglow Lamp and you’re eco-friendly.

Check out the Reglow Lamp page at Coroflot.

I just discovered a designer, Daniel Becker, who has some very interesting luminaires, doing very off things to form and function.  Beautiful things.  German things.

I’m going to post a few of his designs over the next few days.  Check out this one - it’s called Tee-Licht, which obviously means “huge ball supernova light thing” in German.

Get it?  Good.

Check out Daniel’s portfolio site.

I don’t have any kind of affiliate partnership with the products I write about, so I am doing it out of pure enjoyment of the fixture and its design.  One such product that I just ran across while researching is the Lalique Collection by ET2 from CSN Lighting.

CSN Lighting is kind of an upscale store, but the fixtures they have on their site are beautiful.  Definitely do some browser-window shopping.

Check out the Lalique Collection by ET2:

Giorgio and his big Italian style has created the Kappu Lamp.  His pieces, including the Kappu Lamp, are bold and colorful, with the entire unit acting as a diffuser.  The top and bottom separate, and are created from two pieces of thermoformed poly  that connect to hide the lamp source.

These pieces are mix and match, too - you can dream up your own combination of color.

Check out Giorgio’s Coroflot page.

Thanks, Yanko Design!

My good friend Tina Winslow of the DFW Modern Homes blog sent me this link - which was completely in French - about a designer named Ben Rousseau.  The first image - the table with the glowing poly underneath - was striking to me, and after I looked up his name I discovered a whole bunch of interior LED work.  Check out Ben’s portfolio site, there’s some beautiful work there.

Tina’s blog rocks, by the way.  Interior Design and craftsman accessories get a lot of great attention there.

In case you’re dying to know what the french site says about Ben Rousseau…

Very beautiful style by the architect and originator 3D Ben Rousseau, specialist in pieces of furniture overmeasure and products in interior. Years of experiment in production and a selection of original furniture to discover in the continuation.

Here’s the french page, translated.

“It’s a major award!”

I had a TD in grad school who had this in his office.  It always cracked me up.  Amazon has it for Christmas - know anyone who needs this in their office?

HAPPY HALLOWEEN from JimOnLight!

When I was trying to find some funny image to post for this goulish day, I discovered something eerily related to light, and what a perfect venue in which to post it!  Sorry, I wish that I had discovered these sooner!!!

Halloween Compact Fluorescent Lamps!

It sounds so kitchy to talk about a designer by a single name - Pablo Pardo, for example, being called “Pablo,” as if he’s the lighting designer formerly known as his real name.  Regardless of his rockstar-designer status, his work is innovative, functional, and in great form.  Pablo is among a small list of designers I’ve started to chronicle on Jim On Light - to spread the beauty of the relationship of form and fuction, especially with something as essential as illumination.

Enough of the ruminations on art for form and function - let’s look at the Ventana, by Pablo.

Ventana is a drapery-esque lighting fixture that has the ability to be raised and lowered, and has the ability to lie flat against the wall, or to be maneuvred perpendicular with the wall to which it is attached.

Ventana comes in a mini format (a little less wide than the original Ventana) and in the original length and width.  Y Lighting has the Ventana lamp on “sale” for $560.00.  No, I don’t have an affiliate membership at Y Lighting - it’s just an awesome lamp.