Feb 27
Yes, this is a super-charged chandelier constructed with 60 plain old, garden-variety pickles as bulbs. It crackles. It spits. It smells like burnt vinegar—and it uses enough power to illuminate a city block.
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Jan 03
As far as I’m concerned, your dining room can never have too many tentacles. So if you have an extra few grand, this stained glass octopus chandelier can be yours. It even has detachable limbs that can hold candles and glow.
Imagine that Octopus looking down on you are you eat all of your meals, just glowing as if almost ready to attack you and drag you into it’s lair. It was made by Mason Parker of Mason’s Creations. Parker says that each of the tentacles would be about 30 inches-long if they were stretched out, and the lamp itself measures four feet across as it is.
The body and the tentacles can light up separately or all at once. So how menacing it is, is up to you. If you want it, it will cost you $18,000(USD). When you think about it, that’s just $2,250 per tentacle.
[Steampunk Tendencies via io9]
Dec 29
This Lord of the Rings dining room set is crazy awesome and perfect for anyone who is obsessed with Tolkien. The quality and workmanship here is stunning. This room would be your precious.
The One Ring chandelier is the focal point. Plus even the chairs have the White Tree of Gondor carved on them. Nice. The Eye of Sauron is also on the back of the chairs and the carvings along the side and near the bottom. Then you have the ring repeated on the bottom of the table. Apparently, the table was made by a now defunct company called Middle Earth Furniture (I am not making that up.)
If you are invited to dinner at this house, “You shall not pass” up an opportunity to eat at this amazing table. It is absolutely beautiful.
[via Geek Universe via The Mary Sue]
Sep 04
Why didn’t I think of this? J.J. Hendricks built this awesome chandelier out of old NES light guns. You know, the trusty old orange Duck Hunt zappers.
When you have a huge amount of light guns in stock and they aren’t selling, you can either sigh and move on or you can build yourself a lightgun chandelier. All it took was some light guns, about 20 feet of electrical wire, 12 candelabra sockets and light bulbs.
He had to install it in his warehouse entry way because like so many of us, J.J. has a wife who just doesn’t appreciate his geek decor, and so she didn’t want it hanging over the dining room table.
It cost J.J. about $200 and took about 15 hours to build. Awesome. It’s like a beautiful geek star.
[via JJGames]
Jun 06
King Edison Pendant Lamp: Which Came First, the Light Bulb or the Chandelier?
Posted in: Today's ChiliWhat you see below is not a product of Photoshop. It’s the King Edison Pendant Lamp designed by Young & Battaglia, and it’s a cross between a light bulb and a chandelier.
Now normally, the chandelier would have a bunch of bulbs installed all around it. The tables are turned in this unusual lamp, though, as the chandelier is found inside a larger-than-usual “light bulb” with a diameter of 15 centimeters. It’s definitely an unusual piece to have in your home.
The King Edison is described as a combination of “the pure simplicity of an Edison light bulb with the romance and glamour of a Kings chandelier”, consisting of “a miniature brass chandelier inside a hand blown clear glass shade and satin chrome fittings.”
Something as intricate and unique as this obviously doesn’t come cheap. The King Edison is available online from Mineheart for £480 (~ $737 USD).
[via Gizmodo via Geekologie & INDULGD]
May 26
Chandeliers add a certain flair to any room you put them in. They can be colorful or glittering with crystals, long or short, and wide or narrow, and fitted with lamps so they can aptly illuminate the room.
Forms of Nature is another chandelier, but it’s more of an art form since the light sculpture does more than just light things up when you turn it on.
Flicking that switch on will cast shadows of twisty and thorny vines and branches on your walls that looks the outline of a very creepy patch of woods. Kind of like the ones Red was running around in when she was running from her wolf of a grandmother.
Forms in Nature was created by Hilden & Diaz, which is a collaboration between artists Thyra Hilden and Pio Diaz.
The light sculpture is described as resembling and being inspired by Darwinist Ernst Haeckel’s drawings and plots of nature. It is described by its creators as “artwork with a light source surrounded by a dense and unruly tree and root system created in minature sculpture. The forest is mirrored around it’s horizontal central axis and forms a circle 360 degrees around the light source and thereby leads one onto the notion of a real world versus an underworld.”
Forms in Nature has been such a hit that Hilden & Diaz are currently working on launching a Kickstarter campaign to produce 100 pieces of the light sculpture.
[via Geekologie]
Mar 18
I have a tendency to be pretty modern in terms of my design choices around the house, so traditional chandeliers aren’t really my cup of tea. However, I might make an exception if I could have a chandelier that looked like an octopus.
These eyepopping chandeliers by artist Adam Wallacavage replace their candle-holding arms with twisty tentacles.
Each of these cephalopod chandeliers is made from various bits and bobs including lamp parts, epoxy clay and spray paint, among other things. While his designs may be based on some of the more unusual and creepy looking creatures on the planet, Adam manages to infuse a bit of whimsy and elegance into his designs, primarily through his choices of colors and finishing touches.
You can out more of Adam’s slithery octopus chandeliers over on his website.
Ironically, Adam is allergic to shellfish, as well as octopus.
[via High Fructose and Octavekitten via Laughing Squid]
Jan 13
Nope, this isn’t a UFO, it’s a functional modern art installation that was installed in the atrium of the Level Shoe District, a 96,000 sq. ft. footwear emporium, situated within the Dubai Mall. Of course, something this extravagant would only be in a shoe store in Dubai.
The sculpture, called “Fragment” is a 25-foot-high structure composed of 421 octahedron frames. It was developed by United Visual Artists, and the entire framework was designed to channel light downwards from the glass ceiling above to illuminate the interior during the daytime. When it’s dark, the structure also casts light from hundreds of integrated fluorescent tubes.
It’s definitely an impressive lighting fixture, if you can call it that, though I wouldn’t want to have to change a bulb in it when it burns out.
[via designboom]
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