Gizmodo: chandelier

Lego Chandelier Is Perfect for Brick-Sucking Draculas

Jesus Diaz — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:18:09 EST

This huge Lego chandelier would have been perfect for the James May's Lego house. If James May's Lego house were actually a castle in Transylvania and he were a vampire, that is. Still, it's amazing that it is 100% Lego.

Kind of creepy, but still amazing. [Yanko Design]

The Force Lamp "Pushes You To Surrender"

Sean Fallon — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:40:00 EDT

If there is one thing I can't stand it's the asinine descriptions for designer products that vastly overinflate the importance of the object and the people that created it. Take this Force Lamp for example.

No, this charismatic and almost flying lamp was not recycled from a WW2 bomber nor from a soviet nuclear submarine. Its seriousness, fatality and its "impossible to ignore" nature are all genuine. This lamp was not crafted to impress, but to conquer. It gives you a reason to stop.

It gives you an excuse to escape. It gently pushes you to surrender. Under its powerful embrace you are free to feel protected.

It's a fucking lamp. Here is my description:

Owning this lamp will remind you of watching Spaceballs. Seriously, it should have been called the "Schwartz Lamp."

Eh..eh? [Dezeen]

This Chandelier Is Fan-Friggin-Tastic

Sean Fallon — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:30:00 EST

The enthusiastically titled "Fan-Tastic Chandel-Air" by Meyda lighting combines, you guessed it, a chandelier and a fan into one crazy looking customizable design.

The first design in the series, "Tall Pines at Dusk" features "a Silver Mica shade transformed into a decorative /functional casement for a 29-inch fan." It is also designed to be an energy saver with blades that can reverse direction—pulling hot air up in the summer and pushing it down in the winter. No pricing information has been made available, but it is billed as a handcrafted work of art, so prepare to overpay accordingly. [Meyda via Core77]

Cara Lamp is Crystal-Like LED and Silver Circuit-Board Beauty

Kit Eaton — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:18:00 EDT

Those little interlaced blades of ice you sometimes get on the edge of ultra-cold things in wet air: that's the image that popped into my head on seeing the Cara lamp. It's by designer Andreas Ostwald and that fragile crystal-like shape is composed of interlocked flat white circuit boards with silver tracks, sprinkled with 70 white LEDs. How lighting should be to my mind: simple, elegant and stunning. Though presumably it's designer status gives it a price premium that'll place it beyond my lustful reach. [Contemporist via LuxuryLaunches]

The World's Largest LED Chandelier Sips Electricity, Champagne

Mark Wilson — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:05:00 EDT

This 7000lb behemoth chandelier has a 35-foot diameter of steel, glass and acrylic. It features 328 lights. And it only uses 1120 watts of electricity. Constructed by Meyda Tiffany for the e Stanley Theater in Utica, New York, the opulence of a gigantic piece of lighting art is unquestionably more palatable when it's not eating our coal, killing our dolphins, etc. Bonus shot after the jump.

[Meyda Tiffany via Gizmowatch]

Trapeze Chandelier Really Spices Up Key Parties

Jason Chen — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:30:00 EDT

What better than a pajama'ed gentleman swinging gracefully back and forth in the middle of your living room to make the statement, "I am an adult, and I have arrived." Unlike traditional chandeliers, which have too many lights and too few places to hang off of, this trapeze chandelier allows five models to lounge around and work up a sweat—an event you'd usually have to pay good money to see. Would we want one? Of course, but it's just a concept, meaning we're going to have to make a trip down to Home Depot this afternoon with some pencils and a crumpled-up piece of graph paper. [Bernstrand via DVICE]

DIY LED Chandelier From Xmas Lights

Brian Lam — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:21:34 EST

Xmas is almost over. Use this tutorial to make an LED lamp from Christmas lights, which is a good way to get use out of them the other 11 months of the year. I'd hang it upside down as a DIY geek chandelier. Be Warned: The tutorial has some mind-numbing steps, like stripping out the LEDs from the Xmas light strand, and some complex wiring and soldering. Much like a professionally made chandelier, making something this ornate is going to be labor intensive. And maybe electrocute you. [Instructables]

Tentacle Chandeliers (To Class Up the Place)

Mark Wilson — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:52:36 EST

By artist Adam Wallacavage, these "Pulsatilla" chandeliers are both a bit gorgeous and disturbing. But replace that light bulb with a vagina, and you have at least one Gizmodo writer's ultimate fantasy.

This particular model is sold out, but hit the jump to see more octopus/tentacle chandeliers.

$10,000

$8,500

Collect all three. [gallery via boingboing]

Star Trek Lamp Illuminates Your Bridge

Jason Chen — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:00:47 EDT

Speaking as Star Trek fans, if we were rich enough to own a home that had a chandelier, we'd definitely get one of these Star Trek Enterprise models. It features a big lamp as the saucer section and three smaller bulbs as the nacelles. On second thought, the total inaccuracy of this thing (the Enterprise only had two nacelles, thank you, unless you're talking about the Future Enterprise from the last episode of TNG) makes us reconsider our purchase. Holy shit, we're huge dorks. [LampsUSA via Geekalerts via Boing Boing Gadgets]

Low Tech but Highly Delicious: Gummy Bear Chandelier

Matt Buchanan — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:30:07 EST

Part of an entire series of gummy bear sculptures by YaYa Chou, this chandelier looks both tasty and retro-chic. But we can't help but wonder how long it will hold up. It seems like only a matter of time before it's either devoured in a nostalgic munchie fit or melted by the light bulbs into a swirling, sticky rainbow of goop. Here's the real question, though: "Is she using Haribo, the one and only true brand of gummy bears?" Scope the close-up after the jump to check.

– Matt Buchanan

YaYa Chou Sculpture [YaYa Chou via Boing Boing]

Schwag Ideas: Ball-point Pen Chandelier

Travis Hudson — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:03:20 EST

With every damn booth at CES giving out a cheap pen, I think this pen chandelier by artist En Pieza would be the best use for all of them.

Check out all of the schwag goods from CES here. –Travis Hudson

Ball point pen chandelier [MAKE]

Penis-Pump Chandelier: Peace Pump

Mark Wilson — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 10:38:58 EST

Part of the Peace Needs a New Logo event in Aoyama during Tokyo Design Week, this chandelier is comprised of the internal makeup of Tenga penis pumps.

A Nokia researcher had this to say about the piece:

...the obscurity of its origins, its display in a public space, and the very personal nature of a Tenga's use make this lamp shade a conversational bonding experience...

Peace may need a new logo, but trust me, this ain't it. – Mark Wilson

Personal Cultural Radar [via boingboing]

Dear Ingo Task Lamp Chandelier

gizmodo.com — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:08:39 EST

Task lamps are so ubiquitous in our daily lives and therefore so blah that we barely think about them, and yet somehow Ron Gilad's Dear Ingo chandelier, made with sixteen of them, manages to be surprisingly sinister and incredibly sexy at the same time. $2951, if you think you can live with this exquisite monster.

Dear Ingo by Ron Gilad [Unica Home, via productdose.com]