Benjamin Hubert’s latest range Labware just won the Best New Product award at 100% Design in London. Inspired by traditional glassware you may find in a laboratory, the collection comprises a series of beaker like forms transformed into pendant lighting. The detailing of these pieces is beautiful. Not only are they hand blown but the tops are also made from portugese cork adding a more natural feel to the range.
These beautiful pieces are by Piero Lissoni for Italian manufacturer Glas Italia. Proving that its often the most visually simple things that are the hardest to achieve, Wireframe employs some extraordinarily difficult manufacturing processes. One example is the perfectly joined, glass edges. Each side intersects the other at opposing angles so each glass edge must be individually ground at the correct inclination to achieve this inherently difficult slanted form.
This piece is from a range of glassware by the students of Karlsruhe University, working in conjunction with German designer Werner Aisslinger. The focus here is on experimentation however the process seems to have yielded some unexpectedly beautiful results.
Now with some more lighting, this time by German designer Richard Dienes. This series incorporates a blown glass shade mixed with some nice blue flex. I especially like the form of the pendant and like our previous post I think these benefit from their contrasting material palette.
The Furore lamp by Lima De Lezando is a wonderful exercise in materiality and form. Not only does the lamp provide an interesting counterpoint to other pendant clusters but it also combines a nice mix of both solid and translucent components.
