Blood Lamp By Mike Thompson.

First things first, I will say that this is morbid and crazy. However, the thought behind this is meaningful. Would I buy this lamp, no. Watching the youtube video of the lady powering up the lamp is gross enough.

Read this quote about the lamp's philosophy and see if you'll join that camp.

"Scenario designer, and seemingly a junior sociologist, Mike Thompson has documented an environmental and social experiment to measure the value of generated power. The idea behind Mike’s creation is to bring some added value and realization to an individual in terms of wasted energy. He states that the average American consumes about 3383kwh of energy per year. That is equal to leaving a light on in four rooms for a full year. It is the luxury and ignorance of being able to flick a switch and “produce” light that makes us ultimately waste energy. In doing this we do not give a single thought to how this is effecting the environment, nor do we consider the method(s) it may take to give us this light. To put a bit more emphasis and realization on the entire process Mike has created the Blood Lamp. For the lamp to produce light one must break off the top of the lamp, dissolve a tablet in the solution and use their blood to power the light. This creates a lamp that can only be used once and forces the user to consider the most important time that they need the light. It forces them to be more considerate and reflect of how wasteful we are with energy on a daily basis. There is also a deep metaphor in this as well where the blood in our bodies represents life and the energy we use everyday effects the world we live in somehow someway, thus effecting our quality of life. See, everything is cyclical."

Design Stockholm House Work Lamp.

Design house Form Us With Love designed these lamps for Design Stockholm House last year. I love them. They remind me of those work lamps in mines, boats, or construction sites but luxed. My favourite one has got to be the gold cage one. The lamps come with a switch on the lamp holder and on the 10 feet long wire, there is a dimmer. It can be modified into a pendant lamp. I bought the last piece just today from Style Nordic while it was on sale. It has become my new bedside lamp. Will take some photos soon and share it with you.

Form us with Love is a Swedish design studio inspired by the interaction between people and products and driven by a genuine love for design. The group consists of designer trio John Löfgren, Jonas Pettersson and Petrus Palmér, Work from Form us with Love includes furniture and lighting for several internationally recognized design companies and awards such as “Red Dot Design Award” and the “Young Swedish Design Award”.

Love Frankie Lampshades.

Found these lovely lampshades by Love Frankie. I love the contrast of colours and textures, like the black linen with gold lining, or turquoise silk dupion with gold lining. They are reasonably priced, from GBP35 to GBP50.

Chasen Lamp By Patricia Urquiola for Flos.

When Flos commissioned Italian designer, Patricia Urquiola to design a lamp for them, they must have known that it will be a hit. After all, the Caboche lamp, that she had designed for Foscarini a few years back was so well received. The Chasen lamp that she designed for Flos is simple in shape and colour yet its curves make it so fascinating and fun. The light gets beautifully diffused and the light dispersion can be altered by changing of the lamp's shape.

Louis Poulsen 50th Anniversary Editions.

Last year, Louis Poulsen released two 50th anniversary editions of their most iconic lamps, PH5 and PH Artichoke. As many have already known, the initials before the names of the lamps represent the designer. Eg. with the PH refers to Poul Henningsen and AJ refers to Arne Jacobsen.

Poul Henningsen was trained as an architect between 1911 and 1917 but he did not graduate. Instead he tried to be a painter and inventor. In 1958, he designed the PH lamps, of which the PH5 was the most popular. I met a couple of Danish folks and they tell me it is almost as though every other Danish home had a PH lamp in the 70s. For that same reason, it was not hard getting two pre-loved PH 5 pieces for my own home imported from Denmark. The simple lamp had a red and blue light filters so that the colour of the light would be soft and the concentric design eliminated visual glare. The 50th Anniversary editions are aptly named PH50. They come in 5 different colours to update the already modern looking lamp. The finishes are glossy giving them a wet look.

The PH Artichoke lamp is definitely one of the first lamps that drew me to lighting fixtures as an art piece. I love how the 72 pieces of leaves are put together without screws in a geometric fashion. The leaves are designed to reflect light and eliminate glare. It's original Danish name is PH Kogle which meant conifer cone, which was what Poul Henningsen took inspiration from. For the 50th anniversary, a sand blasted glass version was created. Unfortunately it came only in its smallest size. Out of curiosity, I decided to make a trip to Space Furniture to see it in flesh, bask in its beauty and also have a peek at its price. It's a king's ransom, ouch!

Poul Henningsen.

PH Artichoke Lamp, 50th Anniversary.

PH50, in 4 of the 5 colours. The 5th colour is just a high gloss white.

Tripod Floor Lamps.

I love the raw look of a tripod especially when it is finished in wood. Personally, it adds character to an object and creates a different feel. I thought why not feature a small posting on tripod floor lamps.

This is a fabulous idea on how to recycle your old tripod stand; have red electrical wires, attach it to a lamp holder and put on a nice lamp shade. Viola! An exclusive tripod floor lamp which is bound to be complimented on.

This is an actual home made tripod stand lamp. I think it looks fabulous.

Photographer's Tripod Floor Lamp from Pottery Barn.

Tripod Pharmacy Lamp by Gump's. This looks like a French Industrial Lamp but bigger.

Tripod Lamp in White by BDDW.

The Black version of the Tripod Lamp from BDDW.