Henning Koppel's 'BUBI' pendant light, relaunched by Danish lighting manufacturer Pandul

Danish lighting manufacturer Pandul has brought a striking piece of classic Scandinavian design back to life by relaunching Henning Koppel’s ‘BUBI’ pendant light. Designed in 1972 and produced by Louis Poulsen until 1980, the reedition by Pandul sees the original brass component of the lamp substituted with chrome, whose brilliance acknowledges the designer’s renowned body of work in silver for, among others Georg Jensen. Koppel’s ‘Silver Fish Platter’ from 1954 is perhaps his best-known work in this metal.

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New series of glass lams by Rich Brilliant Willing

The New York based designers of Rich Brilliant Willing recently presented this new series of lamps. Due to their sturdy but elegant design the cast durable glass pendants can be used as a hanging pendant lamp, or laid on their sides as a table lamp.

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'Lens' by Jens Fager for ZERO

Back to roots: After times of formal experimentation and technical and aesthetic hig-end appearances it seems like the archtypical design found its way back to modern living rooms – original forms which refer to times, when things were above all appreciated for their usability. Some of the new creations by the Swedish lighting manufacturer ZERO took up this trend. Jens Fager’s series of lamps ‘Lens’ consists of two pendant lights and a table lamp. The lamp shades are made from painted aluminum and matt acrylic. The table lamp can be mounted on the adjustable table base or fixed through the table top.

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'Swan Lamp' by Tian Zhen

The Dutch designer Tian Zhen presented his new series of filigree lamps at this year’s Luminale, the satellite event during light+building in Frankfurt.

Both versions, the pendant as well as the floor light, are simply made from sheets of Tyvek paper sewn together and folded, without any extra hidden support. The lamps have a delicate leather base and slim wooden stands.

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'Bluff City Light' pendant light, by Atelier Takagi

Jonah Takagi, Washington based designer and founder of Atelier Takagi, recently launched these beautiful new creations: ‘Bluff City Light’ is a pendant light which particularly accentuates an element one usually tries to disguise – the ventilation grid. The enameled steel cage is combined with an elegant copper socket and an enameled minimal aluminum diffusor.

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'Kalotte' by Sebastian Summa for Hugo Bräuer Metallwaren

By means of its relatively simple and artless old buildings one can see that Neukölln, since a few year’s one of the hippest quarters of Berlin, used to be a typical worker’s house area with many workshops and lots of small-scale industry once.

Some of these old workshops survived and with the help of some Berlin based designers one of them was even able to draw attention to a trade which has almost disappeared behind the globalised market. Together with the industrial designer Sebastian Summa, who is trained as a blacksmith and graduated at University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, the 100 year’s old family owned metal spinning workshop Hugo Bräuer Metalware developed this beautiful series of suspension lamps.

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'Cloud' lamp by Studio Gorm

From 2D into 3D. The US design practice Studio Gorm realised this sober and – according to the used material – minimalist flat pack pendant light. The lamp shade is composed of a sheet of laminated fabric, which allows it to be folded and unfolded into its shape, removable fiberglass rods, which keep it rigid, two thin threats to keep the tension and two rings for the mounting of the light bulbs.

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'Stolz und Schabernack' by Stefan Wieland

The titles of his works are as bloomy as they are colourful in appearance: ‘Stolz und Schabernack’ (‘pride and hoax’) or ‘Der frühe Morgen ist Verheißung’ (‘the early evening is a promise’). The German designer Stefan Wieland creates loud and expressive lamps and furniture made from roughly worked – welded, painted and bent materials such as acryl glass, veneer or laminate. In his likewise crude but beautiful explanations you will read comments like “To provoke errors and then cultivate them”, “Sunshine, o sunshine, how you are shining in my cup of peppermint tea” and “to split a painting into fragments and restructure”.

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'Print' by Sylvain Willenz Established & Sons

This soft and highly elegant pendant light presented by British manufacturer Established & Sons was developed by the Belgian designer Sylvain Willenz. Against one’s expectations the single bubble of blown glass which includes the shade, the colour, the reflector and the diffuser has been produced throughout one gesture. ‘Print’ is a not only a reinterpreataion but a smart and graceful advancement of the archtypical light globe.

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'Cloud Softlight' by molo

The Canadian manufacturer molo is specialised in flexible honeycomb structures made from paper and textiles of which they create room deviders, furniture and interior lighting. ‘Cloud Softlight’ is the newest product of the Vancouver based company. It is available in four different sizes and can create a luminous overhead canopy, hung in clusters, tailored to the individual space they are shaping. Light source: LED

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