Lighting

Large scale spectacle is the new now.

Early twenty-first century aesthetes have no choice but to venerate the industrial and the machine made

Exactly...our cup of post-industrial design tea.

Installation view of 'Conque' wall lights Image © Paul Tahon / Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec

'This unique context has often led us to compare our work for the gallery to the use of a sketch pad,

Perfect for dangling over TI's platform bed

While on vacation I've been reading legendary industrial designer Dieter Rams 10 Commandments of Design.

Andy Coolquitt's "iight" !

There it is!

Click "lighting" in the tags for this post and see TI's long search for brilliant living room lighting

Halleluia! I've found it. The living room light I've languished for

Extra points for the " random thought-initiated construction"

This one is a monster but methinks it's going to be one of the monster hits of 2009.

The Comet lamp is a perfect companion to your Mac desktop

There's a lot of really innovative and revolutionary objects pouring out of Milan Design Week 2009:

Starbricks' presented in the Sawaya and Moroni showroom in via Manzoni for the Milan Design Week 09 image © designboom

Remember Olafur's Eliasson's magnificent 2003 installation " Negative Quasi Brick Wall" with its mirrored cubes that fractured space every which way?

Tress by Marc Saddler wows em in Milan. Image via designboom