In last month's issue of Dwell magazine I spot this series of lamps from Tom Dixon which brought me back almost immediately to a biba-resque moment, or maybe something out of Miss Havisham's lair of forgotten glamour in Great Expectations. Like sparkling jewels, these delicate-looking lamp shades are made out of thick industrial pressed glass used for car head lamps or glass insulators.
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The loveliest kitchen seen at Field and Sea, by interior designer Karin Draaijer. This image reminds me of something out of a Bovary novel or a Johannes Vermeer painting...the whispered light from the window, the dusty colours of the surfaces and simplicity of the machinery of things...the awaiting pause of something about to happen...
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The London by Original BTC
I've been noticing this lamp around lately in features and it's not as romantic as the Tom Dixon lamps above, there's something quite compelling and old-school about the juxtaposition of the masculine materials and the feminine curves of the curved chrome arm. In one of the shops in Hong Kong I was able to see Original BTC lamps for the first time in the flesh after seeing them frequently in magazines and it was quite interesting because i was surprised at the scale of some of the lamps, which were bigger than I thought they looked on paper. They certainly looked and felt very well-made and solid.
Now this one looks like it would fit right at home equally in the set of Gattaca in the home of Jerome or...I'm thinking about a poet...Auden..
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