When growers cultivate cannabis indoors, they don’t have the natural sunlight that outdoor plants get in the daytime. They need something to replace that sunlight and LED grow lights perform this task, providing artificial sunlight. These LED lights provide the exact amount of light that cannabis plants need to grow healthy and faster.
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The NY Now Winter Marketplace just wrapped for the season and it was a super fun time for me, as usual! I’m delighted to have discovered the art of artist Desiree, whose I Must Draw studio creates insanely cute and clever greeting cards like this one — which has the honor of ushering back our first Bacon Thing of The Day post in quite some time! Check out more of her adorable designs in her online shop, at This Link!
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“Often, my goal is to explore the binaries of public and private, light and shadow, and static and dynamic, by relying on the purity and inner symmetry of geometric design, and the interpretation of the cast shadows in both the sculptural installations, and the flat work.” — Anila Quayyum Agha
Suspended and lit from within, All The Flowers Are For Me (2017) by Pakistana-American artist Anila Quayyum Agha is an intricately-detailed, 1.5M square floating steel cube that casts elaborate floor-to-ceiling shadows, transforming the surrounding space of the Shirley Sherwood Gallery at London’s Kew Gardens. Entering the installation provided us with an “Oh, Wow!” moment, for sure. Continue reading All The Flowers Are For Me By Anila Quayyum Agha
Immersive Reverse Room Installation at Foscarini Showroom Featuring The Light Bulb Series (All Photos By Gail)
NYCxDESIGN is New York City’s annual showcase of all things Design-related! Must-attend events include a Saturday evening (May 19th) filled with parties hosted by dozens of SoHo showrooms, where you can get caught up on all the latest trends in furniture and lighting while eating and drinking yourself into a stupor. It’s all kinds of crazy fun. We saw a ton of cool stuff this year, but I think we had the best time at one of the evening’s early stops, the showroom of Italian Lighting experts, Foscarini, which is located on Greene Street right in the center of all the hot design action!
Continue reading Eye On Design: Foscarini’s Light Bulb Series By James Wines / SITE
Installation View Left to Right: Galaxy, Rhythm, Flare. (All Photos By Gail )
Hey, do you enjoy the work of legendary minimalist artist John McCracken? I sure do. According to the obituary published in the New York Times when McCracken passed away in 2011 at the age of 76, “he was one of the few artists affiliated with the [Minimalist] movement who did not object to its name, and who made most of his work by hand: sanding and polishing his enamel, lacquer or resin surfaces until their colors achieved a flawless and reflective perfection.” Continue reading John McCracken at David Zwirner