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The Bauhaus, an art and design school founded in Germany in 1919, trained it students to work with industrial producers to manufacture affordable household objects that exemplified efficient design. Bauhaus designers found inspiration in pure geometric forms, and American designers quickly adopted this aesthetic, radically paring objects down to basic shapes that were easy to fabricate mechanically.
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Isn’t this piece fabulous? Swiss designer Mattia Bonetti created his Archetype Lamp (2013) to mimic a Head and Shoulders silhouette, and what a head turner it is. Fabricated in bronze and Murano glass in a limited edition of 8, plus 2 artist proofs.
Photographed in the Paul Kasmin Gallery in NYC.
Archetype Lamp Shown Here atop the Scuba Console Table, with the Poppy Side Chair
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When you visit the Queens Museum for any of their rotating exhibits, make sure you also stop in to see the Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass, which is an on-going, and incredibly visually stunning, not to mention (but you can see I am about to) very educational exhibit of the art glass of Louis C. Tiffany! Did you know that his first name is pronounced Louie, and not Louis? I had no idea, but now I know!
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This pop-art Vintage Coca-Cola Bottle Table Lamp with its coordination Black Shade, is a Classic, for sure.
Audiophiles, check this out! Designed by Denmark-based studio Genanvendt, the LP Table Lamp creates a soft and subdued lighting, thanks not only to the records themselves (which help moderate the glow) but also to the screen of translucent material creating a cylinder around the light bulb itself. The LP Table Lamp is available in different sizes with different numbers of LPs. Purchasing information is available at This Link.
