String Theory: Four Young Designers with Fanciful Lighting Collections - Remodelista
The other day in the office we were talking about a trend we ve been noticing geometric pendant lamps with...
...bright color blocked designs reminiscent of 1960s and 70s styles and made of wire or wood frames wrapped tightly with string
We couldn’t help but remark on the similarities of their makers as well: four young European women designers, many of whom also happen to be photographers.
Serbian-born, New York–based designer (and model and photographer) Ana Kras makes Bonbon lights in a variety of colors and custom designs.
Ana Kras
A tower of earth-toned Bonbon lamps.
Kras’s lights are available on request; prices start at $1,800. (For a look at Kras’s furniture designs, see 8 Side Tables in Confident Colors.)
Kras at work on one of her hand-strung lamps, which were featured at the NYC Makers biennial at the Museum of Arts & Design in 2014.
Photograph by Jody Rogac.
Wera Jane
Another set of designs comes from Wera Jane: Lamp No.
The lamps are made of Italian thread and woven in Jane’s studio in Leipzig.
Julie Lansom
Photograph by Amandine Paulandré.
In Paris, designer and photographer Julie Lansom weaves ethereal and complex designs. (Read more at Sputnik Sweetheart: A French Designer’s Handwoven Lights.)
Lansom makes her Sputnik lamps by hand in her Paris studio, wrapping cotton thread around a notched wooden frame.
Photograph by Amandine Paulandré.
Photograph by Amandine Paulandré.
Contact her directly for more information or to order.
Hardwired: Though similar in style, Paris-based designer Elsa Randé‘s Shining lamps are made of an oak base with plastic wires, rather than string.
Elsa Rande
The Shining lamps are available in monochrome or color-blocked designs; €240 ($256).
