Icon Buzz - Designs & Arts

We liked these light orbs, but have less positive feelings towards the conceptually-similar outdoor lamps above— instead of being ethereal and round, they’re shaped like the sort of tree that sometimes lines paths or a road. The lamp’s name is Kanpazar. It comes in 31 and 58-inch heights and is imported from Spain. If you fell over one of the short ones, it would probably hurt.

We suppose Kanpazar lamps might be useful if you got bored one year and decided that instead of decorating your Christmas tree with lights, you would just put up one big tree-shaped lamp. But since the lamps cost close to $900 each, we recommend sticking with a fake Christmas tree and lining your garden paths with something more environmentally friendly, like real trees.

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PizzaKobra, a new table light designed for iGuzzini by Ron Arad. The light features an articulated, chrome-plated spiral that can lie in a flat coil on the ground (like a pizza) or be raised to resemble a cobra about to strike. Being chrome-plated and the light source made up of 6 white LEDs also helps to light up the corner of your favorite room. The steel/aluminum lamp with chrome finish is bit heavy and weighs 2.5kg. It includes a sensor switch, which helps to switch on off the lamp with a mere touch.

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There’s something just so right about the design of this minimal lighting fixture from Japan. While it sits there on your tabletop, it casts a dramatic shadow of numeric shapes across the surface of your desk and walls.

While I’m not sure what all the numbers mean, I like to think that it’s the solution to some as yet unsolved mathematical problem with a name like the Farbmann Conundrum or the Hunterkleiner-Dirkastan Constant. More likely, it’s just a bunch of random digits (or maybe it’s the key to understanding the upcoming season of Lost).

The Memento lamp was designed by Hiroshi Yoneya and Yumi Masuko for design collective Tonerico. At this point, it looks like it’s is only available in Japan.

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