Another great design from Dutch design label HUH is this ‘Not a Lamp’ light. In stead of a lamp in a box, this box is a lamp (do you get it?). You push out the pre-cut shape and the wire, fitting and lamp are in the box. And voila, you have a lamp!

Also from HUH [...]

I recently came across the beautiful work of Lucy Renshaw in a magazine and I was immediately drawn to her colour creations. This British designer works with found and recycled textiles and materials to transform reclaimed furniture and interior products. Her colourful environmentally friendly designs are quirky, unique, and functional. Lucy graduated from the well-known [...]

I am off to Paris for a few days! In this beautiful city I will be visiting the well known Maison et Objet trade show. Of course I will be doing a little shopping as well. Next Monday I am back with the latest news!
PS: the gorgeous lamp with the equally gorgeous name ‘Lampe [...]

With this lamp you can bring some colour in your home! PXL is designed by Fredrik Mattson, who has his own design studio in Sweden. Lamp PXL is manufactured by Swedish company Zero. I love the combination of bright colors and round shape! Click here for more information about this gorgeous pendant light.

Today I would like to show you the designs of Austrian label POLKA. POLKA was founded in 2004 by Monica Singer and Marie Rahm. This Vienna based design duo regards everyday life phenomena as their project’s fuel. Their aim is to discover the beauty in the banal, the extraordinary out of the ordinary. POLKA:”We show [...]

With the UnderCover lamp series, created by Philip Bro Ludvigsen for LE KLINT, you can change the pattern and color of your lamp whenever you want. The design is based on the idea of giving you total freedom and flexibility in using light as a visible and impressive part of your furnishings. In addition to [...]

Inga Sempe is a designer living in Paris, France. She graduated from ENSCI-Les Ateliers (Ecole Nationale Superieure de Creation Industrielle, Paris) in 1993. She then was a fellow at the Villa Medici, Academie de France a Rome, in 2000-01. In 2000 she opened her studio in Paris. Inga has won several awards, for example the [...]

The Concrete Light is made of partially transparent concrete. It is this unique combination of concrete and light that inspired Dutch designer Marieke Rongen to design this lampshade. By turning on the light, little spots of light appear in the concrete. The shape of the lampshade descends from traditional lampshades, but in combination with these [...]

I love the work of UK designer Kathleen Hills. Kathleen’s ceramic designs were featured at a Dutch exhibition called ‘Extremely White’, where I first saw Kathleen’s work. I have used a photo of this exhibition for one of the style files logo banners (if you click on a single post, you can see this photo [...]

Nathalie Dewez is a young designer from Brussels, Belgium. Nathalie’s favourite subject to work with is light and she uses all the potential of material to make her chandeliers, wall lights and lamps light and ethereal. Her Drop Light is simple but stunning. Winner of the “Young artists” prize of the French [...]

Anemone is a series of lamps and tables inspired by delicate lace tablecloth. Finnish designers Mari Relander and Anna Katrina Tilli combine ideas of old tradition with contemporary forms and materials. The result is stunning I think.

Together Mari and Anna Katriina have a design company called Perhonen (Butterfly in Finnish). The duo met during their [...]

When I moved into my current house, I couldn’t find the right lamp for my bathroom. After a while I didn’t even notice the bare light bulb hanging in my bathroom. Do you recognise this? Studio Ditte has found a great solution.

Light sheet is a lampshade that hangs directly on the light bulb. The lampshade [...]

Check out these lights from Brunklaus Amsterdam! Aren’t they gorgeous? Light Delight (top photo) is available in two sizes, the Shady Tree light is available in three sizes. Both designs come in various colors.

Brunklaus Amsterdam was founded in 1998 by Nicolette Brunklaus. At first she was selling her designs via mail order. But soon the [...]

Floyd Paxton is the designer of this clever lamp. Zoom can be transformed from a small compact table lamp to a spectacular chandelier. The mechanism works like an accordion, ranging between 20 and 130 cm. The result of this is not only various design possibilities, but also a wide variety of lighting effects. If the [...]

This pigeon light is so cute, don’t you think? Ed Carpenter originally designed it when he was studying product design at London’s Royal College of Art and it was exhibited at his degree show in summer 2001. Now the lamp has gone into production in a selection of bright colours with contrasting electrical flexes.

The pigeon, [...]

Ever since graduating from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2002, Dutch designer Froukje Kuiper has been playing around with geometric shapes. Her desire to create a three-dimensional design with just two-dimensional ingredients resulted in the Flower Shade lamp. The flowers are more than just decoration: they form the lamp itself, creating soft layers of light, [...]

One of the most innovative and original designs at the Dutch Design Week’s Graduation Galleries 2006 was in my opinion Sleeping Beauty by Nadine Sterk. This young designer has created a lamp that develops like a living organism. Similar to living organisms, this lamp contains all the essential “mechanisms” that will enable it to develop. [...]