My friend Cait, shared this discovery with me.  This chandelier by Stuart Haygarth is made out of discarded eye glass lenses.  I love the placement of individual lenses such that together they produce the spherical, floating shape.  You can apply this same principal to create one yourself out of other materials.  Remember these other lamp diy’s?  Check them out for inspiration for how materials can come together for a new found function.

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Xavier Veilhan’s show at Versailles was spectacular. I wish I could have seen it in person. Remember the facets motif trend?

Not to downplay Xavier’s work by any means, there is always a circular relationship in fine art, fashion, interior and furniture design. I particularly like his faceted men statues. Of his project, Xavier states, “This is a project that is dynamic, classical, open and universal, aiming to establish a new bond between visitors to the place and the spaces they come into contact with.”

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I am so excited to see more and more untraditional materials and representations in ceramics. Remember the form and function post with the crumpled cups and waste basket examples?

Check out Chris’s spiral lamp. I cannot believe it is made out of one single sheet of material. It weaves so beautifully. The form reminds me of these paper cut out 3D cards.

This takes me back to the topic of indoor murals. Browse Banksy’s work and you might be inspired. I am seeing this as a great example for a continued discussion of how fine art influences interior design and vice versa.

Ann used a canopy of red-orange silk and fans to create a hovering effect. Below the fabric, six male peacocks traversed the floor. Through the opening in the fabric, a pole led up to the roof of the space where a man perched on a seat, continuously wound blue type-writer ribbon extending from a porcelain ring in the ground. When the mound would enlarge around his hand, he would cut it off and let it drop to the floor and continue the process. When the ink ribbon ball falls to the ground, it marks and splatters blue, echoing the blue in the peacocks’ presence.
What is “mattering.” Elaine Scarry writes for Literature and the Body, “The notion of consequence” of “mattering,” is nearly inseparable from the substantive face of “matter.” Or, phrased in the opposite direction, when “matter” goes from being a noun to being an active verb-when we go from saying of something that “it is matter” to saying “it matters”-then substance has tilted forward into consequence. What matters (what signifies, what has standing, what counts) has substance: mattering is the impingement of a thing’s substance on whatever surrounds it.