3 Amazing Light Resources to Brighten Your New Year

Manhattan Remix chandelier by Barovier & Toso

There's no excuse not to embrace contemporary lighting solutions to amp up the wattage in any interior design scheme. Styling has never been more exciting and fashionable, and the number of companies offering startling new designs has never been greater.

Nepher Ceiling Lamp from Barovier & Toso

We've selected three of our favorite lighting resources - each one, new to us - and wanted to showcase some of our favorites from each for you. Click on the links below for more information.

• Barovier & Toso
• Terzani
• Kundalini

 Veronese Table Lamp from Barovier & Toso

Stream Chandelier from Terzani

Mizu Pendant Lights from Terzani

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Star Burst! Smart Green Design

(Stellar scraplights, courtesy of Graypants)I was quickly walking by aisles and aisles of furniture and lighting at a furniture fair when this twisting, twinkling form rose up and caught my eye. Could it be a sculpture, a tall narrow cabinet, or a tree? Well, it could just be a little bit of everything. 

The design firm, Graypants, introduced a very exciting line of light fixtures, called the Stellar series of scraplights.  Pictured above, a star shaped floor lamp twists and turns as it rises from the floor. Spilling out in between the grooves is light from the decorative low-energy bulbs.  What makes these light fixtures so special is the material that they’re made from:  corrugated cardboard! 

(Scraplights, courtesy of Graypants)Graypants’ designer, Jonathan Junker, put it best, “Beauty can come from the most unexpected of places and that’s what we are trying to do with our scraplights…”  The Graypants team collect discarded corrugated cardboard boxes from local businesses in the Seattle, Washington area and transform it into these beautiful, fully functional light fixtures.  Used with Plumen, a low-energy bulb that lasts 8 times longer than an incandescent bulb, the scraplights offer a very green design choice that’s also easy on the eye.