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Chemistry and art are two separate words that seemingly would never have any connections, but designer Pani Jurek’s “Maria S.C. Lamp” has now brought them together. Looking like a crystal chandelier, the lamp is actually made from chemistry test tubes placed into circular plywood bands. It seems completely nice when without anything in the tubes, but the result becomes more amazing when each tube is filled with colored liquid or inserted with flowers.

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Ever felt that you’re in lack of sunshine? If so, you may have a try of Sunset Laboratories’s Solar Pills. Obviously they’re not suitable for oral use, but instead substitutes to nightlights or other kind of lamps. Whenever you need some light, “take” some pills and you can then feel reenergized, will you? Available in a wide range of solar radiation, Borabora, the Maldives, Haiti and the Bahamas, these pills should not replace natural exposure.

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Flaca, which is Spanish for skinny, is an ultra-thin foldable lamp completely laser-cut from a piece of stainless steel. It’s easy to assemble in just five steps, requiring no other tools but only your bare hands. The lamp is adjustable too, offering various heights to meet your different needs.

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While human’s love for light resulted in the invention of bulbs and lamps, Calabarte’s love for beautiful light art has brought us these amazing lamps made out of hollowed and dried skin of the gourd fruit. They seem bit of ordinary when not turned on, but really fabulous (exactly, beyond the words) as the light comes out of them. Sold? We don’t know but we all hope it is launched to the market so that we could get the best gift for the Christmas.

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Instead of leaving shadow on the floor, these unique lamps from designers Dennis Thies and Michael Rösing have left their shadows on the wall, thus to create some fantastic art in your own home!

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Use as you read, these Alphabet Furniture sets all come with several individual modules but can combine to create a chair, a lamp and a table as well, just as the words you’ve already seen.  So what do you think? Isn’t it funny to surprise your guests with the Alphabet Furniture?

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How are we going to live the future? According to Philips, in the next few years we should be using wall-mounted vats of bioluminescent bacteria as night light. That sounds bit of weird? Not exactly. Good news is that you don’t need to pay for the electricity bills any more, but instead you have to feed the bacteria with some household waste (which has been digested by other bacteria to form methane gas) so that the bacteria will provide soft green light at night.

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The stability of wood and the elasticity of spring are seemingly two completely opposite characters, however in the “Lights Up” Nakarin Kemseela has successfully combined that two characters together by designing an adjustable wood frame lampshade. The result is quite amazing, coz the lamp not only features an interesting aesthetic, but also emphasizes big convenience for users to freely adjust the quantity of light. Fabulous!

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“Super Mario”, not only as a classic game, but also as daily products like hats, cups or toys, has deeply influenced its fans for generations. Here we’d like to share some creative products inspired by Super Mario games and hopefully you’ll get some fun with them as that you get from the game. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Question marks seem to appear everywhere in our life and now they even come as furniture. Designed by Tembolat Gugkaev, the new closet not only decorates your room but also brings light to it since it is built with a lamp on one side. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Artist Kelly Lamb’s Skull Chandelier is a hanging light that comes with a special shape of a human skull. To make such a light, you first need to hang some tiny lightbulbs from the ceiling and then arrange them into the shape of a skull. Cool, and we bet the chandelier will appear to be more fantastic when it shines in the dark. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Are there any methods, except for refreshing their appearances or changing their functionalities, which can bring us new unique lamps? Nodded with yes, London designer Roger Arquer has put forward the Touch Lamp Vase that is switched on/off by touching flowers in the adjoining vase. But why could it do that? [Read the rest of this entry...]

Surprised, ordinary sugar can be used as a sustainable resource to make lamps? But of course you may need other materials when to make a Crystallized Sugar LED Lamp as that of Won Joon Lee’s. [Read the rest of this entry...]

A best combination of simplicity and functionality is the main goal of modern designs. Among numerous works created by designers all around the world, we find these LZF Lamps really deserve our introduction because they’ve achieved simple but incredible aesthetic effects with utilization of wood veneer shades. Awesome. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Ordinary lamps can never go behind desks for finding your because they’re not flat enough to do that, but fortunately you now have a new lamp that illuminate almost any spaces. It is the Looksoflat Lamp. The design is constructed of several LED bulbs and thus features a maximized simplicity. And its functionality? Don’t worry about that, as the lamp performs really well. [Read the rest of this entry...]