Nothing is better than a stunning, statement-making lighting fixture. Except when it's free!

YLighting.com is hosting an exciting giveaway of the Raimond Suspension Light by Moooi (a $1625 value) now through December 31st. Designed by a mathematics professor, the Raimond is a sphere created from a series of triangular shapes. Be the first to have it -- without spending a dime. Consider it YLighting’s décor offering for the New Year. Enter now!

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Raindrop Chandelier by Jean-Pierre Canlis

Seattle glass artist, Jean-Pierre Canlis, designed this blown-glass chandelier. The eight 'organic raindrops' hang from a 36" round metal base and are designed to be lit from the exterior, causing the drops to illuminate for a dramatic look.

Eco – Twinkle Light by Kenan Wang

Great concept light by Australian designer Kenan Wang. Crank the handle to power the battery and turn on the light. Love the idea of tying electricity output to exercise (thinking specifically of my kids' X-box).

 via www.yankodesign.com

Zwello revamps into YLighting

YLiving.com (formerly Zwello) wants to brighten things up this Fall! Save 15% on Kartell Lighting now through November 15!

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Modern Industrial Lamp

An industrial and modern design favorite, the The Lampe Gras is now available at Brook Farm General Store in Brooklyn, NY.  The store sent PC this background on the iconic piece, its history, and designer...

In 1921, a young engineer named Bernard-Albin Gras designed a series of lamps for use in offices and industrial environments. The Lampe Gras, as it came to be known, is the quintessential French architect lamp. Astounding in its simple yet beautiful design, which had neither screws nor welded joints in the basic form, it quickly gained a cult following in France.

The harbinger of an era, Lampes Gras were one of, if not the, first items created for industrial use to became desirable in interior decorating. The 1920s were a golden age of design in France, and the Lampe Gras epitomized the combination of form and function that has come to define the style of that period.

There are many lights that describe themselves as architects’ lamps, but only Lampe Gras can claim the distinction of being not only the original architect lamp, but the favorite of the godfather of modern architecture himself, Le Corbusier.

Le Corbusier was one of Bernard-Albin Gras’s most enthusiastic supporters. Championing the lamps as modern classics, he described them as a ‘type-objet’; an object reduced to its pure function. He used the lamps in his own offices, as well as in many of his most famous architectural projects all over the world.

Other well known avant-garde figures such as the designer and modernist architect, Robert Mallet-Stevens, the glamorous Art Deco furniture designer and interior decorator, Emile Jacques Ruhlmann, and the modernist artist and designer, Eileen Gray, adopted the Lampe Gras. Many important French artists, such as the cubists Sonia Delaunay, Georges Braque and Henri Matisse also used these lamps in their studios.

Production of the Gras Lamps stopped at the outbreak of the Second World War, and only now, finally, after over a year of experimentation and careful study, Lampes Gras are once again being made, by hand, in France.

Fly Fly this fall

Foscarini is unveiling Fly Fly to the US this fall.  Designed by Ludovica and Roberto Palomba, Fly was the result of a long research process and was eventually created with a polycarbonate injection molding technique that guarantees 360° illumination and creates the soft, rounded appearance of beach glass. The body of the fixture recalls high fashion millinery and organic forms like a manta ray or butterfly, with wings invoke a sensation of weightlessness. Comes in white or orange. 

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PlusT = Drama

Followers of Jane Hamley Wells' brand of high-style classic modern furniture are already familiar with the impressively sized, uniquely shaped planters from Euro3Plast's PlusT Collection. Imagine those stunning objects in lights. Designers have, and the result is illuminating...

Available for both indoor and outdoor use, PlusT Lights are sleek and white during the day. As the sun sets, turn them on for a beautiful, soft glow. Made with lightweight, durable polyethylene, these styles are available as lights or in a variety of colors and finishes.

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Hang in there

Looking for something to do with your recyclables? The Organelle Design Studio will gladly take them off of your hands -- creating lamps from recycled wood, plastic clothes hangers, and plastic bottles.

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Kevlar Lighting

To celebrate the ten year anniversary of collaboration between Marc Sadler and Foscarini, the Italian lighting manufacturer is introducing a special edition of Mite, the first product they ever designed together. Despite its imposing size, Mite is lightweight with a slender outline,  seductive and luminous body. Innovative and timeless, this new version is made from a combo of Kevlar and carbon fiber, (previously separate in the two original versions) with  fiberglass. Mite was the winner of the 2001 Compasso d’Oro, Italy’s most prestigious design award.