Nordic Cool 2013 Invigorates Washington, DC!
The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., is in a refreshing state of mind these days, and not just because the winter temps have been on the brisk side lately. The Nordic Cool 2013 festival is...
View ArticleThe Next Wave of Industrial Design Innovation
It’s no secret there’s a glut of talent in Washington, D.C., and we’re not talking politics here! There’s design vision galore, as is evidenced by “The Next Wave Exhibition: Industrial Design...
View ArticleIndustry Gallery and Shredded Ware at Design Days Dubai
Design Days Dubai is in full swing and our friends at Industry Gallery are sponsoring a workshop tomorrow morning at 11 a.m. local time so I thought this would make a terrific #TravelTuesday post. Ivo...
View ArticleWilliam Klein at MAD: the Truth is Under the Makeup!
The Museum of Arts and Design in NYC is on a fashion kick with its latest film series “Without Compromise: The Cinema of William Klein,” and I made my way to Columbus Circle on March 1st to see the...
View ArticleLight as Art Proves the Medium’s Versatility
I’d like to thank The Guardian for putting the Light Show exhibition at Hayward Gallery in London, England, on my radar. The retrospective of artists of the past 50 years for whom light is their medium...
View ArticleThe Sonora Aero Club Imagined and Illustrated
I came across this article by John Foster on Design Observer’s blog “Observatory” about the notebooks of Charles August Albert Dellschau filled with fantastical double-sided watercolor drawings and...
View ArticleGaetano Pesce Debuts His Art in New York City
Fred Torres Collaborations is featuring an exhibition by visionary architect, designer and artist Gaetano Pesce, and I thought it would be a good time to give the avant-garde design visionary a...
View ArticleNYC Becomes Design Central & Global Lighting’s in the Thick of It!
As ICFF (the International Contemporary Furniture Fair) turns 25, New York City has finally been given an official designation as the world’s design capital for 12 days in May each year. NYCxDesign...
View ArticleOn Our Radar: Shining a Light on Color at Design Miami/
One of my favorite British gallerists is participating in Design Miami/Basel this year, and she’s making a bright statement. Libby Sellers is using Chromophobia, a book by David Batchelor, as the...
View ArticleBrotherly Love: The Campanas First Solo Show in New York City!
If you’re like me, you might be baffled to learn that Fernando and Humberto Campana are just now enjoying their first solo exhibition in the United States! I’ve been watching the Brazilian brothers...
View ArticleThought-Provoking Furniture Design Found at “Look Mum, No Hands”
Designers are often influenced and inspired by a variety of objet d’art,: fashion, architecture, interior and furniture design. But it’s not often that a designer actually works in each of those...
View ArticleZaha Hadid and Swarovski Team Up For Architectural Fireworks
Just in time for the fireworks of the Fourth of July, I bring you a little bling courtesy of starchitect Zaha Hadid! In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of Hadid’s first major built design,...
View ArticleMother Nature Inspires Mesmerizing Art Pieces
Here at Global Lighting, we are enthralled by all forms of art—sculpture to architecture, painting to product design. But we find ourselves particularly drawn to art inspired by nature. Enter Uruguay...
View ArticleCloudy days ahead in Chicago—and we can’t wait!
Overcast days getting you down? Never fear—we’ve found the in-real-life Cloud 9, and this chandelier will light up your life! CLOUD CEILING at Chicago’s Progress Bar, the newly opened Boystown...
View ArticleWhat’s Blue and White and Always In Style?
For more than a 1,000 years, blue and white has dominated the ceramics scene. In 9th- century Mesopotamia, white clay was decorated with cobalt pigment. The look was, over years and generations,...
View ArticleInterior Design Magazine Is the Best of Contemporary Design
The staff at Interior Design magazine has been busy! In July editors released a new hardcover coffee table book—Best of Residential Architecture & Design—featuring a collection of choice...
View ArticleLights Fantastic in Nashville
LIGHT is illuminating Nashville’s Cheekwood—a 1932 limestone mansion and formal gardens designed by architect Bryant Fleming, and opened to the public as a botanical garden and art museum in 1960....
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Edison
Here at Global Lighting, we are big fans of Thomas Edison, for obvious reasons. But beyond his brilliant contributions to the world of lighting and communication of sound via phonograph and...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Ifeanyi Oganwu
On this Throwback Thursday, we say “Congrats!” to London-based artist Ifeanyi Oganwu. In New York magazine’s recent Global Design issue, Oganwu is named as one of the “Twenty-One Under Thirty-Five,”...
View ArticleDesign Miami/ Gets Underway
Design Miami/ 2013 is set to open! Today, the press get a preview of the annual December art fair taking place in Miami, Florida (a sister show takes place in Basel, Switzerland each June), where...
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