Do you love lamps? Are you creative and trying to reuse what should end up in the trash? Here are some ideas created by some illustrious designers to recycle objects turning them into original lights
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himLove them lamps ? Are you creative and trying to reuse what should end up in the trash? Here are some ideas created by some illustrious designers for recycle items like old umbrellas (source here) egg cartons, fluorescent tubes, ballpoint pens and plastic spoons, transforming them into original “illuminations".
Lights from egg cartons
The idea comes from Esprit Cabane. What is needed to make them is a pair of scissors and egg cartons. Just cut out the cardboard individually and insert it into the LED lights (better this type of light bulbs, which heat up less and avoid burning the cardboard!). The effect it returns is very welcoming and warm.
Chandelier with fluorescent tubes
Conceived by Castor Canadensis, this realization exploits the fluorescent tubes destined for the bin, binding them together to form a cylindrical structure, containing an energy saving lamp.
Chiquita Banana Chandelier
Who would have thought of hanging a “Banana Chiquita” chandelier from their ceiling? To designer Anneke Jacobs. You need a couple of dozen cartons of bananas to cut out and compose to your liking. It may not be elegant but it is certainly original.
Lamps… in a bottle!
How to transform the very common wine bottles into elegant hanging lamps? Made by Khrysalis, each bottle contains a frosted bulb with a flickering light, similar to the flapping of the wings of a butterfly about to leave the chrysalis, as the name suggests.
Light from water bottles
Plastic bottles are a real plague on earth. Present in the streets, in the meadows, in the sea and river waters due to the neglect of people, the bottles have been reused by Stuart Haygarth to create a beautiful chandelier but at the same time useful for getting rid of this waste that is as uncomfortable as it is numerous.
Table lamp with gold toys
To make old toys a piece of furniture, Ryan McElhinney he thought of gluing robots, toy soldiers and the like together by covering them with a gold polyurethane paint. Result? The base of a lamp!
Chandelier ballpoint pen
La Volivik Lamp realized by enPieza it is built almost entirely with Bic ballpoint pens strung on circular shapes. Do you find it less elegant than a crystal chandelier?
Vespa Lamp
Relive the myth of the Vespa in your own home in the form of a lamp? Lamponi's Lamp did it by creating an exclusive object from the handlebar of the beloved Vespa!
The cocktail umbrellas ...
The colorful umbrellas that we find on canapes and co. during our aperitifs, they became a beautiful chandelier, awarded by the Rhode Island School of Design. Covered with a protective paint and a fireproof spray, the umbrellas, with their liberty style, will make your rooms cheerful and lively, ready to welcome your friends for a homemade happy hour!
And finally, the plastic coffee spoons!
These banal strips of transparent plastic have become, thanks to the inspiration of True Study, a very elegant chandelier, worthy of the most famous salons… Impossible to realize that it is plastic, until you look at it from very close! Seeing is believing…
Francesca Mancuso
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