I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.

- Jack Kerouac, letter to Ed white, 1950

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Elizabeth Garouste and Mattia Bonetti, table lamp
BGH Editions, France, c. 1995
bronze, plastic, glass






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"Over the past two decades Elizabeth Garouste and Mattia Bonetti have become one of the most recognizable and sought after names in international design. Rejecting functionalism and standardization in favor of a marriage of primitivism and elegance, their furniture, objects and interior designs are extravagant, theatrical, baroque, surreal. Their projects include the headquarters for Christian Lacroix, perfume containers for Nina Ricci, textiles for Bouchara, the famous Barbare chair, Montpelier's tramway, and Beverly Hill's La Maison du Cigar. One of their most outrageous pieces - The Extroverted Kitchen - a gigantic bean-shaped block with integrated oven and sink covered entirely in gold is part of the permanent collection of New York's Guggenheim Museum."











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To Furnish a Room. The Old Fashioned Way.

"Save
your
selves."








































"Save
your
selves."

1. Francis Upritchard, two lamps, via Salon 94, New York
2. Unknown. F@ck, who made these? I need these in every room! Well, maybe at least one room......








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The Bubble Lamp

The Bubble Lamp:
the
longest
bubble
ever.

"George Nelson Bubble Lamp H-725: $35.00"
original price!

"George Nelson created the "Bubble Lamp" line for Howard Miller in 1947. Howard Miller continued to sell the line throughout the late 1970's after which they were discontinued. George Nelson never named the different lamp designs and they were simply given numbers by Howard Miller. A large Saucer lamp was simply sold under "Bubble Lamp H-727", a large Ball lamp was sold under "Bubble Lamp H-725".

Howard Miller sold a variety of handy accessories for the lamps including a tripod base of satin chrome or brass-finished steel, swing arms, adjustable pulley fixture, etc. Also interesting to note is that all Bubble Lamps were available with criss-cross wire pattern except models H-725, H-726, H-727 and H-728. In order to get a criss-cross wire pattern from your dealer, you simply specified the order with "CC" after the lamp number. "














buy the 2010 bubble calender, here.








"Howard Miller did not sell the lamps directly, rather outsourced the sales to "Richards Morgenthau, Inc" who handled their national sales. In the 1990's Modernica reissued the "Bubble Lamp" line and "named" each individual Bubble Lamp design, for example Saucer, Ball, Criss-Cross, etc. The image on the top right was created by George Nelson Associates and was printed on most sales brochures of the Bubble lamps."

"Junk is the rusty, lovely, brilliant symbol of the dying years of your time.

Junk is your ultimate landscape." - George Nelson

bubble in production!

(via modernica
blog here)

waiting patiently to be sold.

Modernica store today,
on Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles.
criss cross!












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Atelir Lamp...

"Made in California
Gabriel Abraham"

go to Atelier here.









Taken from La Times, here
by David Keeps.

"Living in a historic R.M. Schindler apartment in Los Angeles may be architecturally desirable, but for designer Gabriel Abraham, it did have one drawback: "The walls and ceiling were made of plywood, so it was very hard to install lighting fixtures." Abraham found inspiration in a photograph of the Potence lamp that French modernist architect Jean Prouve designed in 1950 for his La Maison Tropicale, a prefab metal house design erected in the Congo. The Potence, which is nearly 7 feet long, has been reissued by Vitra and sells for $1,560.

Working on a more modest budget, Abraham crafted his own, smaller version of the wall-mounted swiveling lamp, shown in the Schindler apartment above.

"Friends got to like it, so I started to make them as gifts and it caught on," Abraham says.

Now he produces small quantities in Los Angeles. The bent-steel lamps are available in black, white, gray and a natural oil-rubbed finish with 3- or 4-foot arms ($375 and $450). He also builds custom sizes.








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