Chandeliers

Did you know that the hitherto unknown (at least to me) Tord Boontje designs items for Habitat? I didn't, and ended up looking mighty foolish in the aforementioned retail outlet (Ikea's sleeker, classier cousin) a couple of weeks ago when confronted over the gap in my knowledge.
For my sins I had no idea who Tord was and I was grateful for the lesson. I do however know that Julie likes chandeliers. I found these examples during my daily trawl and thought I'd add them today to give her something pretty to look at.

Designed by Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn and consisting of 364 LEDs on 94 copper tubes, this Constellation Light is flexible, creative and just darned cool.

I love the idea of moulding the chandelier 'just so'.

The second chandelier is the donkey's armpits- Neues Licht's UFO Chandelier consists of strands of fibre optics arranged above a floating ring, which give off a colored glow depending on whatever light source you attach to it. You can pump sunlight into this thing from another room through a catching mirror and optical cabling- so you can have the glow of sunlight (or moonlight!) in any room in the house... a totally cool idea in my book.

Yay for designer Simon Bruenner!
via Engadget