Thursday, October 30, 2008

Cara Lamp is Crystal-Like LED and Silver Circuit-Board Beauty [Lighting]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/q0t0ROSLAXc/cara-lamp-is-crystal+like-led-and-silver-circuit+board-beauty

Those little interlaced blades of ice you sometimes get on the edge of ultra-cold things in wet air: that's the image that popped into my head on seeing the Cara lamp. It's by designer Andreas Ostwald and that fragile crystal-like shape is composed of interlocked flat white circuit boards with silver tracks, sprinkled with 70 white LEDs. How lighting should be to my mind: simple, elegant and stunning. Though presumably it's designer status gives it a price premium that'll place it beyond my lustful reach. [Contemporist via LuxuryLaunches]