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Friday, 31 October 2008

Picture Frame Wall Light

Have you ever looked at your hallway or staircase and thought how boring and dark it looks? Want that extra personal touch to your home? Well Light IQ now have these new light fitting in stock and ready for you to take home today.

Light is both diffused via the acrylic front and via a slot in the lower side of the fitting to provide a soft wash of light on the wall. The decorative Picture Frame wall light is also an energy efficient light source due to the compact fluorescent lamp it uses.

Perfect for a 12 x 18 inch photograph, let this wall light illuminate your life. Contact us on 0208 749 1900 to order yours today.

Gemma Jephcott

posted by Light IQ @ Friday, October 31, 2008  

Friday, 24 October 2008

Swarm Chandelier

Zaha Hadid is a well known architect and design but she told herself to a whole new level in creating the 'swarm chandelier' for the Established & Sons. It was lovingly created by suspending 16,000 black crystals by hand on individual wires.

Although it's not strictly speaking a chandelier, as it does not have an internal light source. The black crystals were designed to interpret the concept of 'a swarm of many birds or insects that behave as a unity entity, moving together as a single ever-changing organic form.' V&A


This masterpiece of conceptual or theoretical exploration was exhibited at the V & A museum until the end of the year.

Gemma

posted by Light IQ @ Friday, October 24, 2008  

Friday, 17 October 2008

Take a look at the picture below, what do you see within it?


Holograms and light work simultaneously together to hypnotise the human brain into believing they are seeing something which isn't there. The work is about the feeling of tangible experience and our elemental responses to movement and colour. These basic responses carry with them a complex notion of relative judgments. The way light moves over a surface or a breeze travels through a cornfield, the sudden spasm of a deadly fish or the hypnotic coil of a snake. These are the most elementary and primitive of responses.


"I employ spatial illusion in which an illuminated, coloured array pushes forward into space above a contrasting background of ambiguous depth. In previous work the array was comprised of semi-mobile elements of differing lengths. This was set in motion by a series pulses. The perceptual uncertainty was enhanced by the differential rates of movement within the array." Andrew Ryder

Light Assemblages exhibition by Andrew Ryder is being held at Gallery 286 on Earls Court road until October 28th. If you have been mesmerised by these pictures like we have at Light IQ Ltd why not explore this further.

Gemma


posted by Light IQ @ Friday, October 17, 2008  

Friday, 10 October 2008

Lullaby Baby

Lull Flower Light by Varmo Kollstad Buene

Winter is closing in and the days are getting shorter - feeling a bit of a lull?

Awaken your senses with this award-winning conceptual light from GI Form. It opens and closes like a flower softly dimming the light before fading out at night, then cracking open along with the dawn gradually increasing the light intensity to give the user a more comfortable awakening.

Falling asleep? Its unique interchangeable shape has a calm and soothing appearance when it's closed. When it opens its energetic and bright. The motion of the petals is controlled by a small motor, and the lamp has a time-adjustable dimmer. It is to be set individually for each users recommended cycle of sleep so you can look forward to your next wake-up call.

Now there's a reason to hibernate.



Tash Hamilton Dick

posted by Light IQ @ Friday, October 10, 2008  

Friday, 3 October 2008

Magic in Motion

Dervish Ceiling Light by Phillippe Malouin

Another English summer is upon us. Stuffy trains, smelly tubes and so much rain - sweating is on the up.

Turn down the heat with this ceiling/fan duo. The lamp uses its whimsical feature to direct light, from a tube of light to a cone, to an open light source. The contraption, with its spinning, then produces a rather considerable amount of wind.

Too cool for school? The modern-cutting-edge design married with high-tech materials will leave you spinning for more.

Now that's something I'm a fan of.


Natasha Hamilton Dick

posted by Light IQ @ Friday, October 03, 2008  

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