research in lighting and feathers
8 Aug 2019 11:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneIn spite of years of interest in interior design blogs, and especially having gone down a rabbit hole of light and lamp design specifically in the last few years and hence regularly still seeing weird lamps that Pinterest's algorithm recommends to me, it took hanging out on Finnish Craigslist to learn that someone out there had the horrifying idea of making a lamp out of a pillow-sized blob of pink feathers and then they actually did it.
Now, the feather lamp in general is more understandable, even if one thinks it's stupid, because it echoes the shapes of other arty and vaguely postmodern lamp designs, like the crumpled paper ones, while introducing a more expensive material, which is always going to appeal to someone. The basic white or off-white quality of the feathers is essential to maintaining this likeness, and also to resembling a lamp, but by the time you reach the pink one it's a commentary on the white one rather than a commentary on some other lamp that came before it, I suppose. So the white one is already yikes from me, but as long as it's not allowed to get dusty and gross its main flaw is just that feathers block out more light than your average lampshade. And the Umage Eos (center) has an interesting textural shape when it's not turned on.
But the pink one... yikes.
Please note, however, that when I looked for more images of pink feather lamps, the related pins first turned up flamingo chandeliers, and then a whole pile of lawn flamingo crafts (eg) that I can't help but admire. Palette cleanser, if a decapitated lawn flamingo and hula hoop chandelier can be considered a cleanser at all:
Now, the feather lamp in general is more understandable, even if one thinks it's stupid, because it echoes the shapes of other arty and vaguely postmodern lamp designs, like the crumpled paper ones, while introducing a more expensive material, which is always going to appeal to someone. The basic white or off-white quality of the feathers is essential to maintaining this likeness, and also to resembling a lamp, but by the time you reach the pink one it's a commentary on the white one rather than a commentary on some other lamp that came before it, I suppose. So the white one is already yikes from me, but as long as it's not allowed to get dusty and gross its main flaw is just that feathers block out more light than your average lampshade. And the Umage Eos (center) has an interesting textural shape when it's not turned on.
But the pink one... yikes.
Please note, however, that when I looked for more images of pink feather lamps, the related pins first turned up flamingo chandeliers, and then a whole pile of lawn flamingo crafts (eg) that I can't help but admire. Palette cleanser, if a decapitated lawn flamingo and hula hoop chandelier can be considered a cleanser at all:
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