Design | Wellness | Cabinetry
It’s called Stilla and it’s not cosmetics you would find a Sephora or Ulta.
Stilla is paneling in tempered glass by Joel Berman Glass Studios. It comes in 3 thicknesses, 1/4″, 3/8″ and 5/8″ in a 4″ high repeating pattern with 3-dimensional texture. The panel is 53″ w and 108″ h and can be ordered curved, notched or drilled.
I think it is gorgeous and know of many, many places I’d like to use it.
Where would you use it?
This wicked lamp is titled Deep Sea Angler Fish and is made from recycled bicycle parts, knives and utensils and other found objects. It’s massive – 4 feet wide and 5 feet long – so if you want this for your own you will need ample floor space and a large wallet.
The artist, Justin LaDoux made this as part of a larger collection called “Creatures of the Deep.” The collection was entered in the 2010 ArtPrize contest.
These recycled lamps are a tad bit different from the recycled lamps I usually write about. No recycled plastic bottles or coffee stirrers to be found from in the lighting from Classified Moto.
They use various parts like brake rotors, shocks and transmission gears from 70’s and 80’s era Japanese motor bikes in each hand-crafted lamp.
The lamp you buy may look different since Classified Moto says they make the upcycled lamps from parts on hand (but they try to consider special requests).
(Love this)
Check out the Classified Moto gallery and blog – they like to take pictures!
Do you remember the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007? Provisions began taking effect the first part of this year, with many popular incandescent reflector lamps being outlawed.
Watts are a better predictor of how hot a light bulb will be than how bright it is. Lumens tell you how much light a bulb will provide.
To make it easier to compare light bulbs, the Federal Trade Commission has designed a new label which you have probably already seen. It was required to be on all packages starting this year.
It is important to look for the ENERGY STAR on light bulb packaging, which means that they meet strict criteria set by EPA for both energy efficiency and quality. Other bulbs may be cheaper, but the tests that ENERGY STAR requires are important, and necessary for consumers to get the performance they expect.
Update: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ended the ENERGY STAR specifications for lamps and luminaires December 31, 2024.
In absence of the ENERGY STAR mark, the Federal Trade Commission’s Lighting Facts labels will continue to communicate lamp performance to consumers, including brightness, estimated yearly energy cost, life, light appearance as the expression of the correlated color temperature,
and energy used.