Some excellent product design going on over at Rich, Brilliant, Willing. Indeed, I’m guessing you need to be all three of those things to own any of their products. I think that’s the last thing I’d spend money on, lighting. Even though it’s probably one of the more important factors in making a room look good and feel comfortable, it’s so hard to justify these $1,000 lamps and fixtures. Forever Ikea.
Source Rich, Brilliant, Willing via DVDP
great pendant/ceiling light!!
To me these aren’t worth anything near a 1000 dollars. Nowadays you can get customized industrial lamps for 1/10th of the price, which I think look even better then these.
Dennis, what are customized industrial lamps and where are you getting them?
Can I suppose that Scott criticism the price of this lamp ? 😉
Because if it’s yes, we can discuss about the licence who exploding the prices like Charles Eams and his beautiful seat and all the “designed” objects selling in a closed distribution channel.
This is so pitty to design that kind of object and put this huge price… Design is definitely not for everybody !
They look like IKEA designs to me.
Most of them look simple enough that you could easily build it yourself for 46 bucks. Start with an IKEA lamp; gut the lighting hardware. Then a trip to Home Depot for bar stock and paint (and a slice of laminated wood while you’re at it), and you’re pretty much good to go… assuming that you want to spend all that time building stuff that looks like IKEA!
I actually have no clue how much they are. I just assume very expensive when the site says “if you’re interesting in purchasing, contact so-and-so”. I think that means not cheap.
I am sure a lot of these designers can justify high prices though. These aren’t mass produced items, their own costs are probably very high.
Around Christmas of 1990, I bought myself an Artemide Tolomeo desk lamp. I’d been looking for a replacement for a broken lamp I got for cheap at Target (or was it Kmart or Office Depot). All I could find was the same junk that I had bought a year and a half before — wasn’t so horrible to look at, gave good light where I needed it, but was destined for the landfill due to the poor quality of construction. So, I bought a Tolomeo. It was WAY out of my budget, around 15x the cost of the lamp I replaced.. Perhaps I’d have gone through maybe 8-10 of those lamps in the last 20 years (then tossed into our dumps and landfills, what a waste). Financially, the investment hasn’t yet matured; aesthetically and functionally, the investment paid the day I bought it. The Tolomeo shows no signs of wear, except for the nice patina developed on the reflector tongue handle.
Often premium-cost fixtures/furniture/autos/etc are unrealistic and unnecessarily inflated (as some of the above are, I think), but sometimes you get what you pay for — those producing a quality, sustainable product will get my money.
“Forever IKEA”, my reply: “Once ARTEMIDE”!
Our dumps, l
http://www.wehkamp.nl/wonen/lamp/tafellamp-wandlamp/massive-bureaulamp/C10_R0S_RA4_407761/?PRmin=10&PRmax=160&F=5,6,17,22&PI=1&SM=0
I don’t think the lamp in the last image is for sale DENNIS. I think it’s about the model objects next to it.
Nice Curtis!!
“Forever Ikea / Once Artemide!”
Dennis, TR: Yeah, the last image features their digital clock. I am not sure who designed the lamp, but either way, it is not the same as the bureaulamp in Dennis’ link and I am betting cannot be had for anywhere even near as low as $15.