This time of year can be difficult to welcome with open arms. Shorter (and wetter) days, longer nights, more dark, less light. However, one perk of Fall – aside from colourful leaves and cozy scarves – is that our showroom becomes magic after 5pm.

While our lighting lines: Flos, Foscarini, Modernica, Akari, Vibia, among others, are amazing during the day … during the dark they become truly awesome. And it’s not just the lighting itself, it’s everything that falls under their glow. All of perfectly designed, constructed, upholstered, and polished pieces in our showroom shine a little more fabulous after 5pm on a crisp Fall evening.

I can’t wait to see these George Nelson Bubble Lamps shine through the checkered warehouse windows of our future showroom across the street. Get ready to glow Harjim.

Binic by Ionna Vautrin for Foscarini - photo: ionnavautrin.com

The most awesome thing happened today. I reached into my filing cabinet and stumbled upon a small, single, delicious truffle in a ziplock bag leftover from my Christmas treat stash. How this little wonder escaped my awareness for nearly three weeks, I have no idea – but am I ever glad that it did! Also great today, is my discovery of Ionna Vautrin’s website. She is the young up and coming designer behind Binic: a brand new sweet and petite lamp for Foscarini that truly makes you go Awww.

photo: ionnavautrin.com

Binic would make a great light for a hall table, bookshelf, nightstand, or anywhere you could use a little pocket of cuteness. Metropolis magazine noted the lamp’s likeness with Kenny from South Park (which made me laugh out loud), but for me … it’s also akin with the disproportionate headed robot, Marvin, from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I just want to give them both warm, encouraging hugs. Vautrin’s actual inspiration came from the wind socks and lighthouses of North Eastern France.

Kenny from South Park

Marvin from Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Binic by Ionna Vautrin for Foscarini - photo: ionnavautrin.com

I love Binic. He has loads of personality, comes in lots of great colours, and is really reasonably priced at only $262.00! Purchase it on our website, here.

Binic by Ionna Vautrin for Foscarini - photo: ionnavautrin.com

Binic by Ionna Vautrin for Foscarini

photo: ionnavautrin.com

Ionna Vautrin’s website offers many other successful and interesting product designs. Check it out, here.
Visit Binic at gabrielross.com, here.

My most favorite shoe (in my personal collection) is a strikingly gorgeous and unique leather/suede lace up high top by Diesel – think ballerina meets Rocky over London fogs in the spring.  Absolutely perfect in every way, this shoe is loved equally as a design object as it is footwear.  Diesel has recently engaged in a design collaboration with Foscarini and Moroso to produce a home collection, “Successful Living” or Diesel Lighting – an ultra cool fusion of fashion and function.  Sporting names like “Rock”, “Cage”, “Graf”, and “Tri-p”, the lighting collection references a culture of warehouse rock shows, industrial raw and vintage aesthetic with an elegance and luxury that only these two design houses could front.

Fork floor lamp

Fork floor lamp with table lamp

Cage suspension light

Cage lights, Mic and suspension

Moroso studded mirror with Cage Mic

Rock suspension light

Rock suspension light

Golden Yellow Caboche

Foscarini offers a creation that cannot merely be defined an addition to the range, but is a project with its own personality that makes it totally different from the previous transparent version. The warmth of the new colour lights up the transparency of the material – polymethylmethacrylate – creating a lamp that is even richer and more splendid and accentuating its decorative ability. Encouraged by the commercial and media success of Caboche lamp, Foscarini is ready to focus on the collection once again, with a light centred on the colour of the sphere, now a golden yellow. The brilliancy and transparency typical of the range remain unaltered, thanks to a perfectly calibrated chromatic density. The basic structure of the ring form, on which the spheres are anchored and the upper and lower screens in white satinised glass that govern the light source also remain unaltered. Unlike the transparent version with its understated richness, Caboche Golden Yellow will satisfy the transversal taste of those who love sophisticated, evident luxury. Since 2005, the year which saw the debut of Caboche in its hanging version, followed in 2006 by the floor, table, wall and ceiling versions, Foscarini has produced millions of brilliant spheres. Patricia Urquiola’s idea, inspired by a bracelet and transformed into a rich and multi-faceted lamp, immediately revealed the innovative aspect that is the basis of every successful project: a precious form and a perfect fusion of different individuality that together create the body and the luminous effect of the lamp. Light becomes the protagonist, thanks to the crown of spheres in which every single one produces a completely different image. Design by Patricia Urquiola and Eliana Gerotto.

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