I love minimalist modernism.  My current apartment is the most confrontationally stark place I’ve lived.  It gives the eye very few opportunities to escape the clean scheme.  It’s not a place where cool new design (stuff from Moss) just substitutes classically modeled objects (stuff from Pottery Barn and Anthropologie).  It’s structurally, fundamentally minimal, and I get a lot of shit for it.

The bold, dynamic Pipette Lamps would be at home here, defining emtpy space with their Giacometti humanism and uncompromising economy of decorative detail.  Smith and Linder‘s Pipette is humbly made of bent electrical conduit, fiber optics, and LEDs, but it’s lavishly luxurious.  The lamp’s luxury comes from confidently asserting its scale rather than by boasting costly components or expensive handicraft.  Atmosphere is the Pipette’s luxury, not something conventionally measurable and commodified.

Definitely check out more about the Pipette Lamps as well as more excellent work by designers Lisa Smith and Caroline Linder.

Pipette Lamps have been shown at M+D+F at Design Within Reach and The Promise of This Moment.

Tags: Caroline Linder, design, Lisa Smith