Extraodinary Lamps by Maurizio Lamponi

Would you like to have extraodinary lighting in your house? Sounds interesting, doesn’t it? Italian designer Maurizio Lamponi Leopardi creates rather unusual lamps, which can even struck your imagination and make your neighbours envy. These lamps, which look like different household appliances, planes or parts of a motorcycle may become an essential part of a modern interior.

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Maurizio Lamponi considers such lamps suitable for home, as they remind the objects of everyday life and make it peculiar at the same time. Every lamp is unique, the designer doesn’t make copies, every model is a work of art, which is the only one of its kind in the world.

This Italian artist uses genuine old things to create unusual and stylish lamps. His imagination doesn’t have any borders and his ideas are transformed into funny table lamps, which can decorate and light your room at the same time. So, it’s quite functional to have such extraodinary sources of light.

The Lamponi’s Vespa Lamps represent his collection, devoted to motorcycles. The parts of old scooters were used to create unique lamps. For example, steering handles are borrowed from the scooter Vespa.
It takes 20-30 days to create one lamp. It depends on constituent parts.

His original approach to inventing new models of lamps and his choice of material doesn’t leave anybody indifferent as well as the price for designer lamps in a form of a kettle, an iron, a plane or a motorcycle. The starting point is €1100. So, his works of art are not for everybody, but novelty and originality are reflected by cost.

How to Choose the Best Lamp for Your Child?

Making a room for your child, you will inevitably face a problem of choosing the lighting devices: now there are a lot of them in shops, and the majority of them look bright, unusual and beautiful. But which one to choose? The model which suits the style of the children’s room, certainly, is necessary to you, but, the main thing, is that children’s lamp should be convenient and safe.

Choosing lamps for children you should pay attention to many things: safety, ecological cleanliness of materials — the guaranteed absence of harmful substances.That’s why try to find lamps not only of interesting forms, but of a good quality. When buying lamps, take into account a manufacturer and applied certificates.

The light of a children’s room, where lives a baby should be quiet, soft,without bright contrast combinations. But pastel general background rare color spots, which can be created by children’s lamps in a form of large toys. They will fill a room with warm soft light (yellow, light orange, pale-green, blue), and entertain the child.

There are a lot of lamps in the form of animals, presented in shops. The materials, from which they are made are the follwing: cardboard, wood , colorful plastic or glass. The form can be the most different: a flat figures in the form of a cat, an elephant, a pig, a dog with a bulb, twisted in the center. The design of such lamps is rather diverse and your child will certainly estimate them. These lamps can be put on a chest of drawers, on a shelf or on a window sill.
When your children grow they would be happy to have lamps in a form of cartoons’ heroes, lamps, reflecting their hobbies.

The cheerful mood in a children’s room can be created by means of the several plastic lighting balls, fixed at regulated pendants. Such lamps will serve longer than standard models, and they are universal, that’s why you can use them in a room of a teenager.

Unusual Table Lamps

Today we will have a look at two very beautiful and unusual table lamps. The first lamp is called Coral Table Lamp that is produced by Cal Lighting. It is really a stunning and innovative table lamp.
I have no doubts that this new table lamp will face a huge interest from the customers soon, because this table lamp fits well both contemporary and classic interior designs. This lamp will became a real hit between many Interior Designers, especially if the table lamps will be available in many different colours.

This very table lamp is a real handmade item, and it is not very cheap. But it will definitely be cherished in any home. This stunning table lamp is one of a few innovative releases for 2009. It is a product that will fit well both contemporary and classic design schemes in the interior.

The other table lamp that I want to discuss with you is called Banker’s Lamp with Honey Glass Shade that is produced by Kichler. It is a real exclusive table lamp! I have to admit that this table lamp is a perfect companion for any desk or table. This is a classic but yet funky Honey Shade version of the popular Banker’s Lamp that will add style to any contemporary study or office.

The table lamp is finished in solid hand waxed brass and glass and not a cheap imitation version. Such table lamps are handmade, and they worth every penny! These table lamps are made in England using 15 years of experience designing sourcing and building and extending the range. Every table lamp is carefully assembled to re-create luminaires from the heyday of early electric lighting. The design of the lamp is between the late Victorian and Edwardian era.
Unusual Table Lamps