https://www.scottlefton.com/pitcher-plant-five-head-lamp-fs.htm
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This lamp is based on the shapes of pitcher plants. The lamp heads and their mechanisms are made of stained glass, red bronze, phosphor bronze, brass, and copper. The lamp body is made of brass and mahogany. Most of the fastener hardware is stainless steel. Each of the five heads is individually height adjustable.
The curved glass sections were formed by slumping sheets of stained glass over custom refractory forms in a furnace, and then cutting the glass pieces to shape on a glass-cutting bandsaw adapted to cut in 3D. The glass pieces were joined with standard stained glass assembly techniques using copper foil and solder.
Some of the metal parts were cast from 3D printed waxes, and some were machined with a CNC milling machine. The articulated main stems and joints of the lamp heads are hollow so that electrical wires can safely pass through them. All of the metal parts plus the assembled lampshades were copper plated for an even base color and then patinated. The overall height of the lamp is about 63 inches.
Each lamp head is lit with a 60W equivalent candelabra base LED bulb and with a 16 segment RGBW Neopixel LED ring. The main bulbs and the LED rings are separately controlled both through a wireless remote and through a button on the top of the lamp's central hub.
The images shown here represent four years of research, design, and fabrication.
It's my favourite of the modernist movements and needs to come back. Natural motifs plus a focus on decommodified artisan craftsmanship is so much more interesting than any cityscape in the west. It's the thing that links William Morris to what Soviet art almost became. A building like Barcelona's Palau de la Musica is a cathedral to nature: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/22_11_01_Palau_DSCF2611_52502512616_cc1e7db845_k.jpg
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