The largest interactive chandelier in the world at London Design Festival

Following its successful debut appearance at this year’s Salone del Mobile, Milan, designjunction london will showcase the very best in global design during the London Design Festival.

One of the most interesting new products will be a spectacular interactive LED chandelier presented by Beau McClellan Design alongside their debut lighting collection. Nomad is an impressive 5m long lighting installation made up of 200 individual components, using the studio’s signature glass mirror-coating finish, reflecting the interior by day and becoming semi-transparent at night, when illuminated by LEDs. Each of the LEDs used in this stunning piece can be individually controlled to create numerous colour effects and variations using a touch screen, ipad or iphone. The light from the LED is cleverly diffused through frosted hand-ground crystal which magnifies the light, creating warm pastel shades of colour.

The Home of a Designer

It is always interesting to have a look at the homes of famous designers and see how have they designed their own interiors. Most often there is a lot to learn from them. Such is the case with the Chicago apartment of Gensler principal and firmwide design leader Carlos Martínez - I like the design in almost all the pictures, published by Interior Design magazine. They are an example of good design work. Have a look and you may be tempted to borrow some ideas :)

Furniture as a source of light

Created by japanese designer Shinobu Koizumi, 'Light in a drawer' integrates lighting into the drawers of a small cabinet in a very ingenious way - the plastic construction of which makes illumination visible around the sides of each box even when the drawer is shut, but one can vary the degree of illumination by the degree of opening the drawers! In the day one can guess about the double function of the cabinet by its knobs - the knob on each drawer is the screw cap of an electric light bulb. (source: designboom)
Multifunctional is not a new trend in furniture design, but to use a cupboard also as a source of lighting is rare - most often lighting is used to illuminate the cupboard itslef. To illuminate the whole room and to have the ability to control the degree of ilumnation by just opening drawers is a great idea!