Gold Body Painting

This beautiful and unusual lamp by J.P.Meulendijks is based on, and is a tribute to, the universal art of hand shadows and hand puppetry. Playing with light and hand shadows was and is a centuries old past time long before electric light was invented.

"BIRD IN HAND" plays with this concept: All of the hands are positioned to look like a flock of birds, flying out in circles. The shadows cast on the wall looks like birds. This results in a very expressive, dynamic and striking looking lamp, with layers of humor and poetry hidden in the design.

"BIRD IN HAND" suspended light
design: J.P.Meulendijks, 2010
material: ECOLOTEK (a durable, fully compostable material composed of natural hemp-fibers, minerals and binder, developed by J.P.Meulendijks)
bulbs: 2x E27 LED-light-bulbs
dimensions: diameter: 1000 mm. height: 450 mm.
color: white satin finish
retail price: 1270,00 euro ($1,659.74 USD)
order here

all images courtesy of Plankton
special thanks to Materialicious and Mocoloco

The Shining ceiling and wall lamps by Peter Buning use the interplay between light and shadow to create varying patterns projected on the ceiling and wall.

Above: Wonderland, the latest pattern in the Shining collection

The collection consists of 9 different styles (all shown below), each made of glass and steel and measuring 200 mm in diameter. These are presently available to purchase and links to buy are after the images.

Shining
Bombay:

Brussels:

Mailand:

Paris:

Tokyo:

Versailles:

Washington:

Wonderland:

You can purchase any of the 9 lights shown above here.
Or from Limn here.

Sha-Do

On the designers' own site, on which the lights are called it the Sha-do, come the following images of his other designs:

above: some of the designs of of Peter's Sha-Do lights.

"The concept of the SHA-DO-lamps consists of illuminating the environment through individual shadow pantomimes. The creation of the light is as important to the lamp as the design is. The lamps can be adapted to their environment because of their flexible construction and casts every location in a very special light." -- Peter Buning