Design Indaba 08: South African designer Haldane Martin showed two lamps with ostrich-feather shades at the Design Indaba Expo in Cape Town last month.
Fiela Feather Arc Light (top two images) is a freestanding lamp while Fiela Feather Chandelier (below) is, you guessed it, a chandelier.
Martin explains: “Fiela Feather Lights are named after Dalene Mathews book ‘Fiela se Kind’. This heart warming South African story is set in Oudtshoorn, the same ostrich farming district where the sort white feathers that form the spherical diffuser are sourced from.”
March 21st, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Atchhoooo!
March 21st, 2008 at 9:55 pm
these are awesome! but very decadent looking. i can’t stop to think about moulin rouge!
March 22nd, 2008 at 9:29 am
lido light, always in the white trend…( see in a lot of japonese designers installations in previous posts )!!!! French designer matujewski(polish as japonese are difficult to write ) used too a lot of feather shades …
March 22nd, 2008 at 9:35 am
Haldane Martin explains his design and south african design context in 3 videoson his web site , see the first one:
http://www.haldanemartin.co.za/video_host_1.php
March 22nd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
The overall form of this lamp doesn’t look too enticing. But you’ve got to give credit to Martin for experimenting with unconventional materials.
March 22nd, 2008 at 1:25 pm
stan
“for experimenting with unconventional materials”?
I found 224 000 google images of lamps using with this type of material …
March 22nd, 2008 at 4:07 pm
So we can’t give him any credit at all then? Ha…
March 22nd, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Very haptic design by Kenya Hara, only perhaps not as well resolved. See Kami Tama by Kosuke Tsumura, lanterns and hair implants.
March 22nd, 2008 at 7:23 pm
see the work of french designer matejewski
http://www.matejewski.com/a_catal/luminaires/plume.html
March 22nd, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Zuy and Stan, can’t you just have an opinion without judgment….. This project is about poetry and beauty… Well done Martin
March 22nd, 2008 at 11:38 pm
ick. I bet they’re a pain to clean.
March 23rd, 2008 at 4:55 am
Roberto, I’m not being judgmental. I’m just voicing out my (and no one else) opinions. No offense intended at all.
March 23rd, 2008 at 8:22 am
The works of Haldane Martin could not reduce to this ostrich-feather shade… as Starck is not only kitch stools…or gun lamps.
Here he is following the major art design dutch trend…but he has his ownvocabulary on the other projects….
Haldane Martin explains his design and south african design in 3 videos on his web site , see the first one:
http://www.haldanemartin.co.za/video_host_1.php
March 24th, 2008 at 8:57 am
this project is about style.
March 25th, 2008 at 7:28 am
arco lamp in feathers… whoohoo how original and so african… not!
May 31st, 2008 at 12:31 pm
i’m sorry but style is not design…