Shanghai designer Zhili Liu has designed a series of lighting inspired by birds.
Top image: Sparrow. Above: Nightingale.
Called Bird, the bone china sockets hold each bulb at an angle.
Above: Doves
They can be hung in clusters, attached to a perch or displayed with a shade that represents the bird’s cage.
Here’s some more information from Liu:
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Bird lamps (design 2006, prototyping 2009)
Angled standard sockets.
The cheap bakelite bulb sockets have been widely used in China, from workshops to living rooms for over 4 decades without any change. With a bulb and some wire, it makes a practical and reliable pendant lamp for less than 10 RMB (about 75 pence).
The bird lamps were designed to inherit the simplicity of the bakelite sockets but at the same time offer the user some more room for imagination – only by adding a little angle.
The sockets is made of bone china, which is translucent, heat proof and electrically safe. Work with incandescent, CFLs or LED bulbs with a standard E-27 base.
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Posted by Rose Etherington
November 10th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
it so beautiful! i can hear the chirp!
November 10th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Simple and nice, proud of Zhili as a Chinese designer myself
November 10th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
a perversion with incandescent, great design with led….
November 10th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
like it.
November 10th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
oh yeah
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November 10th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
How adorable, I’ve always wondered what it would look like if birds on a telephone wire lit up with electric energy.
November 10th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
that’s a very subtle extrapolation of images with birds that we see daily. very romantic, too
November 10th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Great stuff.
November 10th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Really poetic.
I would love to have one!!!
November 10th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Beautiful! My favorite is the one with the birds perched on a line.
November 10th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
nice1
November 10th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
It’s similar to a Japanese brand 100% lamp.
anyway, it’s beautiful.
http://100perstore.com/?pid=11524981
November 10th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
lol! absolutely genious……
no comments
November 10th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
it´s very Hithcook!!!!
November 10th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
It looks really nice, but the light quality is off course very bad and unpleasant. no matter which light bulb you’ll be using
November 10th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
cute + elegant.
November 10th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
I love those tables !
November 10th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
Interesting that such a naft design would get so many responses here while meaningful architectural designs are ignored. GE just announced they are no longer making incandescent bulbs.
November 11th, 2009 at 4:06 am
simple yet elegant. like the work in first picture, imagining birds chirping.
November 11th, 2009 at 6:22 am
great! Can we find those in Europe ?
November 11th, 2009 at 6:42 am
Shanghai designer rocks!!
November 11th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Yeah! Pure synthesis, pure style! Beautiful!
November 11th, 2009 at 8:57 am
Actually, I think the 2 tables at the last pic look more promising than the bulbs….they look absolutely elegant.
Like what Tiffany has mentioned, the upright bulbs do present some inherent functional problems concerning throw of light as it is directed upwards instead of downwards where the light is required. Probably will be good for mood lighting rather than for utilitarian purpose.
November 11th, 2009 at 10:28 am
好讚的設計, 我被感動到了!
November 11th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
“Nightingale” is my best one
November 11th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
DUDE,
VERY CUTE
November 11th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Love it . I would like one in my flat
November 11th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
I LOVE these, especially the first. It’s like I can actually hear them chirping. I’d love to hang it above a dining room table.
November 11th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
cute, but i really wanna know; who made that fantastic table??
November 11th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Today I passed a park where pidgeons pirched in their hundreds on a football pitch, along the goal bar at both ends.
I really like the horizontal light, I love the serenity it evokes.
November 12th, 2009 at 1:46 am
nice! finally see it on dezeen!
November 12th, 2009 at 8:43 am
the cute cute lamp was made by an ingo maurer ’s lover …
the no signed table by a nosigner’s lover…
November 12th, 2009 at 8:49 am
@ miguel
See swiss trio ZMIK in Basel / Switzerland to see a very Hithcook work
November 12th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
A fantastic achievement imparting so much character and charm into an object as mundane as the lightbulb.
Sparrow’s the best for my money.
November 12th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
this is the begining…
November 13th, 2009 at 5:20 am
hehehehe… it does look like birds.. very chic and whimsical
November 14th, 2009 at 8:08 am
刘知礼
November 15th, 2009 at 12:47 am
Smart design. The designer successfully captured the essence of the ‘birds on a wire’.
November 15th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Liu, love your work! Congratulations!
(Prof Z is playing smart again
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