Artists Studio Job will exhibit lamps suspended from bronze models of a crane and a wrecking ball at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London later this week.
The pieces were commissioned by the gallery and will be shown alongside Studio Job’s new furniture from the Industry Series (see our earlier story).
The work will be on show 20 March – 8 May 2010.
See all our stories about Studio Job in our special category.
Here are some more details from Carpenters Workshop Gallery:
Studio Job
Crane Lamp
2010
Bronze, light fittings
H 163 L 162 D 39 cm
Edition of 6 + 1 AP
Specially designed for the gallery, Crane Lamp is a floor-standing bronze structure. An enforced cord runs through the core to a hanging light and shade. Indicative of Studio Job’s fine attention to detail, small bulbs light the boom point from which the jib hangs. An ancient invention, the crane has a long history of industrial use. Here, it has been miniaturized into an ornamental design piece.
Wrecking Ball Lamp
2010
Bronze, light fittings
H 60 L 64.5 D 29 cm
Edition of 6 + 1 AP
Exclusive to the Carpenters Workshop Gallery, the newly designed Wrecking Ball Lamp, cast from solid bronze, further explores the theme of industry. The lamp showcases the subtle humour and attention to detail that defines Studio Job’s design ethos.
March 18th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
narative design has sort of lost its speaking power.
its getting a bit boring no?
b
March 18th, 2010 at 5:49 pm
Brilliant! I want one! I want one!
The crane as a visual of industry – creation and destruction – is a powerful symbol that Studio Job renders as both beautiful and slightly…nostalgic perhaps? And talk about funtional! The two points of light would illuminate a space nicely.
March 18th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
want one
March 18th, 2010 at 7:16 pm
This is uterly stupid !
March 18th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Brilliant! i want one and i want it now!
funny, always wanted to make one myself, just not time and space sadly.
March 18th, 2010 at 11:47 pm
Silly.
March 19th, 2010 at 8:06 am
Amazing! I love Studio Job!
March 19th, 2010 at 9:19 am
now we can wait for the electricity pylon….
March 19th, 2010 at 9:41 am
I’m sure banker’s will want one.
March 19th, 2010 at 9:42 am
this is neither stupid neither brilliant, beating your head against the wall would be the finest way to define it i guess
March 19th, 2010 at 9:43 am
(In the end it works but it doesn’t mean it is good! lol)
March 19th, 2010 at 2:10 pm
Check the price first.
March 19th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
These designs seem to be capricious, arbitrary and -of course, funny and pleasant. The question is why.
March 19th, 2010 at 11:41 pm
lighting always transends into a mixture of sculpture and functionality but all i’m seeing here is sculpture or someones toy sprayed black with a light bulb attached.
March 20th, 2010 at 6:55 pm
First impression is ‘I want’ but then you imagine how it would look next to the bed or where ever. Probably get relegated to the kids room within weeks
March 22nd, 2010 at 9:40 am
Making refrence to William pharrell tank chair, everyone on dezeen reprimanded this young man for his venture into the design industry.
But here we have designers doing this crap lights, this design is not functional and is a total failure, so much trouble and construction just to light a bulb.
What a waste !!!!!!
http://www.dezeen.com/2010/03/16/the-tank-by-pharrell-williams/
March 22nd, 2010 at 12:35 pm
This cannot be studio Job!!!
March 25th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
To those with negative comments: c’mon – where’s your SOH? Lighten up! (did you see what I did then?)
March 25th, 2010 at 6:13 pm
O dear! Now I was exhausted with this type of narrative design 3 years ago, and now its all seeming very tired and tryhard! I mean , really, we have seen an enormous horse as a lamp, which hit its moment (now well gone!) and put a momentory smile on our faces, and here we have large industrial models as, guess what, lamps again. I think designers need to try a little harder than this and to perhaps give up the ghost on the quirky Dutch design decade, that really is now behind us. This type of over indulgent ‘design’ just isn’t funny (or art) any more.
March 27th, 2010 at 8:36 am
with a little color and an adequate material will be a nice lamp in a KID’s room :D
April 5th, 2010 at 11:31 am
Putting the “deep” conceptual story aside, I think these are rather nice. The nostalgic, “shadow puppet play” like feel is great, especially the way it comes back in the windows. It has a pleasant softness to it, even if the materials are the exact opposite. It’s a shame the bulb isn’t covered, I think these lights will be quite blinding in the dark, which kinda makes it lose alot of functionality. Would be great having it on the desk and doing some drawings, with an industrial machine setting a working theme.
April 6th, 2010 at 1:15 am
I was wondering if when you talk to a college counselor and tell them you want to major in design if they give you an option to minor in “Being a bitch” because that’s all too many of the “designers” here do. If the entire world were to be designed with nothing more then the immediate function of a piece what an ugly, drab world this would be. I like a little wonder in my life. If you want utilitarian, design toilet paper because that’s all your shit narrow focus mind deserves.