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I spent a lot of time today getting the house ready for our guests (friends staying Friday and then family staying for a few days starting on Saturday!). I love how nice and organized and clean the house is. This lamp is in our living room. It was a wedding gift from our friend Darrin/Durwood. We had registered for it at Pier 1. I love the lamp shade and how well the design shows when the light is on.
Along the Tammany Trace, near Abita Springs, Louisiana.
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Translucent Corian lampshade. Use of CNC and thermoforming technology.
Design by Alex Vitet
Fabrication by Sterling Surfaces
black stretch twill
actually i wanted a pleated skirt, but it made me look fat so i sewed on a band at the hem to create a balloon like effect, but my mom named it lampshade :)
2008
Lamp redo! Pattern pieces from Anna Maria's Daydreams Lampshade/mobile from her book Handmade Beginnings. Read all about it here.
Kettle's Yard
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Kettle's Yard House
Between 1958 and 1973 Kettle's Yard was the home of Jim and Helen Ede. In the 1920s and 30s Jim had been a curator at the Tate Gallery in London. Thanks to his friendships with artists and other like-minded people, over the years he gathered a remarkable collection, including paintings by Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Alfred Wallis, Christopher Wood, David Jones and Joan Miro, as well as sculptures by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Constantin Brancusi, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth.
At Kettle's Yard Jim carefully positioned these artworks alongside furniture, glass, ceramics and natural objects, with the aim of creating a harmonic whole. His vision was of a place that should not be
"an art gallery or museum, nor ... simply a collection of works of art reflecting my taste or the taste of a given period. It is, rather, a continuing way of life from these last fifty years, in which stray objects, stones, glass, pictures, sculpture, in light and in space, have been used to make manifest the underlying stability."
Kettle's Yard was originally conceived with students in mind. Jim kept 'open house' every afternoon of term, personally guiding visitors around his home. In 1966 he gave the house and its contents to the University of Cambridge. In 1970, three years before the Edes retired to Edinburgh, the house was extended, and an exhibition gallery added.
Today each afternoon (apart from Mondays) visitors can ring the bell and ask to look around.
"Breezes" by Lucy Gibbons Morse. Copyrighted by Mrs. Morse 1921. Houghton Mifflin Company.
According to the foreward by Amy Lowell, this Cape Cod grandmother sold lampshades with these silhouettes for years, before friends convinced her to publish them in a book form with her stories. I can just imagine her making up the stories over the years for her grandchildren, and perhaps her children. They are so lyrical, I have "shelved" the book in my poetry section.
Translucent Corian lampshade. Use of CNC and thermoforming technology.
Design by Alex Vitet
Fabrication by Sterling Surfaces
This video gives you an idea of the sort of habitat these lampshade weavers are found in and how to spot them before showing the pair in the photograph after it.
This other video better shows the dimensionality of a couple of lampshade webs with spiders in them.
30 Arachtober 2024
Thorell's Lampshade Weaver, Hypochilus thorelli
Tellico Plains, TN