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Jonathan Browning’s pure bronze fixtures are informed by early 20th-century French industrial and decorative design, and are cast to exacting standards at the same foundry that produces period metalwork for the New York Public Library. Browning embellishes faceted, hammered and fluted surfaces; shades are hand-turned on a lathe from bronze stock, chain links are hand-cut and polished, and all sconces and chandeliers are triple-plated in nickel or silver. The Garonne chandelier pictured balances six hooded candles in hammered cones on a silvered strap. (via Elements of Living)

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CX Design

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She, Monica Missio, was a painter and he, Richard Cleves, had worked in clothing production long enough to know how to run any business. After a few false starts (ceramics, resin picture frames), Missio discovered a connection to a Murano glass studio specializing in scavo, a technique in which hot glass is dipped into a mix of minerals, ash and sand for a freshly unearthed look. Missio developed the medium into exotically shaped lanterns whose glow would be as welcome in a casbah as it would in Miami’s Wishbone Restaurant, where Todd Oldham hung dozens above the dining floor. (via Elements of Living)

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J Schatz

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A restless Jim Schatz closed his basement gallery in San Francisco and moved to New York to pursue his own art, or rather, his egg. He launched J Schatz to produce the Egg Lamps and Egg Bird Feeder, musings on the life-giving form. Schatz’s ceramic table lamps come in bright glossy colors or crackled glazes; his Egg Nightlights with pinhole piercings throw squiggles of filament across a darkened room; and his Stem lamps are like opaque jumbo wine glasses. Lately, the designer’s got his mind on the cylinder. It’s like he’s leaving the nest. (via Elements of Living)

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Gus* Furniture

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The name might suggest a lumbering old fogey, but the British company Gus* Furniture designs and produces ultra modern lighting. These freestanding and ceiling-suspended pieces are encased in light-diffusing plastic, which transform the geometrc forms into glowing monoliths with a flick of the switch. Industrial-strength touches lend a bit of muscularity to the light-softened shapes. (via Elements of Living)

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Ochre

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Students Harriet Maxwell Macdonald and Joanna Bibby launched Ochre in 1996 at the 100% Design show in London. The company’s offbeat aesthetic allies unusual materials like chainmail, saddle leather, horn, silk, crystal and steel. "We follow our instincts and design things we’d like to have in our own homes," Macdonald says of the unexpected combinations. In typically idiosyncratic fashion, the Coco Vertical wall light comprises hedgehodge-like strips of coconut shells enveloping a 60-watt bulb. (via Elements of Living)

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David Trubridge

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After earning a degree in naval architecture, David Trubridge abruptly changed course, teaching himself furniture-making. He then interrupted a budding, award-winning career when he closed shop and took the family to sea (he funded their adventure by coming ashore occasionally to build someone a house full of furniture). Now settled in New Zealand, Trubridge seeks to erase distinctions between art and craft with high-style, low-impact designs that exhibit an elemental simplicity. The current collection of pendant lamps cast latticework patterns of shadow through short lengths of riveted hoop pine. (via Elements of Living)

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Serien Lighting

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Founded in Germany by Jean-Marc da Costa and Manfred Wolf in 1983, Serien thrives on innovation. A recent exemplar of company standards, their Zoom light transforms from lantern to chandelier in a single expandable moment (an XL version has inner and outer rings that widen to ballroom specs). Other abracadabra pieces include ceramic, foam shades, a lighted ceiling fan with wings of transparent foil, and floor lamps whose light may be variously directed at the touch of a button. (via Elements of Living)

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Leucos

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Leucos USA distributes lighting for Italian lines Andromeda, Lumina and Venini. It also produces its own lighting, like the large-scale Aella table lamp shown here, which merges old-world techniques and cutting-edge aesthetics. From recessed fixtures and chandeliers to actual lighting sculptures, the whole range is united through dedication to quality, Murano glassmaking and modern engineering. Contact the company for a catalog (the website doesn’t capture the latest and greatest). (via Elements of Living)

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Phoenix Day

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Phoenix Day produces lamps that feature traditional turned columns and bell pendants as befits a company founded in 1850. But these San Franciscans’ designs, while fundamentally legacy-minded, reveal individualistic, contemporary touches. A ceiling-mounted fixture that would typically comprise a plain globe is ringed with a sunburst-like flare. Another pendant, called Tripod, deploys a teepee motif that resurfaces on the three-legged Tripod Table Lamp. Where a sconce might only need one wall connection, the Huntington Library Bracket has two. And opposed to typically innocuous tubular shade floor lamps, Phoenix Day exhibits a heavy T-shaped base. Modernity is in the details. (via Elements of Living)

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Brass Light Gallery

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You don’t usually encounter the words hand-crafted and high-volume in the same sentence, but Stephen Kaniewski’s Brass Light Gallery in Milwaukee is beloved by commercial designers for its capacity to produce handmade fixtures in genuinely large numbers. The company, which opened as a one-man studio in 1974, has a 12-story warehouse and distribution center, in addition to manufacturing and showroom spaces. Residential designers are also happy to mine the Gallery’s exhaustive catalog of impeccably styled fixtures. The company archives their samples of finishes every 6 months to provide buyers with an accurate picture of how a finish will age. And speaking of patina, the Gallery’s venerable Italianate showroom also contains the Midwest’s biggest trove of vintage fixtures. (via Elements of Living)

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