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    7/9/11

    Bright Lights


    Like Jake Dyson's previous highly-engineered wall and floor lights, the new CSYS LED Task Light shows  serious attention to detail. In this case Dyson has honed his attention on precision and control of heat, durability colour and the distribution of light. All while avoiding the environmental issues caused by the use of mercury in CFL, so better inducing an inner glow for the user too.

    According to Jake, while LEDs always ran cooler than any other household lights, heat can still damage the diodes, so an efficient cooling system makes his new light last even longer. His solution - to incorporate heat pipes - normally used in laptops to stop them from burning our thighs - is a pretty smart one.

    Beyond obscure technical details for experts, we can vouch that the CSYS is an LED lamp put together properly, with thought and style. And the best bit - because long life and coolness counts for nothing if it makes your light cold and harsh - this doesn't make our rooms look like fluorescent-lit fridges either.

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    1/8/11

    Toogood for the likes of us

    Not content with just having a good name to begin with, Faye Toogood has rapidly made a great name for herself on the interiors circuit in recent years, as a stylist and now as a furniture designer, and here at Because we now are hotly anticipating her third furniture collection.

     

    Set to launch during the London Design Festival in September, the collection is called 'Delicate Interference', and will be available exclusively through Phillips de Pury & Company.

     

    Right on trend, as the former Decoration Editor at World of Interiors is apt to be, Delicate Interference "examines the natural, optical force of iridescence" in a range of pieces in bronze, aluminium, steel, glass and resin. By "natural, optical, force of iridescence" we're only guessing that it is channeling the multihued marvels that are butterflies and beetles, rainbows and the likes, but either way the results are very pretty.

     

    The collection comprises a dressing table, a floor light, a wall sconce, an oil resin cube, and a mobile as well as updated versions of the Spade Chair, Spade Stool and Element Table from the second range. The exhibition will be on view to the public from 16 September until 4 October 2011 at the Phillips de Pury space at Claridge's, 45 - 47 Brook Street, London W1.

     

    http://www.studiotoogood.com/

    http://www.phillipsdepury.com/

    http://www.londondesignfestival.com /

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    25/7/11

    Kenneth Grange: Making Britain Modern

    From the Kodak camera to the Kenwood Chef, with Parker pens, taxi cabs and Anglepoise lamps all squeezed inbetween, the range of Kenneth Grange is awe-inspiring. The designer is the focus of the Design Museum's major summer exhibition - a celebratory retrospective of more than 50 years of Grange's career to date. And while it might appear on the surface to be an exhibition of quite ordinary everyday items, it's also an extraordinary eye opener, featuring all kinds of innovations that have in some way or other helped to modernise British life over the decades.



    Certainly, the fact that one man is responsible for designing so many of the products and appliances that shape British life is both inspiring and a little shocking. Born in 1929, Grange has designed the archetypes for number of domestic products: Razors for Wilkinson Sword, cigarette lighters for Ronson, Irons for Morphy Richards, and so on, before in 1972 (alongside Alan Fletcher, Theo Crosby, Colin Forbes and Mervyn Kurlansky) he established Pentagram, the multi-disciplinary design consultancy with near-legendary success worldwide. Hipsters today can sing his praises as the man behind the Kodak instamatic camera in 1968, the start of a new generation of portable, inexpensive cameras - and the inspiration behind a million iPhone apps forty years later. And lest we forget the high speed Intercity 125 train appears in his repertoire too.

    Despite that his products are universally recognised, and despite being made a Royal Designer for Industry in 1969, and receiving a CBE in 1984, Grange has - always working on behalf of another brand - somehow remained a relatively quiet presence in the background over the years. Charming, influential and infectiously passionate about his work, he is well respected and revered within the design community, but it is surely time for him to become a household name himself, alongside his work. This blockbuster of an entertainingly educational exhibition sings the praises for this hero of modern design: of food mixers and fountain pens - and about time.

    http://designmuseum.org/
    Design Museum until 30 October
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