designcommotion
BLAME
IT ON RIO?
THERE’S NO DEBATE THAT BRAZILIAN DESIGN IS LUSCIOUS
BUT IS RIO REALLY TO BLAME? MORE
BLOW A FUSE!
Fuse Lighting is introducing new designs in New York and Los Angeles this month. Made with semi-precious stones and gems, the fixtures are as playful as light itself: www.fuselighting.com.
THE MAKING OF A MUSEUM:
MAM RISING 
MEMO TO SELF: POINT, CLICK, CLIP!
Though it is increasingly easy to buy almost anything a designer can buy without, dare we say it, going through a designer, the wallcoverings marketplace remains in a virtual lockdown. Though Decorati is not opening the doors fully, the design web site is making it easier than ever to order wallpaper samples, or memos. Simply create a login ID and either find a designer or use the Decorati Buying Service. The site has a wide array of wallpaper styles and colors, like the pert Villa design by Studio Printworks.
Well, I’ll be....
damned.mgx light fixture designed by Dutch architect Lux Merx will catch anyone’s attention with so many pleading gestures writhing upon its Polyamide surface. Part of the Materialise.mgx collection, an assemblage of one-of-a-kind objects, damed.mgx was produced by rapid prototyping techniques. There may still be time to grab the fixture, which was on sale at Glottman, for a measly $45,000 (marked down from $65,000)!
Merx imagines the lamp hanging above a dining table, the shock of the frozen, terrified bodies disturbing diners with age-old questions of guilt and morality, issues usually kept behind closed doors. Food for thought?