KNOTTY BUBBLES

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Discovered these in a recent issue of (inside) as part of a review on Design Week in Milan for 2011 and immediately fell in love.  Knotty Bubbles is a unique lighting fixture crafted from hand-blown glass and rope.  Designer Lindsey Adelman and her team create these incredible, sculptural, organic pieces out of their studio in Manhattan.  Although all of the pieces are exquisite, Knotty Bubbles is easily the standout work.  

Lindsey Adelman Studio have this to say about the work on their website:

A collection of one-off hand-blown glass light fixtures bound and tethered with intricately knotted rope. The barnacle-like forms are rolled in 23k gold.  The grouping is evocative of shipwrecked pirate's treasure, snarls of Baroque jewelry, and submerged slow growth.

I particularly love the inflated and tangled form of the fixture pictured above. I originally saw Knotty Bubbles with the white rope detailing which gave the piece a different, distinctly more innocent feel.  Personally, I prefer the black.  The rope looks stunning against the warm lighting and the black glass rolled in gold presents a far more luxe connotation than it's neutral counterpart.

Lindsey Adelman Studio   

195 Chrystie Street Unit 203D 

New York, NY 10002

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