Whimsical Table Lamps by Ingo Maurer Are A Nod To Mickey Mouse and Disney.

Ingo Maurer always has such imaginative ideas when it comes to lighting at witnessed by such unique designs as his LED wallpaper and his stunning butterfly lamps.

Seeing RED At The Conran Shop. Over 40 Designers Do It In RED to Mark 25 Years.

THE CONRAN SHOP UNVEILS RED, A SPECIAL EXHIBITION FOR THE LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL 2012, 14-23 September 2012

The Conran Shop is pleased to announce RED, a special exhibition to mark 25 years at the Michelin Building during the London Design Festival 2012. The exhibition will include works by over 40 designers including Jasper Morrison, Thomas Heatherwick, Nendo, John Pawson, Ingo Maurer, Marcel Wanders, Raw Edges and Alexander Taylor.

LED Wallpaper Is Now A Reality. Ingo Maurer and Architects Paper Have Brought It To Life.

For three years Architects Paper and lighting designer Ingo Maurer worked together to support the work on LED wallpaper.


above: Lighting Designer Ingo Maurer in front of his LED wallpaper (image courtesy of Habitus Living)
 
Martin Hisge, Marketing Manager of Architects Paper, says "Product development takes time, the more so as alongside the pure wallpaper printing, a lot of new electro-technical work came our way for which we first of all had to find solutions." And the commitment paid off. With the LED wallpaper there is the first marriage of modern lighting techniques with proven non-woven wallpaper.




How It's Made
Optically, the wall covering as printed circuit board comes from there. According to the concept of Ingo Maurer, design and function go hand in hand. On white, red or green, matte non-woven wallpaper the conducting paths are printed double-sided as a closed circuit.



Distributed over them are white, red and blue LEDs. The red and blue diodes form optical cuboids with the white lights loosely and irregularly spread around them.






On Green, When off:

On Green, When On:



J.S. Dieber, the Product Designer at Architects Paper, who was significantly involved in the development, expects the new paper to create history. "Thus far, all the works of Ingo Maurer were design classics. The LED wallpaper has also the absolute potential to become that."

The wallpaper is dimmable, so it can be as subtle as you'd like:



Architect's Paper writes:
"The mood and atmosphere of a room are primarily linked with lighting. In this connection it fulfills three functions: the basic lighting serves orientation, the local lighting or the zonal lighting provides the purposeful lighting for definite tasks such as working, reading or cooking and the mood lighting provides striking accents and highlights in the room. A really special highlight in room lighting choreography is created using the new LED wallpaper - Ingo Maurer from Architects Paper. The first wallpaper with integrated LED lamps. Many hundreds of small points of light set the scene for this spectacular wallpaper as lighting from Architects Paper which is the premium brand from A.S. Creation Tapeten AG who are Europe's largest wallpaper manufacturers. Behind this idea is the multi prize-winning Lighting designer Ingo Maurer. With this innovation, walls are transformed into a stage for a unique show of lighting, a drama both extravagant and memorable."

The LED wallpaper offers very thrilling possibilities to illuminate rooms: Dimmed, enigmatic light hardly revealing where the shine is coming from or an urban vibrating atmosphere – to mention only a few options. It’s magic! A big advantage also is that the LED wallpaper can be hung in more or fewer strips and lengths according to the architecture and furnishing of a room. Interior designers have the choice.

Available colors:



Ingo Maurer's LED Wallpaper was selected as "Best of Best" among the winners of the 2012 Interior Innovation Award.



Architects Paper
a brand ofA.S. Création Tapeten AG
Südstrasse 47
D-51645 Gummersbach
Tel +49 (0) 22 61 / 542-342
Fax + 49 (0) 22 61 / 542-369
hisge@architects-papers.com

Like Moths To A Flame. Butterfly Lamps by Ingo Maurer with Insects by Graham Owen.

At the 2011 Euroluce show, Ingo Maurer, known for his wild lighting designs, unveiled two fabulous hanging lamps. One for mass-production, the other in a limited production. The Johnny B. Butterfly and the J.B. Schmetterling (Schmetterling is German for butterfly) lamps feature realistic butterflies, moths, and dragonflies that created by California artist Graham Owen.


above: Ingo Maurer in his Los Angeles studio working on the lamps

The Johnny B. Butterfly
The Johnny B. Butterfly version is made with a bulb that has a Teflon band on which two handmade butterflies and one dragonfly are perched. The lamp is fitted with a 105 watt bulb is made especially for Ingo Maurer GmbH and belongs to energy efficiency class C, which conforms to EU guidelines.



The Johnny B. Butterfly lamp will be mass-produced and was expected to be available for purchase by Autumn 2011 but is still not on the market. No known price as of yet.


above: the butterfly lamps featured with artwork by Graham Owen

The J.B. Schmetterling Lamp
The J.B. Schmetterling is a limited production and features more insects:


Ingo Maurers' butterfly lamps were shown in a Milan exhibition at Spazio Krizia in April, 2011:

images courtesy of Ingo Maurer and Graham Owen Gallery

Funky Find Of The Week: Ingo Maurer's Seven Rats Table Lamp

The Seven Rats table light. Designed by German Artist Ingo Maurer and team, 2007.




This unique lighted art piece depicts seven plastic rats (four black and three white) locked inside a steel, gold, brass and plastic cage structure measuring 33.5" x 15.7" x 15.7".




The whole piece is lit with a 50 watts halogen WFL 55:, socket GU 5,3, 230/125/12volts and has a continuously variable transformer-dimmer. You can purchase it for $4,680.00 USD. Buy it here at Unica Home.

German born artist and light objects designer, Ingo Maurer has been the recipient of many design awards and his work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including the museum of modern art in new york. Considered an outsider with rare artistic style, Ingo Maurer adds provocation and fun to the world of design.

See more of his wild 'art' lighting at his site here.