The fashion of the Zeroes might still be bedded in revival fever but early 21st century industrial design has been fast forwarding with a brilliant new aesthetic. Designers like Phillipe Starck (with the seminal Louis Ghost chair), Ferruccio Laviani (with his eagerly anticipated Bourgie lamp) and Jon Russel (with the Ghost Candelabra) are addressing the computer age’s tension between a digital aesthetic and the revisionist impulse towards the decorative .Our favorite new product though has to be Tord Boontje’s insanely successful Garland light set which uses Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) routing to create a gorgeous tangle of stainless steel flowers and leaves. It is so this year’s Milk Bottle lamp. And if you mod-minimalist friends want to sneer in disapproval, just tell them its your directional Art Nouveau gesture. All for a mere $70!
