Kitchen Clarity Adventures in Kitchen and Bath Design

I’m a huge admirer of Ingo Maurer’s lamp designs,  many of them have that playful simplicity that makes you think, “I could have done that” -  as long as none of your friends are around to cut you down to size!

Lucellino is simply a lightbulb with wings:

Transformed into a flock it becomes Birds Birds Birds

And the beautiful Zettel’z is in essence postcards on document clips:

Although clearly, the precise arrangement is key, not as easy as it looks  – as this “tribute” demonstrates:

I’ve always thought that the Campari fixture  might be a good place to start with my own “tribute” – because there’s no such thing as plagiarism in design, right? – or as Picasso is supposed to have said,

Good artists borrow, great artists steal

It looks as though all I need is a citrus juicer, some wire, and those cute little Campari Soda bottles:

Only problem is, around here Campari only seems to come undiluted and in full-sized bottles

and that’s too much Campari to hang on a light fixture, never mind the weight. I’d have to drink it first, and refill the bottles with colored water, so almost certainly the only creation I’d end up with would be a Porca Miseria

only mine would be an inelegant heap on the floor:

So it’s back to the Zetell’z for my first tribute plagiarism  project – how much harder than flower-arranging can it be? My Earth Day idea (I bet you’d  forgotten all about that) is to use LED light sources, and instead of postcards, to decorate it with some of the  fancy polymer and reclaimable ink pages out of Cradle to Cradle.
Since, as I understand it, these elaborately conceived pages are fully recyclable, but not actually being recycled anywhere as the technology does not yet exist to do so economically, this might be a more practical way to save those pages from the land fill, and generate some great dinner conversation at the same time.
What do you think – am I on to a winner?

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