Are you a happy owner of an outdoor space? A beach, modern, Scandinavian, rustic or some other garden, terrace and balcony or a backyard? Besides providing nice decor and styling, you will need cool landscaping (if you have a garden) and some lights to illuminate the space. Lighting is one of the main factors to create...
56 Outdoor Concrete Furniture Ideas With Pros And Cons
What’s the ideal material for modern outdoor furniture? Concrete, of course! It’s tough, durable, sculptural and looks very contemporary and edgy. Famous designers create amazing chairs, tables, lamps, coat racks, benches and racks from it. I like uncovered concrete, which is highlighted with all its shades and imperfections. Let’s take a look at some advantages...
Unique Lightweight Concrete Furniture Collection
Concrete used inside the home as a main design feature is becoming more and more mainstream thanks to the newer lightweight versions; if you love the visceral qualities of concrete and would like to incorporate it into your home without using it as an architectural statement via floors, walls or even counter tops, adding a...
Pumpal Light Resembling Kids’ Spinning Top Toys
British designer Ewan Cashman has created a cement and wood floor lamp based on the shapes of spinning top toys he played with as a child. It features a circular white base that tapers to a point, attached to a long slender wooden body. The base is composed of hollow concrete, and provides the weight...
Minimalist Art Of Light: Concrete Lights Experiment
Elim Cheng is an interactive designer who offers us a new way to experience concrete, combining it with the warmth of the light bulb, and volumes molded by unexpected objects, like plastic bags and paper boxes. Concrete Lights Experiment shows the problem of removing the plastic bottle without damaging the object, and the difficulty of...
Unusual Soft Pendant Lights Of Cement By Rainer Mutsch
We’ve seen many original cement lamp designs and here’s one more cool light to the collection – Soft Light by Austrian designer Rainer Mutsch, created for Italian lighting brand Molto Luce. Cement is a very solid material but these lamps seem appear soft and pliable. Each individual luminaire shade is molded manually from soft fiber...