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The 'Pifco Usherette’ upcycled Torch Table Lamp/Desk LampMade from a vintage 1950s Pifco torch. Popcorn please.I remember seeing old films where people were shown to their seats in the cinema by an usherette using a torch. This torch could have been one of those.The 'Pifco Usherette’ Upcycled Torch Table Lamp/Desk LampI love the soft gold colour of the torch and the fact that it still has its original pifco label. What fascinates me is that a torch has metamorphosed into a quirky electric table lamp. I have kept its basic integrity as much as possible; you still unscrew the front...

  All it's a light lighting now uses LEDs except where there is no current alternative. https://www.itsalight.co.uk/collections/mid-century-modern-lighting-table-lamps/products/original-and-unique-bencini-comet-hyper-flash-table-lamp

The giant industrial-style deco LEDcollection has smoky grey glass and a thin single vertical LED filament. read more

An interactive crossing designed for roads that would respond to people’s changing movements throughout the day has been prototyped in South London. Starling Crossing has been created by urban design consultancy Umbrellium, and works by lining roads with a material embedded with LED light technology. The project was commissioned by car insurance company Direct Line.This is accompanied by two cameras at either end of a crossing area, which are “not for surveillance” and do not store images, says Usman Haque, founding partner at Umbrellium, but instead are “effectively the equivalent of motion sensors”. Crossings appear and disappear As people approach...

    An installation by filmmaker Cerith Wyn Evans titled Forms in Space … by Light (in Time) is on view at the Tate Britain in London through Aug. 20. The artwork, created for the annual Tate Britain Commission, is made of nearly 2 kilometers (6,561 feet) of neon tubes suspended from the ceiling of the museum’s Duveen Galleries. Arranged in three sections, the sculpture of straight lines, sweeping curves, and spiraling forms finds its starting point in a single neon ring and ends in a maze of neon lines. Evans’ “drawing in space” takes its inspiration from the precise...