https://www.scottlefton.com/pitcher-plant-five-head-lamp-fs.htm
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This lamp is based on the shapes of pitcher plants. The lamp heads and their mechanisms are made of stained glass, red bronze, phosphor bronze, brass, and copper. The lamp body is made of brass and mahogany. Most of the fastener hardware is stainless steel. Each of the five heads is individually height adjustable.
The curved glass sections were formed by slumping sheets of stained glass over custom refractory forms in a furnace, and then cutting the glass pieces to shape on a glass-cutting bandsaw adapted to cut in 3D. The glass pieces were joined with standard stained glass assembly techniques using copper foil and solder.
Some of the metal parts were cast from 3D printed waxes, and some were machined with a CNC milling machine. The articulated main stems and joints of the lamp heads are hollow so that electrical wires can safely pass through them. All of the metal parts plus the assembled lampshades were copper plated for an even base color and then patinated. The overall height of the lamp is about 63 inches.
Each lamp head is lit with a 60W equivalent candelabra base LED bulb and with a 16 segment RGBW Neopixel LED ring. The main bulbs and the LED rings are separately controlled both through a wireless remote and through a button on the top of the lamp's central hub.
The images shown here represent four years of research, design, and fabrication.
I looove art nouveau as an architectural and aesthetic style, gimme me organic inspired shapes please
It's my favourite of the modernist movements and needs to come back. Natural motifs plus a focus on decommodified artisan craftsmanship is so much more interesting than any cityscape in the west. It's the thing that links William Morris to what Soviet art almost became. A building like Barcelona's Palau de la Musica is a cathedral to nature: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/22_11_01_Palau_DSCF2611_52502512616_cc1e7db845_k.jpg
I was gonna ask how they did the curved glass but yeah there it is. This is incredible.
I've also seen a different Venetian technique where they both form it around a shape and manually curve it with handtools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-i_0_h4BF8
What an amazing video. The pancake happens in just seconds so I'll link to that - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-i_0_h4BF8&t=410s
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
a minute in, he's got this really hot bit of glass and it keeps suddenly changing between yellow and deep red, what's up with that?
Could be wrong, but I think that's something to do with the camera, the amount of IR emitting to the camera is changing based on the angle he's holding it - and the camera is trying to do some kind of auto adjust routine to compensate.
It doesn't seem like there's an air hose attached to the back of the pole. I can't tell if that means it's the spinning or the loss of surface area from cutting which makes it rapidly change temperature.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
He doesn't mention doing it as a commission so I think it's just a one-off personal project.
The curved glass sections were formed by slumping sheets of stained glass over custom refractory forms in a furnace, and then cutting the glass pieces to shape on a glass-cutting bandsaw adapted to cut in 3D.
slumping then cutting with a custom band saw is pretty fucking brilliant
The images shown here represent four years of research, design, and fabrication.
yeah, zero doubt there, I bet this took a lot of trial and error
The glass pieces were joined with standard stained glass assembly techniques using copper foil and solder.
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jfc
so a hobbiest with a kiln and a lot of free time technically could achieve this 🤔
Very cool
Also it was fucking hilarious yesterday when you were dunking on those French people lol
