Stuart Haygarth has collected waste that is being washed up on parts of Kent coastline. With this waste he has produced several objects. This chandelier is one of them and is mainly made of plastic objects. It’s incredible how much waste there is along the world’s coastlines, and amazing how Stuart managed to do something as beautiful as this chandelier of the ugly garbage. Read more about his work on Wallpaper.

Good morning world, and welcome to Tuesday’s daily news. The festive season has now officially arrived, but before you rush out to commence in Christmas retail warfare, make sure you take a look at our selection of today’s best design stories.

mydeco’s pick of the top three stories:

1. Wallpaper: Stuart Haygarth at Haunch of Venison, London

Image credit: Wallpaper

Today marks the opening of Stuart Haygarth’s first exhibition at the Haunch of Venison gallery in London. ‘Found’, does exactly what it says on the tin: the artist examines his ongoing relationship with abandoned or ‘lost’ objects, ranging from spectacles to plastic wine glasses. The wing mirror table seen above is one of the most noted pieces, but that could be because of the rumours circulating at the opening party that it was actually fabricated from new wing mirrors, specially smashed up in the studio to give them that nice discarded effect. Gossip aside, I can’t help but feel that another artist exhibiting the old offers nothing visually new. For more information about Found click here.

2. Daily Mail: Hothouse property gossip: The £6.25m house with the X Factor

Image credit: The Daily Mail

Imagine being able to sleep in the very same bedroom that Jedward once occupied, wash your hair in the same shower where Jamie cleaned his ‘fro (you’d probably have to unblock it first). Well your dream could soon become a reality, as  the house currently occupied by the finalists is soon to go up for sale. Located in Golders Green, North London, the six-bedroom pad comes complete with gym, media room and fingerprint entry system. If you fancy buying a piece of X-Factor history, it can be yours for a mere £6.25 million.

3. Interior Design:  Abu Dhabi Hotel Opens with World’s Largest LED Project

Image credit: Interior Design

The Middle East isn’t exactly know for its subtle taste in decor, so it’s no surprise that Abu Dhabi’s latest architectural venture demands to be noticed. The YAS hotel features the world’s biggest LED project: 5,300 diamond-shaped panels, which support 5000 light-emitting-diodes. How eco-friendly. I do hope this is suggested as a location for the World Future Energy Summit (due to take place in Abu Dhabi in January).

The best of the rest:

Inhabitat: Waterpleinen: Recreating rain reservoirs as dynamic public parks

Daily Mail: How Charlie Creig turned sixties suburbia into Miami art deco

Daily Mail: My £1.2m taste of Tudor living: Country house apartment with 3,000 sq ft – and most is in the drawing-room

Daily Mail: Get in the pink for Christmas

Independent: Ten ways to protect your property this winter

2modern: Embedded sculpture

Homes and property: Cheap Chelsea: World’s End gets smart

That concludes our selection for today, but don’t worry – we’ll be back again tomorrow to satisfy all your daily news cravings.

Il faut voir ce que fait Stuart Haygarth. C’est absolument impressionnant! Il transforme des objets banals, comme des reflecteurs de voiture, en lustre. Impressionnant non?

Moja praca to nadawanie opatrzonym i banalnym przedmiotom nowego znaczenia – tak swoją działalność opisuje Stuart Haygarth. Od 2004 roku pracuje nad projektami, które polegają na kolekcjonowaniu przedmiotów. Zbiera różne przedmioty w dużych ilościach, kategoryzuje je  i składa w sposób, który zmienia ich znaczenie. Tak powstają obiekty o zróżnicowanej formie takie jak instalacje, rzeźby, elementy dekoracyjne, żyrandole. Dzisiaj skupimy się na tych ostatnich.

Tide Chandelier

Żyrandol Tide zrobiony jest z odpadków zebranych z dna morskiego w trakcie odpływu, gdzieś w zatoce Kent. Są to w większości rzeczy plastikowe i przezroczyste o róznych kształtach i przeznaczeniu. Złożone razem formują kulę, która w zamyśle autora jest analogią księżyca.

Millenium

Ten żyrandol zrobiony jest z 1000 opakowań po zużytych petardach, pozostałych po uroczystościach milenijnych w Londynie.

Spectacle

Do tego żyrandola zużyto ponad 1000 par okuarów korekcyjnych.

Simply Perfect!!!

Visit Stuart Haygarth Website.

In march I was asked by Saint Martins to take part in the ‘Context Redux’ exhibition, showing a range of students dissertations (the ‘visual’ part to their disserations). Whilst most peoples dissertations took the form of a book, mine took the form of a ’secondary reuse’ picnic blanket– made entirely from old cut up bed sheets (which had my disseration printed on) and bird food bags. Secondary reuse is where we take unwanted products still in their original form and use them to make new functional products from. For my dissertation I discussed whether secondary reuse is a viable sustainable design solution for us today in the western world.

Apart from exhibiting, I was also asked to give a talk to second years (who were about to start the dreaded task of writting their dissertations) about my experience on writing my dissertation.

My Secondary Resuse picnic blanket.

Underneth of picnic blanket– Made from bird seed bags.

Some examples of Secondary Resuse which I wrote about in my dissertation……….

An unwanted bath transformed into a chair.

Cassette Wallets by Marcella Foschi

Messanger Bags by Freitag.

Millennium Chandelier , created from the used party poppers from the millennium celebrations by Stuart Haygarth.

Writing a blog is never quite as easy as it seems (I’m assuming it seems easy, it probably doesn’t) – striking a tone, setting a mood, saying something remotely interesting – it’s all quite intimidating really. Despite my apparent reticence, this month I am set to step up to the plate as mydeco’s newest guest blogger – and I suppose there’s no better way to start than by introducing myself.

Well, my name is Teo and I’m an arts and design journalist living in London, I write for Wallpaper* magazine among others, and aside from spending my time scouring blogs in search of the latest trends, and hot -footing it round town to keep my finger on the proverbial pulse, I like to cook, talk, eat, drink and eventually sleep – oh, and I do the occasional bit of painting as well.

When it comes to design I’m partial to anything with a bit of an artistic edge (you can take the boy out of Wallpaper* etc…) -some of my favourites at the mo include Fredrikson Stallard’s gloopy polyurethane rugs – like big, glossy red paint spillages, and lighting by Stuart Haygarth – his stunning high-colour chandeliers come made from hundreds of party poppers, old specs and recycled bottles (living proof that good design can (and should) always start at home).

Stuart Haygarth’s Millennium Chandelier

When it comes to my own space, I tend to take a bit of a hodge-podge approach, a few over-the-top traveling trinkets here, a Habitat vase there, a homemade photo frame or two – I’m pretty relaxed on the whole. My latest acquisition (an antique Guatemalan wall hanging) should give you some sort of an idea of the directionless direction I like to take – to my mind, design without personality is more often than not, just bad design.

So now that I’ve revealed a little more than perhaps is decent about myself, I’m hoping that you, the good readers of the mydeco blog, will indulge me in the occasional vent of my design spleen. I’ll be providing a weekly account of everything going on in the worlds of art and design that I think is great – in the hopes that you’ll think so too.

DAMn°, a magazine on contemporary culture No 21 is now available.

COVER/ KONSTANTIN GRCIC
Konstantin Grcic’s first wooden prototype of the 360° chair (size: 50 x 40 x 80cm, material: pine wood) dates from July 2008 and is featured among the 25 original pieces in the DAMn° exhibition Prophets & Penitents: Confessions of a Chair, which takes place in the heart of Milan at the Oratorio della Passione di Sant’Ambrogio during the Salone del Mobile. The final production of the 360° chair is manufactured in steel and polyurethane foam by Magis and will be launched during the Salone 2009. (cover)

AMERICAN BEAUTIES/CINDY SHERMAN
American artist Cindy Sherman has staged herself in an assortment of guises over the years. Her stories can be at once menacing and tragic, not exercises in self-revelation but heightened understanding and representation of others. In her new Untitled series, Sherman has cast herself as 14 moneyed, American-looking characters that seem obsessed with ageing and social status – images for a generation high on the surgeon’s knife. (1)

PAYBACK TIME/DO PIRATE
When pirates strike at your ideas, there’s no need to go overboard. Erik Kessels of KesselsKramer had nothing to do with Mathieu Maingourd, but when he saw that the French artist was making parodies, not just of his work, but that of Marcel Wanders, Ross Lovegrove, Tejo Remy and the Bouroullecs, he decided to follow the ‘crime’ trail. Reworked, revised, regardless, is mass production bad for an object’s soul? (2)

WANDERS REVISITED/MARCEL WANDERS
Have you ever wondered what design is really about? Well according to the newly relaxed-looking Marcel Wanders fabulousness should not be exclusive in terms of those who can access it. At the end of the delicious day, whether it’s in Amsterdam or Bahrain, it’s design’s job to make life that little bit more groovy.

AIR APPARENT/AN TE LIU
If you want to see explorations and connections between space, architecture, machines, hygiene, environment and modernism, then the sometimes humming airy icons of An Te Liu are both an effectively serious and flippant place to look. From multicoloured 3M household sponges to air-purifying units, he uses a vast constellation of references to make compositional provocations that are hybrid honed. (3)

WHAT GETS ME GOING/ARIK LEVY
Arik Levy has taken his work from the stages of some of the most innovative contemporary dance companies to product development for brands such as Swarovski, Ligne Roset, E15, Adidas, Vitra, Desalto and many more. Enjoyable chaos in print, for him a world of visual noise and intense lifestyle gets his emotional motors working on overtime. (4)

GOLD MINES & TIME BOMBS/ALEJANDRO ARAVENA
The Chilean-born architect Alejandro Aravena wants to have relevancy and impact in his work. For his practice, Elemental, the challenge for today’s architecture is to engage with the daily questions of development, poverty, security etc using the strategic use of form and verified on a broad context. Mayor, finance ministers, billionaire investors and World Bank agents beware, Aravena wants action and he wants it now. (5)

TWIN POWERS/THE RIKLIN BROTHERS
The Zero Star Hotel concept is an ingenious use for bunkers that have given up on waiting for emergency guests. An antithesis to the mundane megalomania and luxury of the hotel business, it’s the work of Swiss twin artists Frank and Patrick Riklin, who have long believed that art should in the middle of life not in the museum. (6)

SCRAP SCULPTURES/STUART HAYGARTH
A palaeontologist of the ordinary or an obsessive collector, Stuart Haygarth, the man previously known as Mr Chandelier Man, has used everything from spectacle lenses to party poppers to craft his sculptural works. His spellbinding way of displacing objects is no zeitgeist gimmick, the hoarded disorder precisely placed to transform the everyday into illuminating treasures. (7)

ASEPTIC WORLD/JULIAN FAULHABER
Every wondered what the world looks like through Tupperware tinted glasses? It looks like Julian Faulhaber never takes his off. The pristine locations he pictures epitomise an artificial landscape devoid of human presence, and represent what the German photographer calls ‘aggregations of spotlessness’. The unsettling results are honest photographs that look false, picturing corporate architecture’s version of the zipless fuck. (8)

ONE ROOF, SIX VOICES/ATELIER A1
Looking for a one-stop shop of contemporary Belgian design? A passport definition of such activity doesn’t really seem to fit the very individual stories of the six designers that share the roof of A1. With the common practice of design, this is a collection rather than a collective, albeit with plenty of room for mind munching over a stuffed baguette. (9)

ROCK AROUND THE BUNKER/PAUL VIRILIO
When flak towers become art galleries it is time to raise questions on the intimate relationship between design, war and society. How can we process the alarming connection between war and the latest trend? Architect, urbanist and bunker archaeologist Paul Virilio believes that war, technological development and the production of culture have always been linked and reflects on the underlying implications for the human race. (10)

SUBTERRANEAN BLUES/HONECKER’S BUNKER
Its code name suggests something a little more precious than the brutal reality. Pearl was the bunker built for the political leaders of the GDR in the event of a nuclear strike, an invitation-only shelter that exposes the cynicism of the cold war years and a part of history that is now being put in permanent cold storage. Awash with the socialist palette of beige and green, decontamination now looks to be shabbily naive. (11)

THE SHOOTIST/JUSTIN BENNETT
The acoustic urban reality of an urban space is not an exclusive personal playlist to shuffle. In Shotgun Architecture the work of Justin Bennett combines the qualities of sound, video and performance to reveal the structures of sonic exploration. Almost-music merges with sonar maps to create strange complex pavilions fascinated by the tension between sight and sound. (12)

FROM THE BIN/THORSTEN BRINKMANN
In the mercantile port of Hamburg, Thorsten Brinkmann tangles with a modern-day caveman’s dreams. Unable to resist the allure of dumped urban detritus, this German artist recomposes and intervenes in the trash to scrap cycle to come up with installations, videos or photos such as portraits and still lifes. Why wouldn’t you wrap your head in sheet metal? (13)

FOOD IN THE HOOD/DEBRA SOLOMON
Socio-political ingredients are increasingly sustaining a network of crossover creatives as they serve up edible projects that use the tools of art, design and architecture to make a local and global dish. The Dutch have a particular handle on the trend and Debra Solomon’s doughy & bubbling experiments take utopia for a walk down reality street. (14)

PETTING IN THE HOUSE/ATELIER BOW-WOW
Small Case Study Houses by Atelier Bow-Wow is a far from literal response to an iconic post-war American residential architecture programme. Borne out of a residency by the architects in Los Angeles and taking in that city’s urban dynamics, the resulting installation looks back to the tree and forward to the landfill. (15)

LIVING ROOMS/OFFICE K.GEERS & D.VAN SEVEREN
From a proposed new administrative capital for South Korea to a luxury villa sunken into the unforgiving landscape of Inner Mongolian, the Office Kersten Geers & David Van Severen asks whether you can make ‘architecture with architecture’ in a tone devoid of irony or rhetoric. Seven Rooms is their new exhibition and it has a family feel that doesn’t leave any of the projects estranged in the attic.

SKILL AND WILL/LI WEI
The hows of Chinese performance artist Li Wei do not deter from the final image, instead they provide an alternative narrative of the physical processes involved. Half submerged, floating, hanging, levitating, many of his series appear a mix of gymnastic skill and sheer will that create a tableau of eerie calm but essential wrongness. (16)

RETHINKING CITIES/WORLD DESIGN CAPITALS
When talk turns to legacies, the Olympic analogy of the World Design Capitals is explicit. The designer dust has settled in Turin, the inaugural destination for the project’s first outing, so what were the highs and lows and against the backdrop of a world economy in motion, what can the next Capital, Seoul, do to maintain the momentum of a year-long celebration?.

PRODUCTIVITY
From designer’s long departed from this mortal coil to those still handing their assignments into their professors, this bonanza-sized section features products, people and places from the Stockholm Furniture Fair to the streets of Brazil, with tantalising glimpses of the designs that will preview at Milan’s Salone del Mobile.

AGENDA
Exhibitions, events, fairs, competitions and stuff that puts two fingers up to definition. From London, New York, Paris, Berlin and Madrid via Porto, Beijing and Toronto, a selective listing of what and when to see some of the most interesting shows in the worlds of design (p176), fashion (p180), architecture (p182) and art.

NEWS
Showing and selling news from leading designers and international brands: Ingo Maurer’s new exhibition space in Munich; OFFECCT’s concept store in Stockholm; previews of Edward van Vilet’s Sushi collection for Moroso; Kvadrat’s new UK flagship store and headquarters; and Diesel’s Home Collection license agreement with Foscarini and Moroso.

While searching online for recycled and repurposed craft ideas, I kept coming across Stuart Haygarth.  Stuart takes ordinary, everyday discarded man-made objects, and makes them into show-stopping works of art.

Disposable

Made from disposable plastic wine glasses, lit by a fluorescent tube.

Spectacle

Stunning chandelier made from discarded pairs of spectacles.

Tide Chandelier

The original Tide chandelier is – ‘part of a larger body of work based on the collection of ‘ man made’ debris washed up on a specific stretch of Kent coastline’.

Artists throughout time have always been inventive with the objects around them, continually searching for beauty in most unusual places. Similarly, marketing teams and packaging gurus are continually on the hunt for new inspiration, hoping to design appropriately for the future.  Though the motives often differ, the end results are generally similar.  Artist Randy Polumbo of Joshua Tree, CA has always been passionate about using found objects to create art and was recently highlighted in the New York Times about his life long architectural endeavors. “I had very specific rules, to use nothing new except steel — it’s already a recycled material and no paint and no Sheetrock,” rules that laid the groundwork for creative explosions.  Inside there are embedded tequila, wine and soda bottles in the wall, a flashlight chandelier and countless other treasures that most anyone would agree, is quite striking.

Lighting designer Stuart Haygarth creates beautiful pieces from man-made debris, breathing life into objects that would otherwise be tossed away.  His “Tide” chandeliers are literally created from washed up trash found upon the Kent coastline.

Looking for an eco-friendly kitsch vacation stay?  Look no further than the Costa Verde Hotel in Costa Rica, recently featured on Inhabitat.  A salvaged boeing 727 jet from San Jose was transported piece by piece through the jungle where it was then reassembled onto a 50 ft. pedestal and now doubles as a hotel.  No matter the size, sustainable methods for living can be applied to products of all shapes and sizes, proving that creativity paired with determination can lead practical, inventive, and beautiful solutions.

Additional reporting by Emily Gup.

A lamp made out of lightbulbs- Image courtesy of Treehugger

Do you want your apartment or room to look different from anyone else’s?

I may have the solution.

In the blog, Webecoist, a blogger  nicknamed “Steph” provided information about 15 lights made from recycled products such as legos, egg cartons, blenders and ballpoint pens in a March 8 post.

The coolest light mentioned in the post is the Vespa Light, made from a 2003 Vespa motorcycle by the company Lamponi’s Lamps. The company’s website doesn’t list a price for the lamp, which comes in a variety of colors.

Vespa Lamp- image courtesy of Great Green Goods

My  favorite product mentioned in the blog is the “Traffic Light” lamp, which comes in three colors: “Intimidating Red”, “Yielding Yellow” and “Go Green”. At $99 to $299, the lamps, sold by the company Greenlight Concepts, would be the perfect addition to a club’s decor.

Traffic Light Lamp- image courtesy of Treehugger

Another cool product is the Waterbottle chandelier, created by Stuart Haygarth, a lighting designer who has designed many recycled lights like this one.

Waterbottle Chandelier- image courtesy of TreeHugger

Why go to  Home Depot  for lighting when you have these trendy and eco-friendly options?

To see the other cool lights, read Steph’s post.

October 27, 2008: If you looked at the Ten Greatest Designers in Britain feature in the Observer you’d be forgiven for thinking that design is principally the coercion of consumers into buying more stuff. OK, buying lovelier stuff. But unequivocally the handmaiden of consumersism. We all know it doesn’t make a great lifestyle feature in magazines, but what of design’s more metaphysical power? A designer’s ability to thwart consumerism by encouraging us to reason the very need for a product? Design’s ability to help us remember the experience without buying the souvenir. While we should give thanks for the 10% nod to the ability of design o breathe new life into something old which is represented quite gloriously by Stuart Haygarth; we need to advance the magazine discourse of design so that you can turn heroic deeds into a lifestyle feature. So it’s not a magazine, but we should certainly give thanks for Alice Rawsthorn’s Monday column in the International Herald Tribune which is a weekly intravenous feed of design seen in the large perspective of global business, society and technology. All this while at the same time making design seem smart and lifestyle-ey as well, just like magazines do, even in the August doldrums. 

Kazakhstan’s estimated 12,000 newly-minted millionaires can now be rewarded with a credit card that has an inlaid diamond and gold leaf details, gratifyingly gendered with a winged horse illustration for rich men and a peacock for rich women. The Observer reported: “The bank has said that the embedded diamond is only a ‘design feature’ to demonstrate the status of the customer”. Only a design feature. Harmless enough then, and no more than a signifier of wealth and status. Sigh.

I have had many readers tell me they really like the chandelier from a previous post made from coffee stirrers .  So in response, I have hunted down a few more recycled chandeliers that I think are also beautiful and inspiring.

This light of pop art flowers is made from recycled soda bottle bottoms.  

Artist Michelle Brand says her Cascade Chandelier can be seen two ways, as a grim comment on a throw away culture or an homage to the beauty found in mass produced items. I can see this as being a fun family project when the weather outside is too cold or wet.

 
 Don’t let the color fool you on this next light by Stuart Haygarth.  

This light is crafted from 416 disposable plastic wine glasses.  A pink fluorescent light inside creates the striking color.  If this light is too big he also makes one from 280 glasses.  I want to know who is drinking all that wine.

Stuart Haygarth has made many chandeliers from found objects.  My new favorite of his is made from water bottles confiscated at the airport.  It replaces my previous favorite, the Tide chandelier, made from trash that washed up on the shores of the Kent coast line. 

For smaller lights, I admire the work of Johanna Keimeyer.  She carves up plastic bottles to create interesting and whimsical pendants.

Luminarias arte do britanico Stuart Haygarth feitas de objetos simples, como bolas, tacas de vinho e oculos. Sensacionais. 

Mais direto no site do artista clicando aqui.

In addition to his photography of handmade collages of 2D imagery and 3D objects on a large-format camera, Stuart Haygarth constructs lighting fixtures from found objects. Taking an object and reconstructing it into a new object gives the viewer a new perspective on the multiple lives of a single product.

The Millennium Chandelier is constructed from 1,000 used party poppers, discarded after the Millennium celebrations in London. Each row is suspended on a line from the previous row, and the light source is a 60W incandescent bulb. The chandelier was produced in a limited edition of 20 and is also available in all-black party poppers.

This chandelier, constructed from 1,020 pairs of prescription eye glasses strung together in tiers, produces the same effect as a mirrored-ball when the light refracts through several layers of lenses. Spectacle, produced in a limited edition of 20 pieces, is available for purchase from the artist.

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This is a beautiful piece by Stuart Haygrath.

Spectacle is created from 1020 pairs of prescription spectacles which are linked together to resemble a traditional tiered chandelier. By using prescriptive spectacles which were once an essential tool for seeing an interesting analogous line is drawn between their old and new purposes. A mirror ball light effect is produced as the light is refracted through the several layers of lenses.

I like Haygarth’s work because he takes everyday objects and turns them into magical light sculptures. They cause me to step back and look at materials in a different way. Go to his site to check the many other pieces he created out of found objects like disposable wine glasses, man made debris from the shore, and more. http://www.stuarthaygarth.com/default.asp?V_DOC_ID=1063

 This pretty light fixture is a creation by Stuart Haygarth called the Tide Chandelier.  Need a close up?

Now let me explain… this piece is made out of a collection of man-made debris that Stuart found over the past several years washed up on the Kent coastline.  He chose the sphere shape “as an analogy for the moon which effects the tides which in turn wash up the debris.”

Although it is sad that all this “junk” was at one time floating in our oceans, it is always interesting to get a new perspective and see how people are incorporating the “green movement” into their product offerings.  For more cool sustainable design that doesn’t suck, check out the Good Magazine’s article titled, Looking at Sustainable Design that Doesn’t Suck.

Unfortunately, now I want to dump loads of random stuff right off the Kent coastline in hopes that Stuart will make more of his sold out beauties

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

I ran across this artist’s website randomly one day and fell in love with it immediately!

Stuart Haygarth takes found objects and creates lighting fixtures with them. It is amazing! His work includes glassware, lamp globes, eyeglasses, and other things.

He balances between sculptor and photographer in his works. Judging from the information on his site, he seems to consider himself a Photographer. What do you think? Is he more a photographer or a sculptor?

The images below are from a light he designed from popped party poppers from the Millenium New Years Celebration in London. It is such a beautiful shape with playful colors…

…but just look how amazing it is when the light inside is turned on. Who knew discarded trash could be so beautiful?

Check out his website at www.stuarthaygarth.com to see more examples of his work.