Art And Craft Merge In These Lighting Designs
Lighting with carefully composed details—rendered slowly and by hand—collapses the divide between art and craft.
Francesca Anfossi, the Italian-born, London-based cofounder of Rochester Square—an idyllic community garden and ceramics studio in the Camden neighborhood—hand-built her clay and blown-glass lamps, Helianthus and Gum, as canvases for layered slips and matte-and-gloss compositions that derive from her background as a painter. francescaanfossi.com
Photograpy by Annika Kafcaloudis. 
Photograpy by Annika Kafcaloudis.
Based in Melbourne, Australia, the design practice Volker Haug Studio debuts the Pilz collection of table lamps featuring decorative murrine patterns, made by layering colored Murano glass into candy cane–esque rods that are heated, then pulled like taffy and sliced to reveal gloriously detailed cross sections. volkerhaug.com
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