Do you mean a common
incandescent tungsten filament lamp? If so, is combustibility a concern?
In the US, it would be difficult to market such a fixture due to fire safety codes.
As for your designs, I like the somewhat amorphous organic forms. I'm sure that when they are illuminated with warm-colored low wattage lamps, they provide a comforting glow.
Very interesting.
I am about to embark on a dining-table light for a client, who showed me photos of Frank Gehry's "Cloud" light (which I had never seen, and are made of unknown material and look a bit like lazy cat's first piece).
Paper is a perfectly respectable material for electric lighting, in my experience. Ordinary kraft paper takes on a nice amber color in front of low-wattage incandescent bulbs. The paper lantern prototype below stayed on 24 hrs a day for years, in my room -- the lamp is a 15-watt refrigerator bulb, quite near the top of the lantern (which was made from an ordinary paper bag). After many years the top dried out and began to disintegrate; the second photo shows the lantern with a newly-made top portion.
SDR, there's a Nomex product
available that resembles a thin oaktag card stock that seems like it would be suitable for the purpose and provide a similar effect to craft paper. We used to line fine art shipping crates with it per client specs. I never did find what I consider a satisfactory adhesive for it, though. We used a 3M high-performance double-stick acrylic, but I'm not sure that would stand up to higher temps.
Gehry's Cloud lamps seem to be made from a non-woven polyester material. Hollytex springs to mind.
Your lamp is quite architectural, as is to be expected. What's the base made from?
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For me
the art of paper lantern making is an Eastern tradition that was artfully explored by Noguchi
It is therefore no longer a concept or a new idea, but a craft or the development of a tradition.
Personally, I find your lamps a little artless and lacking in finesse.
That might just be the quality of the photographs of course.
Sorry to sound negative- just my opinion
I quite like them, like they ...
I quite like them, like they could be spiders eggs sacks or some sort of alien glowing cocoon, are you just laying the paper over a ballon (beach ball?) and then deflating it afterwards?
Perhaps they might suit a club or restaraunt, slowly dimming and brightening?
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