MAC / STUART HAYGARTH INSTALLATION Always on the lookout for the avant-garde, our first project for MAC Cosmetics in 2006 was the commission of original artworks for the brand’s New York City and Los Angeles flagship store. To coincide with the launch of MAC’s spring color collection, “culture bloom,” artist Stuart Haygarth fabricated two sculptural chandeliers to create a fantastical explosion of color. The other week I saw the Stuart Haygarth show titled “Found” at Haunch of Venison. Having only seen one of his chandelier pieces at the re-opening of New Museum in NYC a few years ago, it was great to see his newer furniture projects alongside a collection of his lighting. The furniture is successful by his process, re-purposing meticulously curated collections of found objects, but there is a quality to his lighting that literally and conceptually elevates objects beyond their industrial disposition. The lack of this relationship in the furniture is perhaps because we are already adept to accessing and using objects at these proximities, in these positions.

Objects, functional or not, are experienced by being picked up, turned, thrown away, packed, stored, displayed…  Adversely, the chandeliers force us to look up through the lenses and eyeglass frames used in the collection, effectively displacing the viewer and the objects an equidistance from their utilitarian relationship, revealing new emotional typologies. The lens-frame chandeliers, called urchin lights, are so evocative in their possession of  historical reference, I felt they were the most successful pieces in the show. Displayed in the only darkened room in the gallery, they loom over the  viewer in an unmatched cluster of three, initially ocean-like in their presence. Once under them, they attain more robotic and skeletal qualities. Seeing so many tiny clavicle-like frames is instantly reminiscent of described holocaust remains, personal objects that were indefinitely part of daily life, an enabler, a dis-abler, a by-product. In grouping such an immensity of frames, the objects are considered on levels of dispossession, the sinister suggestion of an object’s ability to persevere beyond the life of its owner.

This possibly is an objects greater life, from the time of abandonment to reincarnation. Other favorites were the table lamps whose bases were adorned with the obsessive cat and dog collections often thrown to the second-hand shop. The Stuart Haygarth show “Found”, will be up at Haunch of Venison, 6 Burlington Gardenshow to get chandelier seed in growtopia London W1S 3ET, through 30 January.chandelier cso fait maisonBe the first to comment!chandelier tandoori long eaton Barnacle and Harpon 321 are one-off pieces by British designer Stuart Haygarth, made for the Oxford Street windows of department store Selfridges. Commissioned for the London store’s Wonder Room boutique, the pieces were made to evoke the theme of storms.

As with most of Haygarth’s work, Harpon 321 and Barnacle are made with objects the designer found on the beach at Dungeness in Kent, but unlike his similarly constructed chandeliers, these contain no lights. “The Harpon 321 is based on a particular make of fisherman’s glove I’ve found over the years,” says Haygarth. “The other two, Barnacle (White) and Barnacle (Black), are based on collections of white plastic and black plastic I’ve found.” The Barnacle pieces were inspired by World War Two sea mines; Harpon 321 is rather more personal and evocative. “It’s kind of unnerving when you’re walking along a beach and you find a glove that’s had some sort of life and has obviously belonged to someone once,” says Haygarth. He compares the finished form to a sea urchin, or the kind of hardy plants that live on the Kent coast. “It looked quite organic, because it had very textured fingers.” The pieces, on display until 30 April, are on sale for £10,000 each.

top image Harpon 321, made of fishermen’s gloves Barnacle (White), which resembles a sea mineTweet it to your followers! Latest from author 3 Origami chapel in Switzerland Craig Robins on Design Miami FT Climate Change Challenge Win two tickets to see Alberto Alessi at the Design Museum Related items (by tag) icon 059 out nowA post about rubber ducks and plastic flotsam collectors. A post about laundry detergent. A post about a moon-shaped lamp. One never knows what the Information Ocean will wash up on the Daddy Types shore, does one? Artist Stuart Haygarth has created Tide Chandelier out of the accumulated, sorted, categorized [and, hopefully, rinsed and cleaned] mostly clear and translucent man-made debris that has washed up on a specific stretch of the Kent coastline. The elements hang from an MDF platform to form a 1.5-meter sphere, which is lit from within by an incandescent bulb. The shape is reminiscent of the moon, whose tidal pulls drive the waves that brought the chandeliers' materials ashore.

If I remember correctly from my US public school geography class, Kent is on the opposite side of the Pacific from all those rubber ducks, which wouldn't turn translucent for another ten years, anyway. But maybe one of Haygarth's remaining edition of ten has enough toys and baby-related flotsam in it to make it suitable for a nursery. It's worth an ask, anyway. Daddy Types is published by Greg Allen with the help of readers like you. Got tips, advice, questions, and suggestions? greg [at] daddytypes [dot] com Join the [eventual] Daddy Types mailing list! Bizarre Childrens Book Contest | DT Childrens Book Review Contest | gear not strollers | nyc men's room changing tables | back in the day celebrities are just like us eric snowdeal iii, iv copyright 2016 daddy types, llc. no unauthorized commercial reuse. privacy and terms of use published using movable type Subscribe to Daddy Types' feed Play by Stuart Haygarth Showcases Gorgeous Eco-Friendly Lighting

By: Meghan Young - References: stuarthaygarth & coolhunting The recently opened exhibit titled Play by Stuart Haygarth, a photographer-turned-designer based in London, showcases his stunning chandeliers. Making waves on the Internet more than five years ago, this United Kingdom artist has continued to expand his collection using found objects as his main source of materials. Yet none of the light fixtures in Play by Stuart Haygarth come off as secondhand at all. Instead, they take on a gorgeous, breathtaking presence that could easily grace a modern palace or other such luxurious spaces. His sculptural chandeliers are made from such objects as plastic containers and sunglass lenses. According to Cool Hunting, "His process follows a precise methodology in which Haygarth classifies everything according to two categories—color and function." Related Reports: Chandelier Report, Dual-Purpose Report, Youth Campaign Report, Automated Technology Report, Gen X Travel Report