The firm Site Specific Design, creates furniture inspired by arthropods (particularly chilopoda), mollusks, and the other critters that live under decaying leaf matter. Creative Director, Rui Docouto, explained that as a child he was fascinated with "bugs." "The goal with the bug-lamps was to give them a feeling of movement as though they were alive and in the process of movement, as they still are in the artist/designers memory." Check out their elegant, creepy-crawly furniture which is sure to be a huge hit within the fabulously wealthy entomologist market.
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Wow! They are some pretty creepy looking--lamps? You couldn't sit on most of them. The "nymph" looks cute: kind of pettable. But I would be cautious about buying them. I once freaked out a co-worker by wearing a shirt with a picture of ladybugs on it.
Posted by: Monado | August 9, 2008 7:26 PM
They look more like stuff for marine biologists than entomologists.
And everyone knows marine biologists, not entomologists, have the kind of big bucks to buy this stuff, anyway :D
Posted by: bug_girl | August 11, 2008 10:16 PM
WANT.
Posted by: mr_subjunctive | August 16, 2008 8:53 AM