GNR8 new/s

Airswitch

Designers: Mathmos Design Studio

The newest addition to the ever popular Mathmos London line of lights, the Airswitch 1 & Airswitch are now available. Based on remarkable new Mathmos technology, the lamps work in a totally new, yet intuitive way:

Slowly pass your hand horizontally through the air above the Airswitch to turn it on or off. Slowly raise and lower your hand above Airswitch to brighten or dim.

It's like....magic....

AIRSWITCH1 & AIRSWITCHTC, US$89 (including shipping) AVAILABLE NOW AT GNR8

Automata Lights (Redux)

Designer: Paul Gurry

These DIY lights (they come in 12-72 piece, easy to construct models), designed by Australian designer Paul Gurry, are not your little sister's lamp kits. The finished lights are dramatic, futuristic and just a little enigmatic. In other words, they're way cool.

Available now only at GNR8

liquid_light

Designers: Büro Für Form

From the designers website:

"A product needs more than perfect function and ergonomics. A product needs spirit, emotion, and poetry!"

We couldn't have said it better ourselves.

Available now ONLY at gnr8

glow brick

Designers: Sam & Jude

The latest from always trendy, always controversial (some people love them, some hate them) design team Suck UK, this nightlight is the ultimate in simplicity: The encased bulb recharges from natural light during the day, and glows at night.

Totally environmental. Totally Cool.

US$45. Available now at GNR8

neon chandelier

Designer: Matt Dilling

From New York Magazine's Rima Suqi:

Chandeliers are back in fashion, but if your taste tends to the modern, you’re likely to find yourself left in the dark by multiple tiers dripping with crystals. There’s one exception: this neon chandelier by Matt Dilling, whose work has lit up Stella McCartney's storefront and Bergdorf Goodman's window installations. It’s made from five feet of triphosphor neon tubing—also used to treat seasonal affective disorder, because it mimics natural light—and a 20-by-24-inch model takes about a day to put together. The source of Dilling’s inspiration, appropriately enough, was a turn-of-the-last-century candelabra that could be fitted for bulbs, referencing “the conversion of one kind of lighting technology into another.”

US$2399 Available now at GNR8

On/Off lampshades

So simple, yet so cool.

These little shades are printed on both sides, so, when the lamp is off, you see one thing, but when it's on, you see the "real" thing.

Eight styles available.

US$19.99/set of three. Available now at gnr8.

Table Top Fireplace

For those of us without a fireplace, this table top oil burning lamp will give us the warmth we need on those winter nights. With its stainless steel logs, and slate base, this lamp is sleek, contemporary, and, best of all, portable.

$US329 Available now at GNR8

Match Lamp

This "museum piece" looks like a giant matchstick leaning against your wall. Made of a wooden stand and a plastic tip, the Match Lamp is truly an "enlightening" installation for your home. Comes with a red and a white tip.

$US189 Available now at GNR8

As a special introductory offer for gnr8/news readers, we're making the match lamp available, for a limited time only, for $US169

Airswitch 1

AIRSWITCH1 & AIRSWITCHTC NOW AVAILABLE AT GNR8

Designers: Mathmos Design Studio

The newest addition to the ever popular Mathmos London line of lights, the Airswitch 1 will be unveiled for the first time in North America at next week's Gift Fair in NY. It won't be available for sale in the US until March, and gnr8 will be among the first to stock it. Let us know if you want us to inform you when it arrives.

From the website:

Slowly pass your hand horizontally through the air above the Airswitch to turn it on or off. Slowly raise and lower your hand above Airswitch to brighten or dim.

It's like....magic....

light:night

Designer: Cameron Smith

This little night light does everything the big boys do: It's rechargeable (14 hours on a single charge), portable, safe indoors/outdoors, lights when the power fails, etc etc etc.

It also toggles from a colored glow (dim or strong) to lantern mode, perfect for those midnight kitchen runs.

And...it's totally cute.

US$49/1st lamp US$30/each additional
Available now at gnr8