This hair lamp is a customizable lamp -- you create the style! Photo: Anika Engelbrecht
Strange and hair-raising lighting designs for your home.
I always laugh when someone puts a wig on an inanimate object, or animal like a dog or horse. It's just plain funny. So, you can imagine how I chuckled when I saw these hair-covered lamps. However, I don't think these particular designs were created for laughs.
Frisa (at right) is a customizable floor lamp created by German designer Anika Engelbrecht. Engelbrecht did not design this lamp a toy, but I can't help but be remided of the Barbie Stylin' head I had when I was a little girl.
I had such a blast painting her face and braiding her hair, even when I discovered the hard way that if you decide to give Stylin' Barbie bangs, her hair doesn't grow back. I'm sure that isn't what Anika envisioned when she designed it, but I can't stop thinking about how much fun it would be to braid and style this lamp's hair. What can I say? I'm a girl.
Don't see the connection? Take a peek at the "styled" lamp after the jump:
Braid it, tease it -- even give it pig tails! Photos: Anika Engelbrecht
Back in March of 2009, Adler transformed a 3,500-square-foot Malibu beach house into a real Barbie dream home in honor of the doll's 50th birthday. In the living room a two-tiered chandelier made of blond Barbie-like hair hung proudly above a pair of black leather couches.
Barbie immortalized in chandelier form by Jonathan Adler. Photos: LAist / Jonathan Adler
- Prickly pear chair
- Egg-shaped home office
Reader comments (Page 1 of 1)
all I can say is UGLY UGLY UGLY.....
ReplyCan you say "Cousin Itt"?
ReplyHow ignorant are these people? Don't they know that's what the Natzi's did with the hair of their victims and their skin!!! Sick people.
ReplyBe great if your the adams family.
ReplyThe dumbest thing I've ever seen...They must have been really bored...Actually it's disgusting...gross...do they have to wash their lamps...hahahahehehehhe...dumb
ReplyA little too Holocaust for me....
Replyed geine the serrial killer made furniture and lamps out of body parts
GROSS!!--Except for maybe those stinkin hair fethists! And what a waste for those poor children suffering through chemo treatment who cannot afford wigs who would get them from donated hair from Locks of Love. SHAMEFULL!!!!
Replycouzinn it
ReplyActually, in a way, it's sorta sexy to see beautiful hair everywhere in a room.
ReplyI just don't see how making a lamp out of some woman's hair is sick, or gross. My girlfriends and I think it's sort of exciting. Hair's not a body part. It's an innanimate object, like a hat, or a book. It's not like you're shrinking some womans head to make a trophy, or mounting some woman's head on the wall like a trophy. That would be gruesome. This is just hair that used to be on some woman's head and now it's a decorative lamp. Hair's not a body part like an arm or a leg, so I don't see why this is being compared to Nazi's....maybe just because some German woman made the first hair lamp.
ReplyLong hair is sexy, and what else are you gonna do with it once it's been cut off? I'm a girl and I think it's sorta fun.
Hi, I'm a young girl and I think it would be fun to have human hair lamps and maybe even a human hair rug in my house. What's wrong with it? It's just hair, but beautiful hair. Once hair is shaved off a woman's head, why not make a lamp or whatever out of it? It's not the same as the nazis. They killed women and children and used their body parts. But women willingly let their heads be shaved for this hair shown in these photos. It's not like the women were scalped.
ReplyI think it's funny, like it's funny if you put a long haired wig on a deer head mounted on the wall, or if you put a long haired wig on a manequin's head. It's just hair.