Hanger Lamps

Creating pieces through reuse and recycling of materials is becoming more and more a trend, reflecting global concern about the waste generated by industrialization and human consumerism.

#1 Cascading Hanger is an installation by Iranian  Ali Siavoshi made from hundreds of illuminated wire hangers, creating an absolutely stunning environment.

#2 The designer Hector Serrano developed for Droog this Clothes Hanger Lamp, which can be personalized with your own pieces of clothing, creating a totally different lampshade and a new environment in accordance with the design and colour of your clothes.

#3 Lampe de Bureau is the name of this piece designed by the French designer  Pierre Lota, who created a project entitled "an object in a minute", where you can watch a video with him assembling this and other objects he created, in only a minute.

#4 Japanese designer Toshihito Okura from T&O Studio revaluates common objects of daily life envisaging new forms of use in demand for a positive environmental impact. These lamps use plastic hangers, with interior LED lighting smoothed through polycarbonate wires.

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#5 Two Korean designers from 101 design created two versions of lamps, a floor lamp and a pendant one, by recycling 48 coated wire hangers.

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#6 A young German designer,  Miriam Zink, created the 'light MI,' a pendant lamp which by fixing hangers around a bulb, results in an abstract form that when it lights provides interesting shadow effects on the ceiling.

#7 Exploring a similar concept,  Organelle Design, a small independent studio based in Vancouver, has designed two original pieces denominated Hangeliers through the reuse of wood or plastic hangers and bicycle rims.

#8 Inspired on the spiral motion, the Spiral Coat Hanger Lamp was created by young British designer  Natalie Sampson and presents itself as fun and full of movement, creating amazing contrasts of light and shadow.

#9 An innovative use of craft, in a unique combination of ethics, ethnic and ecology and its interconnection with contemporary lifestyle are the principles that moves these young Indian designers, from  Sarthak Sahil Projeto Co, in creating beautiful, functional and sustainable objects. Choori Lamp is inspired on how Indian women use clothes hangers to hang their traditional glass bangles. Their light creates beautiful and rich environments, full of colour and shading.

#10 If you are aDIY enthusiasts, The Greek Street Team provides an illustrated explanation of how to make a lamp with hangers, such as this, step by step.