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A bright idea: the Plumen 001 Lightbulb wins the Design Award
The stylish Plumen 001 low energy lightbulb wins the best design of the year at the Brit Insurance Design Awards for its ability to bring the extraordinary to the ordinary
Of course, at this time of year we should be enjoying the last balmy days of summer, but as anyone who has spent the last month in London will tell you, the nights have been drawing in faster than you can say 'switch'.
Which, as the dark days of winter approach, is what inhabitat.com suggests you do with your lighting arrangements. Fiery, sculptural, twisted bulbs by designer Samuel Wilkinson and product design company Hulger are finally available for the masses to buy, having first shed light on the problem of how to make sustainable bulbs beautiful in 2008.
Follow link to inhabitat.com to read more about these innovative compact fluorescents.
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