Fantasy Appliance

 

    For the Fantasy Appliance project, I chose to focus on this lamp. It took several trips to thrift stores to find just what I wanted but the detail of this lamp and those around it called out to me. 

This is one of my first sketches. I am not super content with it so I will continue to refine the lamp and all the little details. I think as far as the overall shape goes, I got pretty close. I just need to add more contours and smaller details. 

 

I think for my overall fantasy appliance concept, I want to make a lamp "forest" utilizing my first lamp sketch, along with other lamps and trying to mesh them with trees.  I think the concept has worked well so far since the shapes are similar and they mesh well together. I think I want to use mainly pine trees or similar trees for this "forest". 

This is my latest rendition of my tree lamp and so far it's going pretty well. Right now I am trying to figure out how to get a light to emanate out of the shade, which is the top part of a tree called the umbrella pine! I really want to develop this concept more and mess around with the base of a lamp too, to see if it will mesh better with a forest ground. I think if I just add it in as is it will look very strange and out of place. 

    

    This is the final iteration of my fantasy appliance and I decided to make a sort of "green energy" sort of lamp. I was inspired by some articles I had read about green energy and monitoring one's electricity use so I decided to apply it to this project. It ended up being a lot simpler than a forest of lamp-trees but I am still pleased with the result. However, this was a last-minute decision so. feel like I didn't get enough time to flesh it out like I wanted to. I can only imagine what a room of plant/lamp hybrids would look like.