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Mid-winter blahs make innovative ideas hard to come by. If the proverbial light bulb floating above your head is in dire need of a wattage boost, this light-bulb lamp ($120) might be the mothership you’ve been waiting for. Its fusion of style-and-substance energy casts a clever glow on functional design. Offered by London-based design collective, Suck UK, and available at Grand (374 Somerville Avenue, Somerville, 617.623.2429), this oversized wooden bulb is the brainchild of acclaimed designer Barend Hemmes, the creative mind behind numerous furniture and interior-arts projects, and a ridiculously sexy, custom motorcycle for Jaguar. It’s made of laser-cut strips of reclaimed plywood meticulously pieced together to reate a curvaceous grid and eerily web-like shadows, depending on where you place it. Huge (by lamp standards, anyway), but surprisingly lightweight, this bulb can be suspended from the ceiling as a pendant, hung from a wall hook, or casually propped in a corner. Try simply resting it on a flat, elevated surface where it will work double duty as table lamp and décor — an objet d’art to inspire conversation and contemplation. How’s that for a bright idea?
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Once those creative juices are flowing, jettison that iPhone notes tool and go retro by recording your precious nuggets on good oldfashioned parchment. Field Notes are pocketsized, slim volumes, with 48 pages of grid-patterned paper waiting to be scribbled on with dreams and doodles. These little books, with Futura typeface and a circa 1920s format, look like they were unearthed in grandpa’s workshop, and they’ve garnered a dedicated following. Feeling especially inspired? Field Notes are sold in handy packs of three. Pick up a set ($10) at Grand.
