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JOHN BROWN is the editor of theslowhome.com and the founder of the Slow Home Movement. He is a registered architect, real estate broker and Professor of Architecture at the University of Calgary.
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Cast Glass Spheres
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14 Series
14 Series- Custom Pendant 1
14 Series - Custom pendant 2
14 Series - Detail 1
14 Series - Detail 2
14.25 - 25 Pendant Canopy
14.1 - Single Pendant
14.5 - Pendant Canopy
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14 Series
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Vancouver, Canada West
Bocci
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The 14 Series is a family of low voltage pendant lighting items designed to be clustered in groups. Each individual pendant is an articulated, seamed cast glass sphere with a frosted cylindrical void which houses a 10 Watt halogen light. Unlike most contemporary lighting, the 14 Series pendants are visually quite subtle in and of themselves - they do not dominate a room. Instead, the 14 series is designed for clustering - gaining tremendous strength when multiplied - the effect being of many tiny candles encased in floating spheres of water.
The light interacts with the imperfections, rifts, bruises and bubbles of the cast glass to make a visually rich halo of light. Cast glass is an organic process, hand crafted and imperfect by nature, so each piece produced is unique.
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We believe that our homes and neighborhoods should be healthy, vibrant places that uplift the spirit and gracefully fit our needs. We call for an end to poor construction, bad design, misleading marketing, unfair lending practices and environmental neglect in the housing industry. We acknowledge our collective responsibility to create CLOSE, SIMPLE, LIGHT places to live that leave a positive legacy for future generations.
provides design focused information that homeowners can use to improve the quality of how and where they live. It takes its name from the slow food movement which arose as a reaction to the processed food industry. The sprawl of cookie cutter housing that surrounds us is like fast food - standardized, homogenous, and wasteful. It contributes to a too fast life that is bad for us, our cities, and the environment. In the same way that slow food raises awareness of the food we eat and how these choices affect our lives, Slow Home empowers you to take more control of your home and improve the quality of how you live while reducing your environmental impact and futureproofing the long term investment value of your home.
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