The museum at Eldridge Street has commissioned artist Kiki Smith and architect Deborah Gans to create a new monumental east window for the 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue. The synagogue is located in New York City’s Lower East Side and is a national historic landmark.

Smih and Gans are working on a design that will include the Star of David against a field of blue stars.

The final window will be unveiled in spring of 2010.

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Siemens – together with multimedia artist Michael Pendry – has lighted up the world’s biggest revolving Christmas star. The lighting installation can be seen throughout December at the northern gateway to Munich – beginning at dusk every evening.

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Swedish studio Andreas Martin-Löf Architects have designed a lamp with a brass clamp for attaching it to shelves.

Called ‘A.M.L. Clamp Light’, the product was designed to use components produced by the studio’s Swedish suppliers.

One piece of folded brass supports the bulb socket, guides a bright blue flex and attaches the whole lamp to a surface.

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‘Chandelier Bulb’ by Kyouei Design is made from Pyrex (heat-resisting glass) and crystal glass.

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‘This ‘Cut Glasses Chandelier‘ by John Harrington Design has its roots in the past but its heart in the present.

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Dutch designer David Graas designed a lamp based on the light emissions from the Netherlands:

‘Lamp showing the light map of Holland. Where the light emission in Holland is high, the lamp shade is thinner and in places where the light emission is lower the lamp shade is thicker.

This results in a variety of light intensity in the lamp shade corresponding with the image you see when you would look at Holland from space during the night.

The lamp shade is produced with the Rapid Manufacturing technique in collaboration with TNO and De Hub.’