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“A Glue Gun and A Dream” By Joyce Walder October 1, 2008
LAUREN CHAPMAN, 24, is a first-year graduate student at the Yale University school of architecture. Graduate school does not allow time for holding a job, she says, but her taste for expensive things seems to increase daily. Her design solutions, though, are inexpensive and witty. When she decided a few weeks ago that she wanted a headboard (left), she Googled images of elaborate, traditional designs, bought two sheets of chipboard, drew a headboard and cut it out with a laser cutter at school. Her light bulb candle holder came out of an assignment to make a centerpiece with recycled materials when she was at the University of Memphis last year. “It’s meant to be beautiful more than functional,” said Ms. Chapman, who used defunct bulbs. “I also saw it as pretty ironic: the idea of the light bulb that doesn’t work, holding up the candles.” How was it made? “You very carefully hold a light bulb on the metal end and saw the bottom” of that end off, she said. “Then I used a screwdriver to break out the insides,” and glued the bulbs together with a hot glue gun. In a sense, the candles don’t work either: she’s never lighted them. “I really meant it to be a commentary piece,” Ms. Chapman said. “I was inspired by the news, the discussion about incandescent bulbs being banned. Their imminent redundancy was appealing to me: What can we do with all these light bulbs? How can I use these things which are so beautifully crafted, but last only a very short time?” More Articles in Home & Garden » A version of this article appeared in print on October 2, 2008, on page F7 of the New York edition.
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