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Kurrency: A lamp made out of dollar bills

By Core Jr - December 23, 2008

in Object Culture

Stuart Karten Design has created a piece of discursive design sure to hit home during these fiscally-obsessed months. Kurrency Chandeliers are hanging lamps are made out of paper money, available in dollars, euros, and pesos (no Monopoly version, yet). Here's the part you can take to the bank:

As US taxpayers become the owners of the economy's most toxic investments and the stock market continues its volatile plunges and surges, many Americans are tempted to store their money under the mattress. But we've devised a better idea: hanging your money above the dining room table.

Kurrency is a new series of chandeliers made from genuine legal tender. "In today's economy, there is perhaps nothing so beautiful as cold hard cash," designer Stuart Karten says of the chandelier's materials. "But money is beautiful not just because of what it buys. Bills from all cultures display intricate artwork, unique textures and, most importantly, a beautiful translucency under light."