KAWS LIGHTBULBS !

KAWS LIGHTBULB FOR THE STANDARD HOTEL.

It's rare that we post up "product" related to street and urban art, and vinyl toys for that matter. However, this couldn't go without comment. No doubt it will have it's "selling out" detractors, but that would be missing the point of just how genius we think this is. A truly brilliant concept that for us, transcends most "urban" product that has gone before it.

Re-inventing the lightbulb ! No mean feat and shows just how ubiquitous the XX has become.

These could quite easily have been a one off stand alone conceptual art piece that would have slotted into numerous high end art exhibitions, the fact they're an affordable consumable object of desire in a limited edition of 1000 only add's to their relevance. Move over Haring and Koons.

PRESS RELEASE

The Standard's series of artist editions continues with Brooklyn-based artist, KAWS. This is a limited, but non-numbered edition of 1,000 sets that contain 3 bulbs each, of one bulb in each color: red, purple and green.

The 3 watt bulbs have a warm low glow. Dimensions of each globe is about 4.75" x 2.25" and they screw into any standard incandescent fixture. We love how they look on a light string using multiple sets. The bulbs are individually boxed with a KAWS and The Standard sticker and then wrapped again in an outer box that holds all three, also co-branded.

From Kaws
“I love The Standard and the different projects they have been doing” shares KAWS, “when invited to create something I wanted to redesign something basic that could be found in every hotel room in the world so we decided to make a light bulb.”

Available from Standard Hotels from today