From Izabella January 20, 2012
Maison Martin Margiela's elevates the simple lamp-from-a-bottle into an elegant lighting fixture. Here's how to make your own.
The Line 13 collection debuted at Milan's Salone del Mobile a while back, which inspired us to come up with a DIY budget version. To create your own lamp, find a pleasingly proportioned wine bottle and remove the top layer of the label so that only the white portion shows (the idea of the wine label, not the label itself, to mangle Wallace Stevens). You'll also need a lampshade and a lamp wiring kit, sources referenced below. For step-by-step instructions, see Make a Lamp from a Bottle at Instructables.
N.B.: For a more elegant solution, use a glass drill bit to drill a hole at the base of the bottle and run the cord through.
Above: Maison Martin Margiela's display at the Salone del Mobile. Image via Brilliante Interiors.
Above: A liqueur bottle is yet another option for the lamp base.
Above: Top the lamp with a simple white or black fabric shade (White Linen Drum Shade, $19.99; Black Linen Flat Lamp Shade, $24.99, both from Lamps Plus.) For the wiring, the Cork Stopper Lamp Kit ($17.94) is specifically designed to work with any standard wine bottle.
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Nice recycle item, but you did not explain how to make the hole for the cord in the base of the bottle....also, I think that it needs some ballest for stability, doesn't it?
I was wondering about how to make a hole in a glass bottle as well. You need an electric drill and the proper drill bit for glass cutting. I found this on youtube and it's pretty helpful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr5x63awf1c
If you look closely at the pictures, you'll see that in this DIY the cord extends out from the socket area and runs down the back of the outside of the bottle, which would explain the absence of instructions for drilling a hole at the bottom. I am personally not crazy about having the cord stick out near the socket, but it seems to me to be a better option than having it run though a transparent lamp base like this one. I see it done that way frequently in clear glass lamp bases available in stores, and I always feel that the cord distracts from the overall aesthetics of the lamp.
I've tried to cut the glass for art projects made out of wine bottles and it is very difficult. Plan to break a lot of bottles in the process. After trying, the cord out of the lamp socket appeals to me
BUT does the socket fit flush/snug to the top of the wine bottle and does not tilt once placed inside the bottle?? Does this call for any extra adhesive, etc.?
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