The Beat That My Heart Skipped – A blog dedicated to daily design inspirations. By Rohini Wahi.

New York lighting brand Apparatus’ lighting collection is created using vintage lighting fixtures, aged brass, painted glass and natural materials . I love their poetic use of the utilitarian and the delicate.

I feel like there is a shift in interiors where homeware is beginning to gravitate towards the transient and alchemical… using delicate materials and ethereal finishes.

An example that I can’t get out of my head is a series of delicate mirrors by Dutch designer David Derksen. Called Transcience the project shows the beauty of the natural oxidizing process of mirrors. By accelerating and manipulating this process, the mirrors show various stages of oxidation in three different geometrical patterns. Depending on the time that the silver is reacting with sulphur, different colour tones can be achieved, ranging from gold to brown, to purple to blue. I love the silhouettes and ghostly outlines…

Wow, how lovely are these vessels from Andrea Walsh? The bottom of each one looks alive and glistening with the slopping about of luscious wet paint, but in fact what we see is glass.

Andrea works with bone china clay combined with paper to create vessels containing glass which is cast directly inside the piece, emulating liquid contained within the form. The glass is meant to resemble water in its stillness and calm. My favourite are the paper cones which look like they are about to ooze out the glass/liquid any second – such a unique concept!

Delicate and playful glass vessels illustrated by Japanese artist Shinzi Katoh at Shelf…

These strange and beautiful creations are by designer Anna Ter Haar of the Netherlands. Titled ‘Cinderella’s Chair, the project involves blowing the glass directly onto the severed leg of each chair. Although delicate seeming the chairs are actually very sturdy to sit on despite their fragile appearance. Wonderful!