Liu Mingzhu didn't expect his gourd lamps would be popular with netizens, but it seems they are. Growing up in the Lianchi district of Baoding, Hebei province, the 59-year-old works at a local ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some people carve gourds. Polish artist Przemek Krawczyński transforms them into high-end pieces of art. Using round calabash ...

We normally associate gourds with fall and Thanksgiving centerpieces. The curly squash, usually in oranges and greens, fill baskets around the USA, decorating doorsteps, porches and interiors.

Originally an engineer, Krawczyński started making calabash lamps after he came across the gourd fruit in 2009. The calabash is a vine grown for its gourd fruits that can be harvested when mature, ...

Hey waiter, there's a gourd on my end table! Yep, the new shape for your lamp base should be bulbous, curvy, blobby. And just when you had tracked down that perfectly facetted crystal stem in a second ...