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Relax in Peace and Quiet Under This Sound-Absorbing Lamp
You usually don’t expect a lamp to do much more than provide a little illumination and snazz up a room. But maybe it’s time you should. Monica Armani’s Silenzio lamps are made with sound-absorbing foam...
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This Crazy Giraffe Floor Lamp Could Be a Pixar Mascot
A floor lamp isn’t typically a place you’d expect to find a lot of personality, but this one showcased at the Milan furniture fair has plenty of it. You’d half expect to see it prancing around on...
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Greek Mythology Inspired the Loom-Like Arianna Lamp
In Greek mythology, Ariadne is known as the mistress of labyrinths. She’s also associated with weaving and in some traditions, she hanged herself. This jointed lamp – Baldessari’s Arianna — was...
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This Floor-to-Ceiling Lamp Marries Modern-Day Tech and Old School Design
Lamps can be pretty, but there are few quite as versatile as Konstantin’s Grcic’s OK Lamp. Both a ceiling fixture, but also kind of a floor lamp, its rotating LED panel can cover almost any possible...
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Make CMYK Shadow Puppets with This LED Lamp
It’s taken a while for the humble LED to gain a foothold in the broader consumer market—blame artisanal culture or simple force of habit, people love their cream-colored incandescent bulbs. But as the...
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A Rubberband Lamp Makes You the Designer, Too
The Delta Lamp lets you recapture the fun of rubber band balls from your days in school, without landing you in detention. Plus, it’s an outlet for all your creative energy. French designer Malet...
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Turn Any Empty Bottle Into a USB-Powered LED Touch Lamp
Got £16.50, a desperate desire to re-use garbage, and questionable taste? With Satechi’s new Touch USB LED lamp you can transform an empty soda bottle, wine bottle, even a water bottle into a warm...
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Edison Lamps: Vintage Look With Modern Tech
These Edison Lamps might harness modern LED technology, but they also capture the look of the era from which the lightbulb came. What a nice balance. Starting at £135, the lamps are totally...
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A Lamp Made of 200 Traffic Cones Is the World’s Craziest Hazard Light
Every little punk out there has stolen a traffic cone at one point or another and done something really stupid with it. You know who you are. The minds behind “Planet: Under Construction” (PUC), on the...
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Turn Off This Cordless, Motion-Sensing Lamp By Simply Knocking It Over
Even fans of extreme minimalism still need on and off switches—after all, what good is a beautiful lamp if it doesn’t work? Industrial Designer William Lee, though, has figured out how to banish the...
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Position These Lamps to Shine a Light on Corruption, or Just Anything
Some spaces are awkward. Dark corners or cavernous closets that could really use some light. And tap lights don’t always cut it in terms of brightness or aesthetic quality. But Australian designer...
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Super Mario Lamp Finally Makes the PaIn in My Life Worth It
There is no way my parents could have known what a world of pain they were dropping me in by simply giving me the name Mario. It was 1984, and Mario was my dad’s name. THEY COULD NOT HAVE KNOWN WHAT...
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8 Amazingly Clever Lamps Made From Plain Old Cardboard
Paper and extreme heat are never a good combination. Yet the following eight designers have made it work, creating lamps that are light, inexpensive, and less wasteful than traditional versions....
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A Soft Squishy Lamp You Can Cram Anywhere (Even Under Your Head)
No one wants to be told what they can and cannot do in their home, even when it comes to lamps. So someone has finally found a way to stick it to ‘big lighting’ with a lamp that you can install almost...
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An LED Lamp That Recognises Your Gestures: No Jedi Powers Required
Good news Star Wars fans. The automatic sliding doors in shops are no longer your only opportunity to experience what life as a Jedi must be like. Dresden, Germany based design shop Dreiplus has a new...
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This Lamp Looks Like It’s Made From Meccano
The Construction Lamp by Joost van Bleiswijk is a tribute to industrial structures — and as a result it looks rather like its made from the Meccano you played with as a child. Designed by van Bleiswijk...
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Clever Docks That Turn Your iPhone’s Flash Into a Bedside Lamp
By now our smartphones have become a constant bedside companion for most of us. But Shay Alkalay and Yael Mer over at the London-based Raw Edges Design Studio have come up with a way to make them more...
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Check Out These Vintage Cameras Turned Into Handsome Lamps
Now that film is almost obsolete, you’re probably wondering what to do with that beautiful old Minolta taking up precious space in your desk drawer. Well, have you ever considered building furniture...
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Lamps Made From Real Bread Must Smell Delicious
There’s no incense, air freshener, or scented candle on earth that smells as good as freshly baked bread. So turning a loaf into a warm glowing lamp that probably smells amazing is worthy of some kind...
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This Magical Table’s Electromagnetic Field Turns on Nearby Light Bulbs
Hold a fluorescent light bulb near this table, and the filament will suddenly flicker on. It looks like magic, but it’s simple science: An embedded circuit produces an electromagnetic field that acts...
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