French designer Matali Crasset created this hanging Court Circuit lamp that embraces its function as its form. It’s made from raw undisguised circuit boards embedded with LEDs, but since they’re arranged like petals on a blooming flower, there’s still an organic feel to its design.
It might look like it claimed the lives of an entire drawer full of barbecuing tools, but Tom Dixon’s simple Stamp Lamp actually starts life as a boring flat sheet of zinc-coated steel.
As long as it doesn’t require any additional effort, people seem happy to embrace eco-friendly ideas. So to free people from having to remember to turn a light off when it’s not needed, Randy Sarafan created this handy lamp that turns off automatically whenever you close your eyes.
Since buildings are already engineered to be strong and, you know, not collapse, suspending even the heaviest of chandeliers from the ceiling is no problem. That’s to say there’s no rhyme or reason why a hanging light needs to be made from lightweight carbon fibre, except that it’s just plain beautiful.
Netherlands-based Studio Mango has designed a clever collection of lamps made to ship in a super flatpack, using lucite coil springs and Lego-like bricks.
We usually cringe when we see a lovely piece of hardware that’s been cannibalized for the sake of another device. But that’s not the case with Classified Moto’s lovely lamps which are only made from spare motorcycle parts.
You don’t often think of a large decorative chandelier as being a bona-fide gadget. But the hanging veins on Denise Hachinger’s Kronleuchter — or crown light — raise and lower at your beckoning to focus the light or cast an ambient glow in the room.
When design shop Troika was called upon to create a series of unique chandeliers for the Royal Society of Arts‘ headquarters in London, instead of engineering some hanging crystal monstrosity, they created a subtle fixture that barely exists when the lights are off.