The Lamp That Nine Artisans Built by Hand
Most lamps disappear into a room. They’re functional, fine, forgettable. The new collection from Taiwan-Lantern, shown this week at ICFF during NYCxDESIGN in New York,…
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A 3D-Printed Lamp That Finally Makes Sustainability Look Great
Most lamps do one thing. They sit on your desk, light your space, and get buried under the slow-moving chaos of charger cables and forgotten…
Milan 2026’s Most Interesting Chandelier Is Named After a Computer
Milan Design Week 2026 was, by most accounts, a fair deeply in love with the handmade. Craft, texture, labour, and the visible trace of human…
Lexon Turned Jeff Koons’ Most Famous Sculpture Into The Coolest Statement Lamp You Can Actually Own
Transforming Jeff Koons’ Balloon Dog into a fully functional lamp required more than good intentions and a licensing agreement. For French design/tech atelier Lexon, more…
Woven by Hand in the Philippines, Sold in Milan
Most lamps just sit there. They do their job, emit their light, and fade into the background of a room. Mirei Monticelli’s lamps are the…
Su Yang Choi Made a Glowing Lamp From Seaweed, Paprika, and Gardenia
Sustainable design has spent years negotiating an awkward identity crisis. The moment a material gets labeled biodegradable or plant-based, it tends to be filed under…
Alberto Essesi Just Designed the Lamp That Celebrates Mistakes
If you’ve ever assembled furniture, built a shelf, or wired anything with your own two hands, you know the feeling. You step back, you look…
This 4-in-1 Hands-free Flashlight Clips To Clothes, Snaps to Your Phone, and Stands on Its Own
A Red Dot Design Award and a $210,000 Kickstarter campaign are two very different kinds of validation. One comes from a jury of design professionals…
This AC Does 5 Jobs at Once and Looks Like Furniture on Your Wall
The split air conditioner is one of the least loved objects in any home, which is a strange thing to say about something most people…
Burning Man 2026 Built a 300-Ring Light Tower You Have to Earn
One person shouting into an empty desert doesn’t build much of anything. But what happens when thousands of voices gather around a 12-meter tower made…
This Sculptural Lamp Treats Light as Secondary and its Decorative Shell as Primary
Floor lamps typically exist in your peripheral vision. They illuminate a corner, frame a reading chair, or cast ambient light from behind the couch, and…
This Lamp Finally Belongs on a Bookshelf Because It Looks Like a Book
Reading lamps have always had a tension with the spaces they occupy. The ones bright enough to actually read by tend to be too harsh…