This Tiny Sunrise Alarm Clock Replaced My Phone, My Lamp, and My White Noise Machine
Imagine a small coastal diorama sitting on your nightstand, a sculpted seascape of rocky shores and a lone sailboat frozen in miniature, and then imagine…
Lighting
5 Lamps That Adjust Like Sunlight That Fix Your Circadian Rhythm To Keep Your Energy Up
Entering a space and feeling an instant sense of calm and energy shows the effect of biophilic design. In contemporary built environments, the lack of…
This 3D-Printed Lamp Has a Shell That Opens and Closes to Shape Light
The 3D printing community has spent years trying to prove that a printer can produce more than desk trinkets and cable organizers. Lighting has always…
The Lexon x Jeff Koons Collaboration Makes Functional Art Worthy to Adorn Your Living Room
Lexon has always operated in that precise zone where design meets desire, making objects that earn their place on a shelf by being genuinely useful…
Oberhauser’s Balloon Is the Most Beautiful Lamp Made of Concrete
The first time I came across the Oberhauser Balloon, I genuinely thought I was looking at a sea creature. That rough, porous sphere covered in…
A Copper-Wax Lamp Revives a Slovak Forge and Glows Like Stained Glass
Industrial heritage sites have a way of disappearing quietly. The machinery goes silent, the workers move on, and the buildings either get repurposed or left…
5 Clever Lighting Designs That Actually Deserve to Be the First Thing You Notice in a Room
Most rooms treat lighting as an afterthought. A fixture goes on the ceiling, a floor lamp fills a corner, and the result is illumination without…
These Marble Lamps Look Like They Were Literally Dipped in Light
There’s a quiet exhaustion in modern lighting design. Too many fixtures make a statement at the expense of the light itself, and too many others…
The 40-Year-Old Lamp That Still Looks Like the Future
Some design ideas are so quietly right that they take decades to find their full audience. Oliver Michl’s Architect’s Lamp from the 1980s is exactly…
Candy, Memory, and Light Melt Into Form in Marten Herma Anderson’s Lamps
Architectural and furniture designer Marten Herma Anderson draws from an unexpected source for his latest series of lamps, translating a fleeting childhood memory into a…
This Lamp Gets Its Glow From a Fashionable Collar Worn 400 Years Ago
The ambient lighting market keeps growing, and yet most table lamps still work the same way they always have: they point light directly at you…
The 100-Year-Old Light Bulb Design Just Got Its First Real Fix
We have been screwing the same shape of light bulb into our lamps for over a century. Think about that for a second. The smartphone…