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…
Lighting
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…
MJ Fraser Just Turned His Childhood Garden Into Living Light
Most lamps get designed around a concept. MJ Fraser designed his around a memory. His Trees From The Garden collection started not with a mood…
Preciosa To Make Light Feel Like a Living Thing at Milan 2026
Light has always been design’s most underrated material. We talk endlessly about furniture, textiles, and surfaces, but light? It usually plays the supporting role, the…
BằNG Just Dropped a Lamp That Looks Like a Living Cloud
Most lamps exist to be useful. A few exist to be beautiful. Almost none manage to feel like they’ve captured an actual atmospheric phenomenon and…