The Lamp That Nine Artisans Built by Hand

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, does the opposite. These are lamps you stop in front of. Lamps you study. Objects that reward attention the longer you give them. The Amsterdam-based studio, founded by Pei-Ching Hsiao…

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The Lexon x Jeff Koons Collaboration Makes Functional Art Worthy to Adorn Your Living Room

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 and genuinely beautiful at the same time. Its speakers, lamps, and accessories carry a recognizable visual language: clean geometry, thoughtful materiality, the feeling that someone spent serious time thinking about…

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The 40-Year-Old Lamp That Still Looks Like the Future

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 that kind of piece. It is a ceiling-mounted light that borrows its entire visual logic from equal space dividers, the spring-loaded drafting tools that architects and engineers use to plot…

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nomo Project brings mindfulness to lighting design

nomo Project brings mindfulness to lighting design

Letong (Fiona) Xu is an Industrial and Product Designer working between China and Canada, known for her thoughtful approach that blends necessity, craftsmanship, and sensory experience. Her philosophy centers on the belief that design is not about immediate solutions or permanent outcomes, but a process of continual adjustment and subtle influence. This perspective is fully…

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