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Eight Unconventional Lighting Designs

This article highlights eight unique lighting designs that challenge traditional aesthetics and functionality, utilizing unconventional materials and forms.

City Girls, a London-based studio, creates lamps from salvaged items like fibreglass boats and old toys, naming each unique piece.

Baguette Studio's Le Labo 1.0 features lampshades made of pure wax that can be melted and remolded, questioning object ownership.

Wretched Flowers uses woven stainless steel chainmail, embellished with beads and gemstones, to create armor-like lighting, including a floor lamp inspired by the Flowerpot lamp.

Billy Easter's Gel Lamp is a silicone cube where colored gels can be inserted to change the lamp's hue.

The Bic Lamp, a collaboration between Mario Paroli and Seletti, is a pendant light shaped like an oversized Bic Cristal ballpoint pen.

Fused, by Audra Grays and Maxim Lester, is a desk lamp constructed from glassmaking offcuts and metalwork scraps.

Andu Masebo's A4 Lamp is made from three pieces of galvanized sheet steel that can be disassembled to fit inside an A4 envelope. Simon Skinner's Buké Lamps are assembled from charity shop finds like bowls and figurines, sandblasted for a unified appearance.

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