Bookmark Lamp
The Bookmark lamp, created by Paris based designer Léonard Kadid, is actually only half a lamp, because it uses your book as a base. This refined piece is made of ultra thin plywood and fitted with a simple LED stripe. The details are seamlessly merged together, creating one fluid shape. The lamp is light, flexible and, thanks to its interactive nature, beautifully personal. Your choice of a book becomes part of the design statement.
Baseless lamp also means there are no unnecessary material and manufacturing costs. As any true minimalist piece, it is smart. Not just a pretty face.
- 16.09.2011 .
- Natalia Repolovsky .
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- Category:
- Industrial design
- Object:
- Desk lamp
- Designer:
- Léonard Kadid
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- 6 comments
so nice!!!….
Its nice looking but I don’t see it being very functional. The book looks like it becomes the base to support it…does this stand freely without the book? Also I think the cord coming out the front of it would be really awkward in real world use.
The shape is great, and I love the strip of LED lights. Also not too keen on the cable coming out from the front though.
I don’t find this very minimalistic – maybe aesthetically, but not in function.
For me it seems quite demanding, that two books are need, to read one. What I find appealing in minimalist design is that it’ll work alone and is simple to work WITH, this is neither.
I do like the cord coming out in the front however. This makes the whole lamp, with cord, become a more minimal form.
I don’t know about this thing. I find it a beautiful and pleasing shape and the way the cord comes out just at it is which I think is just right. But needing a book (or something heavy) just to keep up the lamp seems like it is missing an essential element.
I wonder, the way they integrated the cord and leds can’t they integrate something heavy in the base as well?
On the other hand, I must admit always having many books beside my bedside table so as such it would work anyway.
love it, this is just genius.