Category: Desk lamp

Mountain Lamp

Paris based designer Leonard Kadid, who’s work has previously been featured on Minimalissimo with his Bookmark lamp, has also recently designed this minimal and delicate looking Mountain lamp.

This refined lamp with sharp lines is made of 0.7mm steel pieces, and is of course shaped like a mountain as its name suggests. It is illuminated by pulling on its thin blue wire.

A very efficient use of materials, resulting in a beautiful piece of design, which would perhaps fit well as a couple of bedside lamps.

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BE Light

BE Light is an LED desk lamp for reading, designed by QisDesign, who have perfectly described the concept to us:

With its clever hinge design, it can be fully extended to a height of 33.4 cm, and an angle of up to 135 degrees. It also provides adequate task lighting with white LED. When not in use, it can be folded down flat to a minimum height of 1.8 cm, taking up the least amount of space on a desk.

It is made of aluminium alloy, which provides a greatly refined metallic finish. Yet what I find the most striking is its slim form and lightness when you are using it and how easily you can flatten it when you wish for it to go unnoticed on your desk.

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Contour

This simple and clean-lined lamp concept has been conceived by Chicago based designer Jacob Nitz. The Contour desk lamp is comprised of a single tubular metal structure, bent into an ergonomic shape. Here is how designer describes his idea:

As though it were a contour line tracing into space, it was created by a single steel tube. The self-supporting structure utilizes a warm, white LED light strip in a pivotal armature allowing for versatile lighting options. 

I like that instead of hiding the cord, Nitz decided to accentuate it with colour. And because the lamp itself comes in black, gray, blue, green, and red, multiple colour combinations can be achieved.

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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.

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OTIS desk lamp

Seattle based Urbancase was founded on the philosophy of designing object that contribute to a simple lifestyle focusing on basic aesthetics and functionality. Driven by this philosophy they created the OTIS desk lamp.

OTIS is designed with the idea of reducing the number of moving parts while maintaining fully adjustable functionality. The powder coated steel base can be rotated to adjust the direction of the light, while the aluminum head gives you the ability to fine tune. You can easily move the feet to raise and lower the lamp.

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Loop

Finnish designer and co-founder of Aimo Design, Timo Niskanen has created the beautifully minimal Loop table lamp. The efficient loop shaped LED lamp is designed to stand the test of time by remaining classic and stately in its form. This lamp strongly reflects his philosophy on design:

We are surrounded with complicated and unnecessary things. I think a good product feels natural – it only bears the essential. A good designer creates an experience out of something simple and functional. An experience that is meaningful.

DMY International Design Festival in Berlin chose Finnish design as its theme this year, and so Niskanen’s Loop lamp was featured.  Although currently a prototype, the production of this lamp is surely imminent. Fantastic concept design.

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White collection

Ville Kokkonen designed for Artek the WHITE collection of four bright-light fitting, recently launched at the Milan International Furniture Fair and Lighting Exhibition 2011. WHITE is an outcome of Artek Studio’s in-depth research on the use of light fittings in domestic, office and public spaces.

In common light fittings, with their design and colour, are the stars on stage, and light gets sidelined. With WHITE Kokkonen wanted to bring a new perspective on how we perceive lighting. Now it is time for white light to take center stage!

The collection consists of BRIGHT WHITE 1 (a, light-therapy certified, bright light table lamp), WHITE 2 (a standing and wall light), WHITE 3 (a suspended light) and WHITE 4 (a table light).

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RIMA

With RIMA, by Germany based industrial designer Matthias Pinkert, one can now easily define the position and range of his desk illumination.

By sliding any of the rings, placed around the central tube, in horizontal direction one turns on and off the LEDs. Additionally one can adjust the angle of light, intensity and light color by rotating a secondary ring on the base ring. You can also switch on a second lightning area based on the same principles. By selecting a small light area one can simply reduce the energy consumption.

RIMA is awarded with a reddot design award in product design in 2010.

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Veio MWL

Veio MWL from Artemide manufacturer is a table standing luminaire for direct LED lighting.

Designed by Neil Poulton, it combines the advantages of LED technology with those of the My White Light (MWL) technology, enabling numerous variations of white light to be obtained, with different intensities and varieties of color temperature, producing all the tones of white light, from the warmest to the coldest.

The neat, essential and extremely minimal line is a modern revisiting of the desk lamp.

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Mantis Lamp

Mantis Lamp is a prototype LED designed by Moritz Böttcher and Sören Henssler. The compact nature of the LED Strips allows for the construction to be consisted of no more than a few wooden pieces and an aluminum tube. The light can adjust in height, and rotate continuously.

The lamp comes in two different color variations: black stained ash and maple white pigmented. The maple white definitely attracts my attention. Its airy, clean, and elegant composure is just something I would love to have sitting on my desk next to me. I also like the fact that, instead of trying to hide the wire with a white or neutral color, the designer chose to emphasize its presence by giving it a bright contrast.

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