Comments on: Bookmark lamp by Léonard Kadid http://www.dezeen.com/2011/01/03/bookmark-lamp-by-leonard-kadid/ architecture and design magazine Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: EvK http://www.dezeen.com/2011/01/03/bookmark-lamp-by-leonard-kadid/comment-page-1/#comment-650675 EvK Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:08:52 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/?p=109675#comment-650675 It's good. absolute formal and material minimalism (+wood=good). the lamp is a reading light (so, it needs books). everybody has more than one book (with nice covers). big up. It's good.

absolute formal and material minimalism (+wood=good).
the lamp is a reading light (so, it needs books).
everybody has more than one book (with nice covers).

big up.

]]> By: Julie http://www.dezeen.com/2011/01/03/bookmark-lamp-by-leonard-kadid/comment-page-1/#comment-645123 Julie Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:31:26 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/?p=109675#comment-645123 Fizz, I don't deny the practicality or usefulness of an ordinary lamp's base, but that doesn't mean there isn't room for whimsical, poetic statements like this one. Nice job, Leonard. Fizz, I don't deny the practicality or usefulness of an ordinary lamp's base, but that doesn't mean there isn't room for whimsical, poetic statements like this one. Nice job, Leonard.

]]> By: leonard http://www.dezeen.com/2011/01/03/bookmark-lamp-by-leonard-kadid/comment-page-1/#comment-632516 leonard Fri, 07 Jan 2011 02:32:03 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/?p=109675#comment-632516 I badly expressed myself, The real concept of this lamp was not to delete the base, it does have one. It was to propose a product without base, to save material and to let people choosing their own (a book they would have already read with a cover they like). I wrote "to delete the common and -useless- base" implying "useless in the function of lighting a book". The purity of the shape is made to express the essential. About the book to use, it is a secondary book, used as a base. I badly expressed myself,
The real concept of this lamp was not to delete the base, it does have one.
It was to propose a product without base, to save material and to let people choosing their own (a book they would have already read with a cover they like).
I wrote "to delete the common and -useless- base" implying "useless in the function of lighting a book". The purity of the shape is made to express the essential.
About the book to use, it is a secondary book, used as a base.

]]> By: Timian http://www.dezeen.com/2011/01/03/bookmark-lamp-by-leonard-kadid/comment-page-1/#comment-631367 Timian Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:01:35 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/?p=109675#comment-631367 @ leonard: "The real concept of this lamp is to delete the common and -useless- base usually needed to stabilize a table lamp." With all due respect, that's a pretty silly sentiment. How useless can the base be when the owner of this lamp has to provide their own? This lamp hasn't obviated the need for a base, it's only deferred responsibility on who provides it. Carrying this design theme even further, if we're to randomly declare functional components redundant, why not design a lamp with no light output? We could design a stand with a flat pedestal on the top where the eventual owner could place one of their own repurposed lamps to serve as the light source. Design rebellion! @ leonard:

"The real concept of this lamp is to delete the common and -useless- base usually needed to stabilize a table lamp."

With all due respect, that's a pretty silly sentiment. How useless can the base be when the owner of this lamp has to provide their own? This lamp hasn't obviated the need for a base, it's only deferred responsibility on who provides it.

Carrying this design theme even further, if we're to randomly declare functional components redundant, why not design a lamp with no light output? We could design a stand with a flat pedestal on the top where the eventual owner could place one of their own repurposed lamps to serve as the light source. Design rebellion!

]]> By: Fizz Fieldgrass http://www.dezeen.com/2011/01/03/bookmark-lamp-by-leonard-kadid/comment-page-1/#comment-631220 Fizz Fieldgrass Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:11:42 +0000 http://www.dezeen.com/?p=109675#comment-631220 OK - I'm trying to get my head round this: a SERIOUS(!) discussion on what book to use for this product (an 'active' or 'passive' one); the suggestion that a lamp's base is a 'useless' component as opposed to an integral part of a table lamp's structure... either I'm losing it or the world's gone mad. How much cleverer I wonder to consider the stabilising part of a table or desk lamp as part of the overall design but to do so in such a minimalist way as to almost 'disguise' its function while using minimal materials? And do I really want, when setting up the lamp or moving it to another place, to be bothered about finding a volume of suitable weight and dimensions to do a job that I would have thought should have been a built-in function of the object in question in the first place? This is a QA item a step too far but then I'm just an old reactionary who's too steeped in practicalities to appreciate such whimsy... OK – I'm trying to get my head round this: a SERIOUS(!) discussion on what book to use for this product (an 'active' or 'passive' one); the suggestion that a lamp's base is a 'useless' component as opposed to an integral part of a table lamp's structure… either I'm losing it or the world's gone mad. How much cleverer I wonder to consider the stabilising part of a table or desk lamp as part of the overall design but to do so in such a minimalist way as to almost 'disguise' its function while using minimal materials? And do I really want, when setting up the lamp or moving it to another place, to be bothered about finding a volume of suitable weight and dimensions to do a job that I would have thought should have been a built-in function of the object in question in the first place? This is a QA item a step too far but then I'm just an old reactionary who's too steeped in practicalities to appreciate such whimsy…

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