Design Miami: the Eiffel Tower is reimagined as a bronze table lamp by Belgian artists Studio Job, who also present an upside-down Taj Mahal table at Design Miami this week.
The Tour Eiffel lamp is made from patinated bronze and features a polished bronze lampshade fixed to the bent peak of the tower.
Studio Job's Job Smeets explained his inspiration for the piece: "While having a summer lunch with Loic and Julien of Carpenters [Workshop Gallery] on the top of Centre Pompidou I had this amazing view of the Tour Eiffel and dreamt about my bohemian life in Paris back in the Nineties. You know, when the world was young and Tour Eiffel was my best friend and close neighbour. Anyway, somewhere between entrée and main the guys commissioned a lamp. One thing led to another!"
The Taj Mahal table, also made from patinated and polished bronze, flips the Indian landmark on its head so that it rests on its four corner turrets.
Carpenters Workshop Gallery is showing both pieces at Design Miami this week, where Dezeen will be reporting on all the best designs and installations – see all our stories from Design Miami.
We've already published a collection of photosensitive vases by design duo Glithero launching in Miami this week.
Other projects by Studio Job on Dezeen include a studded plastic chair for design brand Moooi and the studio's solo show at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands last year.
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Photographs of the lamp are by P. Laarhoven and photographs of the table are by Carpenters Workshop Gallery.
Is this a joke?
So tacky! :-P
Mmm. Nice. Post-modern product design. Very nice. Really?
Love how the sketch says "easy to accept".
It's actually quite pretty. Can't say the same about the Taj Mahal though.
Do Athena shops still exist?
They are trapped by their own success – but there are worse things to be trapped in :)
These are quirky and nice :)
I can’t believe how Dezeen posted this. Really, I am surprised, it is so mediocre and ordinary.
The table is kinda cool in a neo-Victorian kind of way, but WTF were they thinking with that lamp?
Studio Job rules!
The lamp reminded me of those little Eiffel Tower key-rings made in China, but I like how the main structure is made. The whole concept I don’t.
Such great designs! Fun to see the world as upside down and twisted as it is.
Beautifully made: architecture as sculpture!
How do you come up with such an idea for this Tour Eiffel? Brilliant!
I really love the Taj Mahal!
Now I’m definitelly unsubscribing.