Dezeen Wire: design critic Alice Rawsthorn describes how the famous Arco lamp by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni has become a cliché for precisely the reasons that made it great - New York Times
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Lighting
"When cliché grows out of distinction"
Scraplights by
Graypants
Movie: Ross Lovegrove on his Solar Tree
at Clerkenwell Design Week
Movie: British designer Ross Lovegrove talks to Dezeen about the tree-like solar-powered street lights he brought to St John's Square for Clerkenwell Design Week. More »
Hallo Light
by 45 Kilo
Tekiō by
Anthony Dickens
London designer Anthony Dickens has created a snaking, modular lighting system made of bamboo and paper (+ movie). More »
IN-EI by Issey Miyake for Artemide
Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake has created a range of LED lamps for Italian lighting company Artemide that unfold from flat 2D shapes into 3D shades. More »
New Pinterest board: lamps
This week we've created a Pinterest board with all the best images of lamps from Dezeen. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest »
Designed in Hackney: chandeliers
by Stuart Haygarth
Designed in Hackney: these chandeliers by Hackney designer Stuart Haygarth were painstakingly assembled from found objects like discarded spectacles, plastic bottles or party-poppers. More »
Future Self by rAndom International,
Wayne McGregor and Max Richter
Interactive designers rAndom International have created a lighting installation that can map and replicate human movement. More »
Designed in Hackney: Josiah pendant light
by Terence Woodgate
Designed in Hackney: continuing this week's focus on Shoreditch design company SCP, here's the Josiah pendant lamp by Terence Woodgate, first created in 2008. More »
Styrene by Paul Cocksedge
Designed in Hackney: here's another design classic from the London borough of Hackney - Paul Cocksedge's pendant lamp made from heat-shrunk plastic cups. More »
Marble Lights by Studio Vit
Milan 2012: Stoke Newington designers Studio Vit showed these glass lamps with marble cuffs as part of Salone Satellite at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile this month. More »
Magnetic Bike Lights by Copenhagen Parts
These magnetic bicycle lights by Copenhagen Parts turn on as soon as they come into contact with the steel frame. More »
CONST lamp by THINKK studio
at Ventura Lambrate
Milan 2012: Bangkok designers THINKK studio have created a lamp that slots together like a children's toy. More »








