Product news: Tel Aviv designer Nir Meiri has created a set of table lamps with metal shades hanging from thin stalks.

The Spot table lamp by Nir Meiri comes in two versions: one with a metal base and the other with a concrete base.

The shades are attached to the stems by flexible cables. Inside the shade are LED bulbs.

We previously featured a set of standing lights made from desert sand by the same designer.

Other concrete lamps we've featured include a lamp shaped like a military listening device and a wood and concrete desk lamp by Benjamin Hubert – see all our stories about lamps.

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Competition: we've teamed up with Israeli design brand Monkey Business to offer readers the chance to win one of five silver pencil sharpeners by Noam Bar Yochai that resemble clockwork keys. 

Congratulations to the winners! Federico Guidotto in Italy, Jean-Marc Commenge in France, Hrvoje Skender in Croatia, Carla Sulaiman in Australia and Adeleh Nejati in the USA all won a Turnkey pencil sharpener from Monkey Business.

Instead of turning the pencil in the sharpener, users hold the pencil still and twist the cast-metal key. It's also available from Monkey Business in bright red.

We recently featured a set of pins produced by Monkey Business that can be stuck onto wine corks to create animal toys at the dinner table.

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Each kit contains the required limbs and features to make one of six characters, although all the parts can be interchanged to create whatever kind of strange menagerie you want.

The range includes a monkey, deer, buffalo, bear, bunny and crow.

See more stories about animals on Dezeen here.

See more stories about cork here.

Here's a tiny bit of text from the designers:

An original addition to the wine bottle you bring to dinner.

A design collaboration between Monkey Business and Reddish Studio.

Bring your dinner party and your bottle corks to life with these cute, collectable animal parts.

Each pack includes the body parts required for one Corker.

Available in 6 designs: Monkey, Deer, Buffalo, Bear, Bunny & Crow.

Cork not included.

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The joints of this handcrafted task light by Israeli industrial designer Asaf Weinbroom comprise strips of walnut veneer clamped round the oak base and head.

Above and top: Brown

The lamp is part of a series of four designs combining wood with brass, copper and Corian that Weinbroom presented at an exhibition called Fervency during Jerusalem design week last month.

Above: Giben

Giben has a flat baton in the middle like a wooden ruler joined by two wooden disks - one in light wood to match the stem and the other in a darker tone to match the base.

The Corian Bra lamp (above) features copper arms with the joints, head and clamp in Corian, while the Long light (below) has a clamp that's simply a wooden rod inside a brass tube.

To see more works of Asaf Weinbroom click here.

Above: Long

We published last week another story about Mantis table lamp by bottcherhenssler for vertigo bird.

Above: Long

Photographs are by Gilad Langer.

Above: Long

Here are more details by Asaf Weinbroom:

I chose to design a series of table lamps because a table lamp is the most intimate lamp physically closest to the person using it.

Above: Long

In addition there are plenty of options for technical Joints and movement which were always a great source of inspiration for me.

Above: Corian Bra

For the Jerusalem design week exhibition "Fervency" currated by Tal Gur last month, I chose to design a series of four table lamps.

Above: Corian Bra

The series show tests and experiments of technologies, mechanisms and surprising combinations between wood and various materials.

Above: Corian Bra

Brown - adjustable table lamp with laminated veneer hinges casing the base and head of the lamp. Materials: White Oak and Walnut wood

Above: Giben

Giben is a playful table lamp with a childish appearance. Two axes allow the tuning of the lamp to all directions.  Materials: Ash and Walnut wood.

Above: Giben

Corian Bra table lamp is attached to a surface, a shelf or desk, with a wood screw. This lamp is a development of my earlier "Bra" version; I switched the brass pipes with copper pipes and added the corian. Materials: Ash wood, corian and copper pipes.

Above: Giben

Long Light is an attached to surface lamp. I developed a clasp allowing a tight grip of the lamp to the surface due to the friction between the wood and the brass pipe. Materials: Maple wood and Brass pipes.

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X marks the sport where you hang your hat and coat with these hooks that also function as coat hangers.

Named the X Hanger, the multi-purpose hook was designed by Kfir Schwalb of Israel.

The cross-shaped hooks are made from powder-coated, bent steel and are available in an assortment of colours.

You can see more projects by Israeli designers in our special feature.

Here are a few more words from Schwalb:

X Hanger

The idea came from observing ordinary daily functions. Everyone who has a clothes hanger needs 2 hanging options: a hook rack option and a clothes hanger option.

The result is a kind of fusion between these two functions.

Materials: CNC powder-coated bent steel

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