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Tongs by Takashi Sato

Tokyo-based designer Takashi Sato has designed a lamp that holds a bulb in place using a tong-like structure.

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Inspired by "the tong of the kitchen tool," the aluminium Tongs lamp has a slot in the shade to allow a bulb and cord to be added and held in place by the structure.

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Sato exhibited the lamp at Salone Satellite in Milan this year.

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Other projects presented by the Japanese designer included a coat stand where hangers form the pegs, a felt-covered, folding, plywood stool called Pata and a mirror which appears to form a hole in the wall.

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Below: coat hanger.

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Below: Hole.

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Below: Pata.

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Below: Sled.

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