The London Design Festival 2008 has thrown up some tasty designer tech, including the Xbox 360-styled lamp by Jean-Marie Massaud for Skandium. It’s made of green materials – and we don’t just mean the base.
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What do you get when you cross Lego bricks and a 40 watt bulb? No, not molten plastic: this innovative DIY lamp!
There’s no denying that Sergio Mannino and Jan Habraken’s design has iconic style and an appealingly 80’s retro feel – it even comes with a stack of books – but the name is frankly, rubbish.
Here’s a novel way to get back to basics, using found objects for much the same purpose, but a whole heap more environmentally-friendly. It’s a limited-edition run of 66, and each set comes with two of the oil lamps, and a magnetic base which they sit upon.
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These ghostly outdoor lamps from B. Lux will lead you up the garden path alright, but at £565 apiece, you might also want to consider an alternative – like actual trees…