Brilliant...simply hit-your-forehead brilliant idea of using something as common and ignored as the electrical cord as both the power source and the materials which shapes the lamp (looks like we have an unplanned/unintentional wrapping theme offerede between the last two posts here on ATLA). We could imagine Craighton Berman releasing a series of additional lamp shapes, or offering a budget DIY set using cardboard and LED rope lighting. More images and details below...
Upon first glance, the familiar shape may lead the viewer to believe that Coil Lamp is merely a stylized table lamp, but upon closer inspection they will discover the entire form is created exclusively from a single electrical extension cord-- a humble, everyday object that appears to defy gravity by maintaining a 3-dimensional form.In actuality, the extension cord has been wrapped around a laser-cut clear plexiglass form, which both provides structure for Coil Lamp’s deceptively minimalist concept, and raises the status of the banal extension cord to the realm of high design.
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A Perfect Xmas Gift -
- for Norm Abrams.
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Lamp is kinda cool but the poor writing bothers me.
First: ". . . the entire form is created exclusively from a single electrical extension cord . . ."
And then later: ". . . the extension cord has been wrapped around a laser-cut clear plexiglass form . . . "
The extension cord is wrapped around plexiglass, so the entire form is not created "exclusively" from the cord.
view Griffin's profile
OMG!
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I recognized it was a heavy-duty extension cord right away. I don't like it a lot.
view K T G's profile
I love Norm! That explains my own affinity for New Yankee Workshop, my jealousy of his beard and my desire to make my own cord lamp.
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love it.
(btw: Norm Abrams owns a penthouse in NYC)
view Aaron's profile
I think it's ugly.
view jooly's profile
It looks great with white cord!
view pkswede's profile
What a novel idea! where can i purchase the kit? I'd buy two in a heart beat.
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"Norm Abrams owns a penthouse in NYC"
Really - Is that in addition to the home that he built for himself and his wife in Massachussets that was the subject of this book?
http://www.b4ubuild.com/books/reviews/norm_new_house.shtml
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i don't like it. looks like you're trying to be cute at the expense of a lamp actually looking good.
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Thanks for the comments and the post, ATLA. It should also be noted that this lamp was designed for a conceptual design exhibition in Chicago called Deceptive Design. The central theme of this exhibition was "to push the envelope of our common conceptions of furniture and furnishings and explore new roles for design to take on." This piece was designed around the concept of visual deception-- riffing off of the iconography of the domestic table lamp. If you're interested in the piece, please join my mailing list-- it will be available in early 2009!
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