Eight Unconventional Lighting Designs That Break the Rules

Key facts

• City Girls is a London studio of two unnamed artists who make lamps from found objects including a fibreglass model boat, old sequins and butterflies from a smashed toy.
• Baguette Studio, co-founded by Philippe Gaud and Emma Lohner, created Le Labo 1.0 wax lampshades that can be melted and endlessly remade without material loss.
• Wretched Flowers, by New York designers Loney Abrams and Johnny Stanish, produced a floor lamp shaped like an elongated Verner Panton 1968 Flowerpot lamp, covered in chainmail and hand-beaded glass and gemstones.
• Billy Easter released the Gel Lamp through her studio Public Parts; it is a hollow silicone cube measuring approximately 11.5-by-11.5-by-11.5 centimetres with a dimmable LED base and slots for coloured gels.
• Bic Lamp by Mario Paroli and Seletti is a pendant shaped like the Bic Cristal ballpoint, 12 times the size of the standard pen, with black, blue and red lid iterations.
• Audra Grays and Maxim Lester created Fused, a desk lamp made from offcuts of Grays' glassmaking and Lester's metalwork, fused to cut making costs.
• Andu Masebo's A4 Lamp is made from three pieces of galvanised sheet steel that fit inside an A4 envelope and debuted earlier this year at Unit.d in Haggerston.
• Simon Skinner created 20 kitschy table lamps by stacking second-hand bowls, ashtrays and tiny cat figurines from charity shops and flea markets, each sandblasted to look like objects suspended in ice.