"Provoking Magic: Lighting of Ingo Maurer" is a 40-year retrospective of works by the designer, who has created lamps and lighting designs for fashion runways, public buildings, monuments and private homes.
Stephen Johnson's goal in designing Kiss for Artecnica was to create a lamp that demands to be touched.
In 2006, Toby Cumberbatch, a professor of electrical engineering at the Cooper Union in New York, challenged his first-semester students to create a lamp for use in the middle of nowhere, one that cost less than $10 and could go for two days between recharges.
Mr. Nash, who lives in Cape Town, was inspired to create the lamps after meeting a Zimbabwean man named Robert Mondongwe who made flowers out of plastic bottles.
By making use of the abundant natural resources in their given environment, the researchers created Plant-lamp, a sustainable lamp that gives two hours of light everyday and is powered by the nutrients in the local soil.
The Belgian designer Martin Margiela decorated 17 suites here, and they're spacious, comfortable and visually witty, with the occasional surreal detail — a bird's wing mounted on a brass base to create a table lamp, or picture lamps that illuminate the empty brown squares where paintings might once have hung.
Edison's feat was creating a lamp that lasted longer and required less power than previous designs that were impractical for everyday use.
In addition to the table, he has created a lamp that resembles a blob of adipose tissue.
If you fantasize, as my brother and I always did, that enough fireflies could create a reading lamp, my recommendation is to catch other insects.
While most of the designers on our list, from Naoto Fukasawa, best known for his work with Japanese home goods store MUJI, to Yves Behar, the mind behind Herman Miller's famed leaf lamp, create affordable, easy-to-use products, our panelists are quick to point out that avant-garde designers matter.
