Now, Mr. Mayer, 36, is making square and rectangular lamps out of layers of acrylic held together with industrial bolts.
You walk into the bottom of a long "L", with a patterned, tiled floor, stonking great chandeliers, stern rectangular lamps and blood-red upholstery which is in keeping with one of this column's bugbears: over-deep benches.
Metallic brown, the rectangular lamp hangs like a head on a mechanical crane's neck, with two little buttons, one black, one red, resembling eyes.
In the bedroom, spaces are jazzed up with circular rugs in fire-engine red or pale blue, and a touch of cosiness is added by a rectangular lamp in a typically English pink chintz.
The responsibility for the programme was then passed in turn to Simca (where it became known internally as "Simca 1800"), who gave the car a different front end with rectangular single front lamps, as well as stripped the interior of some features proposed by the Rootes Group team, such as genuine wood and leather and air conditioning.
More tables are lined up on the perimeter, interspersed with heat lamps and rectangular white umbrellas.
3. A new lamp with a rectangular base in dark brown leather, and a parchment shade, by the English company Ocher, is $680 at Room, 182 Duane Street (Hudson Street); (888) 420-7666.
From 'The Impulse Society' by Paul Roberts (Bloomsbury £18.99) By Charlotte Philby Light show The bright new collection from Bert Frank includes Shear, a 1930s-inspired mountasktask light; Riddle, a double articulated wall lamp; and Arbor, a rectangular number made from clear acrylic rods.
Fluorescent lamps are typically installed in recessed rectangular fixtures with clear prismatic lenses, but there are many other fixture types, including indirect cove lights and luminous ceilings with lamps placed above suspended plastic or metal eggcrate diffuser grids.
Then it looked like a desk lamp, and now it's a rectangular sheet of glass with the electronics hidden behind it.
Immediately, he set to work, building a boxlike rectangular structure out of shoji screens and a desk lamp.
