Matali Crasset Nomade Led Floor Or Table Light

French designer Matali Crasset has created a lamp based on traditional railway lighting for IKEA's PS 2017 collection. Crasset took inspiration from classic hand-held railway lanterns for the design. "I've always been interested in different types of transport and been fascinated by how magical it must have been when we got light indoors," said the designer, who previously designed a grid-patterned wardrobe for IKEA's 2014 PS collection. "So it's maybe not surprising that I was inspired by old railway lights when I created the LED multi-use light in the IKEA PS 2017 collection." A pair of handles lets the LED lamp be carried or hung, and a circular break in the grid-patterned cage allows room for the light to shine without interruption. The steel surrounding also allows the lamp to be placed on its side. Crasset has previously created claw-like jewellery, modular furniture and concrete lamps shaped like military listening devices. The design, which can function as a floor or table light, features a torch-shapedred-lampencased in a powder-coated steel cage. NOMAD LAMP multi-function LED lighting Designer Matali Crasset for IKEA The lamp can be charged by USB or via a conventional power outlet. Integrated light source original box Dim: Steel 20 cm × 17 cm - H 25 cm "This object is inspired by railway workers' lamps. An object marks the beginning of industrialization and the arrival of the railways which prefigure the mobility of today. It is not a nostalgic object, because it retains only the outline of this reference and invites us to benefit from the service of the object. I like the way in which it proposes the domestication of the source LED which is rather cold and efficient. It is presented here with an interface shape that makes it prehensile. It is also a bit as if we wanted to put the minimum of material by hollowing it out: LED lamps allow us to consume less, the body of the object is in unison. Some objects become immaterial, but our culture has been partly defined by our ability to decode shapes but also the symbolic aspect of objects. We need transitional objects that allow us to see again and also to manipulate. It is a product that allows appropriation, it moves and lands where we need it. It is a humble and helpful object at the same time. It lands, it clings… always ready, we find this complicity with an object whose function is out of time, but whose presence is updated. MATALI CRASSET. but our culture has been partly defined by our ability to decode shapes but also the symbolic aspect of objects. We need transitional objects that allow us to see again and also to manipulate. It is a product that allows appropriation, it moves and lands where we need it. It is a humble and helpful object at the same time. It lands, it clings… always ready, we find this complicity with an object whose function is out of time, but whose presence is updated. MATALI CRASSET. but our culture has been partly defined by our ability to decode shapes but also the symbolic aspect of objects. We need transitional objects that allow us to see again and also to manipulate. It is a product that allows appropriation, it moves and lands where we need it. It is a humble and helpful object at the same time. It lands, it clings… always ready, we find this complicity with an object whose function is out of time, but whose presence is updated. MATALI CRASSET. it clings… always ready, we find this complicity with an object whose function is out of time, but whose presence is updated. MATALI CRASSET. it clings… always ready, we find this complicity with an object whose function is out of time, but whose presence is updated. MATALI CRASSET.

Condition report:

Excellent

Additional dimensions information:

Height: 25 cmWidth:17 cmDepth:20 cm