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Stockholm Furniture Fair 2023: Say Hej! to... Stair Lamp by Notchi Architects for Oblure


Published on 19.02.2023
Stockholm Furniture Fair 2023: Say Hej! to... Stair Lamp by Notchi Architects for Oblure

Launched in 2022 by Gothenburg based lighting manufacturer Oblure, Stair Lamp by, similarly Gothenburg based, Notchi Architects, is a freely dimmable desk/table/bedside lamp-cum-bookend which features two integrated USB-C ports on the side, an integrated two-pin plug socket unobtrusively, neatly, hidden within the base, exterior storage space for pens, USB sticks, chewing gum, lip balm, rings, loose change, very small cacti, etc, etc, etc..... and which screams 1980s Postmodernism at you.

Screams I'm idealised classical geometric forms set against one another in an incongruous manner.

Screams I'm reduced, reserved ostentation and gratuitousness.

Screams I have been freed from the dogmatic constraints of form following function, and thereby gained in functionality and form.

Screams I'm the moon atop a flight of stairs.

Then adds in a more measured tone, I'm playful, but focussed; I'm limited in my faculties, but responsive in my utility; I'm anonymous, but unignorable; I'm universal, but specific; I'm angular, but inviting.

And you answer, Thank you!!!

The question we asked, and to continue to ask, ourselves is, could you scale it up to a floor lamp? 'cause if you could you've got yourself an interesting architectural feature. And a fascinating lamp-seat-shelving-ladder-combo for home or office. Or garden in an upscaled outdoor version.

And if you can't, you've still got a charming and accommodating and practical 21st century desk/table/bedside lamp-cum-bookend that reminds you how far we've come since the 1980s, yet how relevant that recent distant decade still is. Or how relevant it can be, when not encaged and tethered by the indignities of pastiche and cliché and styling.

Stair Lamp by Notchi Architects for Oblure, as seen at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2023
Stair Lamp by Notchi Architects for Oblure, as seen at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2023
Stair Lamp by Notchi Architects for Oblure, as seen at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2023
Stair Lamp by Notchi Architects for Oblure, as seen at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2023

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#bookend #Gothenburg #lighting #Notchi Architects #Oblure #Stair Lamp #Stockholm #Stockholm Furniture Fair