Floor To Ceiling Giant Lava Lamp

October 29, 2022

Weird Lamps: Seven Strange, Haunting (Or Downright Scary) Lamps From Around The World

As you can see, they range from the funny ha-ha to the funny-peculiar, and from hauntingly beautiful works of art to downright terrifying oddities…

1) A Christmas Story Leg Lamp

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Made by a San Diego company called Red Rider Leg Lamps, it's simply a lamp with a base in the shape of a woman's leg. 3) Chocolate Light by Alexandre Lervik

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Another artist working occasionally in the lamp world is Swedish designer Alexander Lervik. 4) The Soap Lake Lava Lamp

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The world's largest lava lamp stands 60 feet tall with a cast concrete base, clad in glazed porcelain tiles and fashioned with high-tension stainless steel cables. The only problem with this magnificent structure is… that it does not currently exist. 6) The Good Boy lamp by whatshisname

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The work of another artist - but perhaps a little more controversial, this one! Created by hip London artist Whatshisname, he's a sleek black dog with a light switch located in, well… his business.

Fat Lava Floor Lamp

Due to the advent of electricity and the introduction of new materials as part of lighting design, street lights have taken on new shapes and configurations over the years. In the early 1920s, Art Deco lighting artisans worked with dark woods and modern metals, introducing unique designs that still inspire the look of modern floor lamps developed by contemporary companies such as Luxxu. Popular mid-century floor lamps include everything from enchanting fixtures by Italian lighting artisans Stilnovo, to the distinctly functional Grasshopper floor lamp created by Scandinavian design pioneer Greta Magnusson-Grossman, to the Paracarro floor lamp by Venetian glass masters Mazzega. . While Livio left the firm in 1952, Achille and Pier Giacomo continued to design the Arco floor lamp, the Toio floor lamp and many others for legendary lighting brands such as FLOS. Today's high-end interiors frequently incorporate the otherworldly custom lighting solutions created by a host of contemporary companies and designers such as Spain's Masquespacio, whose Wink floor lamps incorporate gold as well as fabric fringes. Visual artists and industrial designers have a fondness for floor lamps, perhaps because they are so often a clever marriage of design and lighting function.