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Spotted on Coroflot: The Heavenly 'Halo' Lamp

By Kat Bauman - April 12, 2017

in Product Design | Lighting | Flotspotting

This transcendent little light recently caught my eye over on Coroflot, where it's adding some shine to Quentin de Coster's design portfolio. The Halo is a blown glass table lamp, created around the fluorescent ring bulb at the center. The light stands 40cm high and 33cm wide, with a distinctive open top.

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The profile isn't exactly shocking, particularly with the continued popularity around mid-century "mushroom" style lamps. But in this case, the open-air top gives the lamp a vase-like feeling, while still casting gently colored and refracted light. With the direct view of the bulb, it's a gentle inversion of a familiar table lamp's body and shade.

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The Halo lamps were hand blown and finished and produced in a limited run of 18 by L'Atelier du Val.

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Lighting design can be difficult to judge objectively, since ambiance and style are both highly personal and space specific. Innovating in that space is similarly difficult—we've been making light sources since we figured out fire—and subtle material tweaks like these go a long way.

You can check out more of de Coster's playful and attractive work here.

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Benjamin S

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Lovely, but note what you don't see:
- Circline lamps require ballasts. Somewhere along the length of that cable must be a brick to contain it.
- Circline lamps are rarely flawless objects themselves. There will be writing on the bulb denoting its manufacturer, wattage, and color temperature. The plastic power connection segment tends to be crudely manufactured without aesthetics in mind. The lamp will developing dark blemishes near its ends over time. All things to note when putting the bulb on such a nice pedestal, bare to the world from every angle.

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  An LED circline bulb replacement would solve the earthworm collar and the slowly blackening ends, but not the brick.
  
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