Manana Floor Lamp by Design House Stockholm

Floor lamp in lacquered steel with dimmer foot switch. Globe 60W E27 bulb included.

Colour: Grey
Dimensions: h 66.93″
Designer: Marie-Louise Guastafsson

Sometimes ideas turn up that immediately spark your creativity. Mañana was one of them.

A stick figure drawing from one of Marie-Louise Gustafsson’s sketch-books took on the form of a floor lamp, with its body leaning against the wall.

Mañana means tomorrow in Spanish and the lamp’s laid-back, nonchalant attitude totally communicates chill-out, take it easy, stay cool. The lamp is lacquered in graphite grey to emphasize the feeling of a pencil sketch and has a turnable steel plated lampshade with a large globe bulb to give the feeling of a face.

Gus* Modern – Lightbox. It’s an ottoman, a side table or a lighted sculpture. Add a little funk to your modern space with this hip Lightbox from Gus*. Takes a regular lightbulb and can hold up to 250 lbs!

Who: Designed and Manufactured by Gus*.
Material: Roto-moulded plastic lightbox.
Specs: 18d x 18w x 18h (inches)

You can keep letting it irritate the hell out of you. Break your neck tripping over it. Or surrender, hide it behind the skirting board or press it into a groove. But it’s smarter to make friends with the enemy, as so amusingly illustrated by cord light, which turns the cursed flex cord into a simple eye catcher. We probably shouldn’t claim that the lamp conveys a message, but just for fun, how about ‘make peace not war’? From a snake nest of winding cords, this lamp shoots straight up and stands tall on its own. Surprising the eye by challenging the unexpected, the Cord Light is simple, yet characteristic. The cord, one of the most disturbing decorating details has been made useful. The piece is made out of a standard bulb, textile cord and steel tube. Textile cord, H 130 cm (51.2″) Bulb included (GLOBE opal 40 W.)