Block Lamp by Harri Koskinen sure is a classic. And here fantasy is really at play. The stark contrast between glass as an almost eternal and very tactile substance, and the industrial form of an Edison light bulb that alights with the flick of a switch. A design that is a sculpture, but also a functional light as such. Harri Koskinen took part of a glass workshop as a design student in Helsinki 25 years ago. With the assignment to create a gift for a silver wedding, he wanted to make a package that was integral to the gift itself. After many tries with different gifts, he became fascinated when he put a lamp bulb inside the two blocks of glass produced by the mould he had made. The Block Lamp didn’t fit the workshop requirements, but Harri made 40 of them anyway by himself. They sold out the same evening he presented them. Four years later they were included in MOMA:s permanent design collection.
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