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New Dutch lighting brand Booo launched its inaugural collection of LED lightbulbs at Spazio Rossana Orlandi last week - including this bursting bubble lamp by Front and a squishy rubber balloon-shaped bulb by Nacho Carbonell.
Surface Tension Lamp by Front for Booo
Each designer was challenged to create an experimental concept design, and then a commercial interpretation which could be mass-produced.
Front's Surface Tension lamp uses an LED light source which will last 50,000 hours and will be covered by 3 million different bubble lampshades during its lifetime.
Nacho Carbonell for Booo
Nacho Carbonell's Future of Lighting bulb uses rubber to subvert the archetype of the cold, rigid light source, and also create a much more durable product.
Nacho Carbonell for Booo
FormaFantasma's Light Species resembles a leaf more than a lightbulb. The limited-edition concept piece uses polymers explored in their previous project Botanica, while the mass-production version is intended to be used either as a single piece or as a forest of lit leaves.
