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These are the table lamp trends for 2025
by Pia Seidel
How to liven up your lampshades
26.9.2024
Translation: Megan Cornish
There are loads of tutorials online at the moment about how to turn a basic lampshade into something more interesting. A graffiti pioneer has jumped on this trend to put a new spin on a design classic.
At the last Milan Design Week, the Noguchi Museum presented a limited series of handmade Akari lamps. They’re part of a project initiated in 2020, where graffiti artist Futura 2000 put his own twist on the famous light sculptures.
The result is a combination of traditional Japanese and modern, urban art. While Noguchi’s known for minimalistic design, Futura 2000’s work’s full of expressive shapes and lines. The artist gave the Akari lamps his personal touch, using various techniques to create abstract, futuristic patterns, including stencilling and spray painting.
«Lamp tattoos» – a new design trend?
Design aficionado Marco Zamora didn’t paint his «boring» lampshade. He went for a «lamp tattoo», as he calls it. He uses a black marker pen to draw figures, slogans and abstract shapes on multiple shades. It might be a little early to say, but this TikTok video and other tutorials on various social media channels could be the first examples of a new lamp design trend.
Get the look
If you like the idea, here are a few lamps you can decorate before committing to a real Akari…
If you like the look but don’t want to get your hands dirty, there are already some colourful paper lampshades available to buy.
Header image: Pia Seidel
Pia Seidel
Senior Editor
Pia.Seidel@digitecgalaxus.chLike a cheerleader, I love celebrating good design and bringing you closer to everything furniture- and interior design- related. I regularly curate simple yet sophisticated interior ideas, report on trends and interview creative minds about their work.
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