ChiLab's Boolean Lamp: a hand-blown glass pendant in smoke glass on a cast-concrete base.

Selected work · 2014–present

Boolean Lamp

Hand-blown glass pendants by ChiLab Design Studio

Years
2014–present
Status
Ongoing
Partners
ChiLab Design Studio
Themes
Object Design, Design Research

Stub case study — full content forthcoming.

The Boolean Lamp takes an unremarkable object — the aluminum clip light, ubiquitous in studios and warehouses — and elevates it through hand-blown glass and considered base materials. Each piece is unique in the small variations of the glass while sharing a precise design language. The work is part of ChiLab Design Studio’s ongoing investigation into the everyday object as a site of careful redesign.

Awarded Best in Show at Wanted Design NYC, 2014. Premiered alongside the Unfolding Chair at Tent London the same year, and exhibited at Wanted Design NYC in 2013, 2014, and 2016 (the 2016 iteration as part of the Outside the Box Chicago group exhibition with Ben Stagl).