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Heavy Desk Light by Benjamin Hubert for Decode
London Design Festival 09: London designer Benjamin Hubert will launch a concrete desk lamp for design brand Decode London at 100% Design in London this week.
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The lamps have a cast-concrete base and shade, joined by a wooden stand through which a red flex is threaded.
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They are made of oak or walnut with concrete parts available in three different shades of grey.
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The project is a continuation of Hubert's Heavy lamps for Decode London, launched at 100% Futures last year (see our previous story).
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The lamps are nominated for the 100% Design/Blueprint Best New Product award and The British Design Awards (vote here).
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More about Benjamin Hubert on Dezeen:
Chimney
Pebble
Material Centric
Cast Desk Tidy
Dandilight
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See all our stories about London Design Festival 2009 in our special category.
Here's some more information from Hubert:
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Heavy Desk Light, a collaboration with UK furniture and lighting manufacturer Decode.
Decode are a young British brand working closely with both emerging and established London based designers to produce innovative, contemporary interior objects.
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In 2008 Benjamin Hubert collaborated with Decode to produce the award winning concrete pendant Heavy Lights. The desk light represents the first extension of this range. The lamp combines a simple aesthetic and new typology with a juxtaposition of industrial and natural materials.
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Heavy Desk Lights comprise of a cast concrete base and shade with a ply laminate arm and machined aluminium details. The cast concrete shade is produced using an innovative ceramic casting technique manufactured in a specialist workshop in Leipzig Germany. This allows the shape to be cast with
a 4mm thin wall section.
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Heavy Desk Lights are short listed for Elle Decor ‘British Design of the Year’ and 100% Design/Blueprint ‘Best New Product’.
Heavy Desk Light Specification
h 400mm w 220mm d 280mm
European oak / American walnut with dark grey / light grey / white concrete and aluminium details