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Shawn Yang's Duplex light can be flipped from a desk lamp to a pendant
Taiwan-based designer Shawn Yang has designed a wooden lampshade that can serve as both a desk lamp and a pendant light.
Yang, an industrial designer who recently graduated from Taiwan's Shih Chien University, made Duplex so it can sit flat on a surface or be hung from the ceiling by its wire.
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"Duplex is a playful and optional light," said the designer. "Both ways bring comfort atmosphere into the living space."
In both of its incarnations, Duplex has the shape of an upside-down funnel. A small gap at the largest opening creates space for a wire to run through, allowing the lamp to sit flat on surfaces.
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As a pendant light, the lampshade is hung by its wire, with the largest opening facing downwards.
The lampshade, manufactured by wood turning, comes in green and pink.
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Yang's portfolio of design work includes a giant spirograph that makes three-dimensional patterns on home accessories including chandleholders, bowls and lampshades. This was his 2016 graduate project.
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Other recent lighting projects have seen design collective Outofstock create a heat-compressed felt lamp that varies in appearance depending on the angle it is viewed, and Bucharest designer Dragos Motica make a lamp that can be turned on and off by moving a metal ball.