Name: Apsis Lamp
Designer: Zak Stratfold
Location: London, England
Year: 2013
Apsis Lamp is a minimalist design created by England-based designer Zak Stratfold. This brief – set by Belgian wood bending experts G. DesMet - asked the designer to design a product using readily available laminated components from their extensive product catalogue; a refreshing inversion of the typical mantra ‘form follows function’.
Apsis is based on the circle’s most fundamental quality – rotational symmetry. The laminated beech wood body revolves freely around a limestone trey base, without the need for the complicated mechanisms commonly associated with adjustable lamps. The cable and LED components are hidden within the body and head, creating a clean, uninterrupted aesthetic. Items within the trey are orbited and illuminated by the lamp head, which in turn pivots through a range of 90 degrees, the light waxing and waning as it is cast around the room.