Finnish designer Harri Koskinen explains how he came up with the idea of encasing a lightbulb in a glass box to create his iconic Block Lamp in the next movie in our exclusive video series.
Block Lamp consists of a simple lightbulb encased within two pieces of transparent cast glass, which fit together to form a brick-sized block.
Koskinen came up with the idea in 1996 while studying at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. However, he says he didn't set out to make a lamp.
"The university gave us a brief to create a silver wedding gift item," he explains in the movie, which Dezeen filmed at his studio in Helsinki.
"I decided to work with cast glass and came up with the idea that the glass package is the gift itself."
Koskinen tried placing a range of different items inside glass blocks before realising he could use lightbulb to create a lamp.
"I really made a homage to the Edison lightbulb," he says.
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