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Designed 1997

"Wo bist du, Edison?" Lamp

From the beginning of his career, Ingo Maurer has had a deep fascination with the bare lightbulb. Wo bist du, Edison? (Where Are You, Edison?) is his homage to the inventor of the lightbulb, Thomas Alva Edison. One of Maurer's most technologically advanced designs, this lamp is a 360-degree hologram of a lightbulb that appears to be suspended in the center of an acrylic cylinder. The actual source of light, a halogen bulb, is inside a socket in the shape of Edison's profile.

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"Wo bist du, Edison?" Lamp, Designed 1997 | Philadelphia Art Museum