Rubber Lamp

'Their assignment: to update the classic spring-balanced anglepoise lamp from the 1930s.

A 26-year-old Portuguese student named Tiago de Oliveira Martins de Fonseca concluded that he couldn’t improve on the design, which has already gone through countless refinements.

Instead he would give it a well-deserved respite from its upright position by splaying a rubber version on its side, like melting objects in a Dali painting.'

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