Calabash

A lamp inspired by the bottle gourd, Calabash

The wonderful bottle gourd, calabash, has always been used as a vessel for keeping the most important: water, drinks, medicine and even light – used as a lampshade.

Calabash was even considered to have healing and magic abilities – probably due to its characteristic feminine and sensual shape.

The direct function of a lampshade is to contain “the light” and to reflect it. But it is still present in the room when the light is switched off. The soft organic shape of a Calabash with its characteristic “waist” is a suspended sculpture that with its double convex mirrored surface reflects the whole room at once.


category — product
material — Spun aluminum, polished, mirror lacquered
year — 2010
country — Denmark
designer — Boris Berlin & Poul Christiansen, Komplot Design
© Komplot Design