Outer Borough Floor Lamp

Outer Borough Floor Lamp
by Matthew Haseltine

• Awarded April 15, 2021
• CLIENT: Metropolitan Space
• 4.173

The Outer Borough Lamp (OBL) is a free standing modular floor lamp composed with one high-strength cast and polished concrete base and a two-piece steam-bent wooden arm that supports a pendant luminaire. The base geometry has sharp edges and a low center of gravity with a hole at the centroid for lifting and moving. Its shape is sloped to receive the two-piece wooden arm that attaches at the front & back of the base before sloping up to a 2.5 meter tall arc. A pendant fixture hangs from the top with its exposed power supply weaving down the arm to plug into the lamp base next to a switch.