The Home Lamp by Nima Keivani is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Competition Category.
IronLighting· 2022
The Home Lamp
by Nima Keivani
Client: Keivani Architects
A' Design Award Winner in Lighting Category
Verified Award Winner
Verify Award Status for #139938The Design
About The Home Lamp
Creating a deeper connection between man and home is the conceptual goal of design. The use of copper metal, which inherently creates feels relaxed, is due to this concept. The user can control the light of the lamp with each touch of copper metal. The designer has been looking for deeper interaction with the lamp. four houses as a sign of the four main elements of life and soft and warm light which is in the center of them as a sign of consciousness, the type of light and shadow resulting from its combination with houses creates a feeling of Poetically space.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
The Home Lamp is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. The Home Lamp is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. The Home Lamp is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The main principle was to connect architecture with human emotion, blending functionality with deeper symbolism. Inspired by the concept of "home" as a universal need, we integrated elements of nature, light as consciousness, and a balance between modern and traditional forms to reflect the spiritual essence of living spaces.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
Our focus was to create a design that transcends utility, serving as both a functional lamp and a sculptural reflection of human existence. We aimed to evoke warmth, intimacy, and introspection while highlighting the tension between traditional and modern living through contrasting materials and thoughtful light integration.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
We plan to expand The Home Lamp into a series, exploring variations in size, materials, and functionality. We aim to showcase it internationally, collaborate with luxury brands for production, and position it as a symbol of thoughtful design bridging art and function.
Grand Interview
Your innovative integration of copper's conductive properties in The Home Lamp creates a seamless interaction between user and light - could you elaborate on how this touch-sensitive dimming system evolved during your design process?
The touch-sensitive dimming system in The Home Lamp evolved through our exploration of copper’s conductive properties, seamlessly blending functionality and artistry. By leveraging copper’s natural responsiveness, we eliminated external controls, preserving the lamp’s sculptural purity. This innovation creates an intuitive interaction, reflecting our aim to redefine lighting as an integral, almost organic element of human environments.
The Home Lamp's architectural elements seem to represent a dialogue between modern and traditional housing concepts - how did your background in architecture influence this symbolic interpretation of home through illumination?
Our architectural background heavily influenced The Home Lamp, symbolizing the dialogue between modernity and tradition. The concrete base represents industrial modernity, while the copper houses evoke warmth and intimacy. This juxtaposition mirrors the essence of architecture: balancing utility with meaning, reminding us that homes are more than structures—they are spaces for human existence and connection.
The four house shapes in The Home Lamp reference the four elements of nature, with light at their core symbolizing consciousness - what inspired you to incorporate these philosophical and spiritual dimensions into what appears at first glance to be a functional lighting fixture?
Incorporating the four elements of nature with light as a core symbol emerged from our belief that design should transcend function. Light, representing awareness, illuminates the interconnection between man and nature. The Home Lamp merges spirituality and utility, inspiring users to see beyond the object’s physicality and reflect on the harmony of natural and human-made worlds.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- four home shape in this lamp is used to refer to the four elements of nature that form man and the universe in the composition, and light, which is a sign of awareness and excellence, is located in the core of these houses. The rotation of light cubes in the direction of rotation of the Sun. the concrete frame marks of modern architecture, that is, regardless of the spirit of the place and the real existence of humans.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Dimensions: 54 45 25 cm Materials: Copper Reinforced concrete with GFRC fibers LED light custom electronics. 1W 3500K LED
- Tags
- Lighting, table lamp, cordless lamp, portable lamp, wireless lamp, battery lamp, Dimmer lamp, Nima Keivani
- Production Technology
- The main materials used in the lamp design are copper pipes that are welded together. The central core of the lights is a matte plexiglas with led. The concrete frame is made of lightweight concrete with custom molding in which gfrc glass fibers are used to increase the tensile strength. The dimmer used in this lamp is custom made by the electronics team.
- Design Challenge
- The relationship between man, home, and the light was at the center of the research. The product had to respect the aesthetic and philosophical canons of the company and use materials and production technologies In a way, it should convey the sense of confrontation between home, meaning living space, and home, which is just a machine for living.
- Research
- The main research in the design of this lamp was on the concepts that can connect the house to the lamp. The designer has been looking for meanings but sometimes intuitively approached the subject, lighting is not something that is just there. we want to use it
In fact, in this object, warm sense and relaxing houses made of copper metal are contrasted with cold concrete houses, and it is a sign of the confusion of man today between modern cold life and the peace and feeling of the need of his soul. - Inspiration
- Architecture means embodying the spirit of the place and the architect duty is to create meaningful places through which to help man to be and pay attention to his existence This sentence is the idea of designing this lamp The most basic human connection with architecture is the house and man needs housing A similar but intimate relationship exists in the domestic environment between man light and space resulting in inexplicable prosperity and peace of mind
- Project Duration
- The Lamp was designed in Jun 2017 in Tehran/Iran and made in August 2017 Tehran/Iran.
- Operation Flow
- The Home has an integrated custom touch dimmer. As coper is conductive, this system takes advantage of its properties, so when you touch the copper section lamp on any side it turns on/off. The user can also control the led brightness by tapping the lamp several times. This makes the object looks more sculptural as you don't need a black metal box with a dimmer close to the lamp to be able to turn it on, it's just the lamp.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Keivani Architects, 2017
- Team Members
- Designer: Nima Keivani, Designer Sina Keivani
- Image Credits
- Nima Keivani
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