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Blocks Lamps مصباح طاولة by Rio Jiunyu Chen

Blocks Lamps مصباح طاولة by Rio Jiunyu Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 جائزة A' Design Award الحديدية in تصميم منتجات وتجهيزات الإضاءة Competition Category.


حديدالإضاءة· 2025

Blocks Lamps مصباح طاولة

by Rio Jiunyu Chen

Client: Rio Chen Studio

جائزة A' Design Award الحديدية Winner in الإضاءة Category

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The Design

About Blocks Lamps مصباح طاولة

"بلوكس لامبس" مجموعة من مصابيح الطاولة النحتية المستوحاة من العمارة الحضرية. تستلهم الأشكال الخمسة من المكتبات والأبراج والمنازل المدينية والأهرامات المقلوبة والملاعب. يُصنع كل مصباح من خشب البلوط الأبيض والفولاذ وورق التوت. وقد نُقلت ملامس عروق الخشب المأخوذة من فن الطباعة الفنية إلى الأباجورات، لتستحضر مرور الزمن. وعند وضع المصابيح معًا، تبدو المجموعة أشبه بمربع سكني في المدينة، وتخلق تفاعلًا بين الضوء والظل. تتعامل المجموعة مع الإضاءة بوصفها غرضًا شخصيًا ومعماريًا في آن واحد.

The Recognition

About the جائزة A' Design Award الحديدية

Blocks Lamps مصباح طاولة هو فائز بجائزة A' Design Award الحديدية، وهي تقدير مرموق يُمنح للتصاميم الجيدة التي تلبّي المتطلبات المهنية والصناعية المنتظرة من الإبداعات حسنة التصميم. ويُظهر الفائزون بالحديدية مهارة كبيرة وتخصصًا عاليًا وفهمًا خبيرًا وقدرة إبداعية لدى صنّاعهم. ويُتوقع أن يكون Blocks Lamps مصباح طاولة إبداعًا عالي التقدير ومحل إعجاب وحب، عمليًا ومبتكرًا. وهذا التصميم الفائز بجائزة A' Design Award الحديدية يدمج أفضل ممارسات القطاع، وله خصائص تقنية كفؤة ترتبط بالدراية والموهبة. ويحظى Blocks Lamps مصباح طاولة بالاحترام لدقته، وقد صُمّم لتقديم تحسينات لجودة الحياة تساعد على جعل العالم مكانًا أفضل.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
Blocks features a series of sculptural table lamps that evoke the geometry of city blocks. Each lamp combines minimalist forms with textured surfaces, offering a modular aesthetic inspired by Chen’s experience of constant relocation—from Taiwan to Chicago and New York. The designs capture the tension between permanence and transience, symbolizing how objects and spaces accumulate meaning over time.
Dimensions & Packaging
Tower Lamp: 120mm x 120mm x 343mm, Library Lamp: 153mm x 280mm x 172mm, Pyramid Lamp: 228mm x 228mm x 178mm, Arena Lamp: 203mm x 203mm x 203mm, House Lamp: 120mm x 120mm x 203mm.
Material: White Oak, steel, and mulberry paper.
Tags
Architectural Design, Lighting, Lamps, Wood, Blocks
Production Technology
The sculptural table lamps take cues from architectural forms, spanning libraries, towers, townhouses, inverted pyramids, and arenas. These shapes transform familiar structures into modular, intimate objects, blurring the line between furniture and urban design. The wood grain textures from Chen’s printmaking technique are integrated into the lamp shades, transferring the organic patterns of wood onto a new material surface. This approach reinforces themes of time, material memory, and transformation within the lighting design.
Design Challenge
Inspired by Chen’s personal journey relocating between Taiwan, Chicago, and New York, the collection examines the act of packing, shifting, and reassessing belongings—both physically and emotionally.
Blocks reflects an object-oriented perspective, questioning how we define value, space, and memory in our lives. The work suggests that cubes—whether seen as obstacles, pixels, cities, or cherished objects—shape our perception of place and belonging.
Research
Blocks is a design-driven research project exploring architecture, material memory, and movement in object design. Inspired by relocation, it examines how urban landscapes and modularity shape emotional connections to objects. Drawing from libraries, towers, and townhouses, the lamps resemble cityscapes with wood grain-imprinted shades that capture time’s passage. The project reimagines lighting as both personal and architectural, bridging design, space, and memory.
Inspiration
The sculptural table lamps take cues from libraries, towers, townhouses, inverted pyramids, and arenas, transforming familiar structures into modular lighting pieces. When assembled together, the lamps resemble a city block, creating a dynamic interplay of light and shadow that evokes the rhythms of urban environments. The wood grain textures from Chen’s printmaking technique are integrated into the lamp shades, transferring natural patterns onto a new medium and reinforcing the theme of time.
Project Duration
The project started at the end of 2024 and was exhibited in Stockholm Furniture Fair Greenhouse Exhibition 2025.
Operation Flow
When assembled together, the lamps resemble a city block, creating a dynamic interplay of light and shadow that evokes the rhythms of built environments.
Team Members
Rio Jiunyu Chen (Me)
Image Credits
Image 01 and 02: Studio 57
Image 03: Rio Jiunyu Chen

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