Blocks Lamps Настольная лампа by Rio Jiunyu Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Железная премия A' Design Award in Дизайн осветительных приборов и светильников Competition Category.
ЖелезнаяОсвещение· 2025
Blocks Lamps Настольная лампа
Client: Rio Chen Studio
Железная премия A' Design Award Winner in Освещение Category
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The Design
About Blocks Lamps Настольная лампа
Blocks Lamps — это коллекция скульптурных настольных ламп, вдохновлённых городской архитектурой. Пять форм отсылают к библиотекам, башням, таунхаусам, перевёрнутым пирамидам и аренам. Каждая лампа изготовлена из белого дуба, стали и тутовой бумаги. Текстуры древесных волокон, заимствованные из техники печатной графики, перенесены на абажуры, напоминая о течении времени. Когда лампы расставлены вместе, группа напоминает городской квартал и создаёт игру света и тени. Коллекция трактует освещение одновременно как личный и как архитектурный объект.
The Recognition
About the Железная премия A' Design Award
Blocks Lamps Настольная лампа — лауреат Железной премии A' Design Award, престижного признания, присуждаемого хорошим проектам, которые отвечают профессиональным и промышленным требованиям, ожидаемым от хорошо продуманных творений. Обладатели Железной премии демонстрируют большое мастерство, высокую специализацию, экспертное понимание и творческие способности их авторов. Ожидается, что Blocks Lamps Настольная лампа станет высокоценимым, вызывающим восхищение и дорогим сердцу творением, практичным и инновационным. Этот проект, получивший Железную премию A' Design Award, интегрирует лучшие отраслевые практики и обладает компетентными техническими характеристиками, сочетающимися с ноу-хау и талантом. Благодаря основательности Blocks Lamps Настольная лампа заслуживает уважения и создан для того, чтобы улучшать качество жизни, помогая сделать мир лучше.
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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