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James Wines treats the humble light bulb as both muse and material in his Light Bulb series for Foscarini. White Light preserves the archetype: a hand-blown satin-glass sphere rests on a white aluminium base and glows from within, like the Platonic idea of a bulb made tangible. Black Light, released alongside it, turns that idea inside-out—the metal socket becomes the source of a warm 2 700 K LED, while the glass bulb above stays mysteriously dark, an object lit by its own absence. Each lamp stands roughly six inches tall and plugs in with a fabric-covered cord whose inline slider moves the integrated 3-watt LED from night-light hush to reading brightness. Limited-run packaging printed with Wines’s sketches reinforces the piece’s art-house pedigree, yet the scale and price keep it within reach of design enthusiasts. Perch one on a shelf or pair the black and white versions together; either way, the familiar form of the light bulb becomes a small work of conceptual sculpture—half illumination, half idea—that invites a second look every time it flicks on.
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