Clever tricks and some obsessive crafting

A lightbulb might seem like an odd thing to covet, but then, the Plumen 003 LED spotlight is an uncommonly beautiful lightbulb. The new design by Claire Norcross, Marie Laure Giroux, and the British firm Hulger relies on a few clever tricks and some obsessive crafting to produce one of the most elegant lightbulbs we’ve ever seen. At its center is an LED spotlight, and the brass-plated aluminum housing focuses the equivalent of 60W directly below the bulb. But the genius of the design is the way the housing’s facets direct gentle light in all directions.