These Lamps Illustrate How Lamps Work When You Turn Them On

There's a reason lamps were the first electrical gadgets: they're simple. A simple switch opens or closes the connection between an electric current and a light bulb. The filament in the light bulb heats up from the electricity, and voila. Let there be light. It's a simplicity and elegance that is hidden away inside a lamp, where you can't really appreciate it. As part of their Node series of lamps, The Odd Matter Design Studio has taken the elegance of a lamp's mechanism and externalized it as a sculptural part of the body itself.