The lamp strikes a timeless pose
The Anglepoise is a bit like the Hoover or the Biro. Designed in 1933 by George Carwardine and still in production today, the lamp has had such a great impact on its industry that the term has now come to represent an entire category of design: the flexible, articulated task light.
It’s an iconic piece that continues to influence and be reinterpreted: Fosters and Partners based their three-sixty table light on its simple form back in 2005; Okay Studio recreated the lamp in bread last year as a comment on sustainable design for a show at the Aram Gallery and more recently the Anglepoise company itself has been reinvented by owners John Terry and son Simon, descendents of Anglepoise founder Herbert Terry.
Armed with some new lines like the Giant Anglepoise, and the Anglepoise Fifty, the brand is making a resurgence proving that like the Biro or the Hoover, this is a creation that will always be in demand.
But does it have the poise to make your Timeless 50?
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