Any Art-Deco-era designer would've been thrilled to create these, but the form would have been impossible. Now that low-profile LEDs exist, however, Tokyo/New-York-based designer Nao Tamura can and did design these.

These Turn lamps, manufactured by Japanese lighting brand Ambientec, come in brass, aluminum or stainless steel.

You've probably noticed there's no visual switch. As for how they're operated:

My only criticism: For the sake of not leaving fingerprints and fiddling with a touch sensor, I'd have preferred a physical switch. (Then again, I've got a thing for switches.)

reminds me of cylinder head valves, nice

I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.

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