BLASTED KL1 by Kai Linke Materials: Pine, polycarbonate, aluminium, and steel with 4 meter fabric cord. Dimensions: H: 60 x L: 805 x W: 60 mm Colours: Natural, Black. Light Source: 1x T5 (PK5) 549 mm Max: 14W / 2700K Design Date: 2011 Story: The Blasted lamp is cut out of one single piece of wood to make as clean and simple a shape as possible. There’s no cutting or gluing the wood together. The glass-blasted treatment of the wood is where the lamp takes its name from. Kai Linke was also thinking about what a flying branch would look like if it could be suspended in the air. He wanted to explore unexpected gravity. Can wood find a balance where normally no balance exists? The result is an asymmetrical pendant lamp which functions equally well as a standing lamp. & in the words of Kai Linke: “Design can irritate the normal ways of thinking and can wake us up and change our accepted customs.” andtradition.com

Kai Linke designed the Blasted lamp Tradition: As a kid, German award winning designer Kai Linke and his sister often played with old cardboard boxes, tape and glue. He always loved to create objects with his hands and to play with materials. Growing up, he studied architecture at the University of Technology in Darmstadt, and then entered the Academy of Art and Design in Offenbach, studying at the Department of Industrial Design. From 2005 to 2009 he was supported by a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation. After working as a freelancer for some time, he set up his own design...