10 beautiful, unexpected, and downright weird takes on the lamp

Designers love to experiment, but there’s one particular object where they tend to get especially creative and even weird: lighting. Picture a ceramic lamp sculpted into a car, a fixture and shade cast in metal swirls, and something that looks like a cork UFO. These out-of-the-box designs are part of a new exhibition during New York’s Design Week showing the unusual territory where designers are taking lighting. From left: Hawa Al-Najjar, Mazhariyya Lamp, 2025. Suna Bonometti,...