Nelson Bubble Lamp Saucer

Saucer bubble lamp pendant by george nelson from modernica bubble lamps.

Nelson bubble lamp saucer.

Bubbling up with their steel infrastructures and translucent plastic polymer shades george nelson s bubble lamps combine ingenuity with material innovation. In the 1990 s modernica reissued the bubble lamp line and named each individual bubble lamp design for example apple ball criss cross cigar lantern pear propeller saucer etc. The nelson saucer bubble pendant follows the same production process of the original design where a soft plastic is spray coated around a steel wire frame to achieve the shape. George nelson never named the different lamp designs and they were simply given numbers by howard miller.

They also come with a side of humor as the whimsically named saucer pendant whose wide shape flowing lines and ethereal glow references a ufo aptly demonstrates. The nelson saucer bubble pendant a wide saucer shaped ceiling lamp illuminates the space around it in soft diffused light as it floats overhead. Nelson bubble lamps unless ideas are massaged into reality they evaporate inspiration breeds ingenuity. First introduced in 1952 the nelson bubble lamps by herman miller are definitively mid century modern.

The lighting sale. The timeless nelson bubble lamps originally designed in 1952 beautifully complement contemporary interiors. These beautiful modern george nelson bubble lamps by modernica are in the permanent collection of the museum of modern art. A midcentury classic icon the modernica bubble lamp was first designed by george nelson in 1947 and was produced by howard miller from the early.