Mgx supension lamp Damned

The Damned Lampshade is one of the works in which Gagat international reactivates historic imagery as a reference for their designs. The design of this lamp undermines several taboos imposed on design in the 20th century: it is figurative, ornamental, and narrative. The new questions about the possibilities of forms posed by this originate in a new understanding of technology. Technology no longer generates the forces, which determine the design of goods, but it enables an incredible range of possibilities and thus creates a new freedom of form.

Our answer to this new freedom is not the voluntary self-restriction usually applied in modern design. Instead we choose to roam freely in the myriads of possibilities given to us. Seen in this way design reflects the situation of the designer himself.