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Z-Lite Post-modern Lamp

Z-Lite Post-modern Lamp
Z-Lite Post-modern Lamp backstamp
Z-Lite Post-modern Lamp

1984 Z-Lite Post-Modern Lamp
Lamp swivels at eacj joint, so you can make the light a bunch of different shapes.

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ThriftyMlle's picture

Re: Z-Lite Post-modern Lamp

Fascinating!

 

postmodernnut's picture

Re: Z-Lite Post-modern Lamp

Have you ever turned it to different configurations?  We found one of these about 7 years ago and still love it.  Congratulations.

studiosmith's picture

Re: Z-Lite Post-modern Lamp

You bet. I think I have configured it every which way. I am a huge Mephis fan and this comes close.

nw3cat's picture

Re: Z-Lite Post-modern Lamp

Favorited immediately.  Very cool.  If you're inclined, would you share pics of some of the different positions? How many could you come up with?

studiosmith's picture

Re: Z-Lite Post-modern Lamp

Thanks for your comments. Just picture each shape being able to spin and flip. The shapes are endless. I did not take photos of the configs unfortunately.

modlectic's picture

Re: Z-Lite Post-modern Lamp

Fun! It's kind of like an industrial Rubik's Cube.

studiosmith's picture

Re: Z-Lite Post-modern Lamp

Sure is. I think there's a similar snake like hand puzzle that may have inspired this lamp, or visa-verse. An eBay buyer claims the first designed Z-Lite was 1968, but that just doesn't add up to me. This reeks of the 1980s, and was in fact designed in '84.