There is something about innovative design that just gives me a buzz and garners my admiration. Especially if it involves finding a new and better way of doing something that had not even been questioned before.
Take lamp shades. Beautiful once in place, but rigid, fragile, and bulky for shipping, storing or moving.
In a day when everything needs to be compactly shippable from door to door, how do you handle lamp shades?
Today I put together three lamps - two table tops and a matching floor lamp - in Melissa's remodeled office. Unassembled, all three lamps and their shades were encased in Styrofoam and shipped in a box that was maybe a foot and a half square and a foot deep.
Look how they solved the lampshade issue. The three lampshades were completely collapsed like this:
Three brackets easily snapped into place for each shade:
The material is pulled taut and the shade is good to go:
The final product:
I guess what appeals to me is this implied message: Don't settle for the way things have always been - maybe there's a better way to get the job done.
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