These luminous sculptures shaped like peeled bananas, evocative of the American Pop Art movement, were created by the Belgian artists at Studio Job. The Banana lamps were created initially in limited editions for the Art Light exhibition at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris. Seletti then decided to mass-produce these wacky, offbeat lamps, replacing the bronze with golden resin. The long, slender diffuser is made of glass. The banana is the most popular fruit in the world. The Banana lamp is a reference to the other popular Pop Art icons, for example the Campbell’s Soup Cans, Dollars Signs and Coca-Cola Bottles. These ultra-realistic lamps shaped like peeled bananas are inspired by the Andy Warhol movement : they are a positive representation of something we see everyday, something everyone can recognise. Objects are portrayed in their simplest and most recognisable form. Once transposed onto a canvas or another medium, even the most common trappings of our modern civilisation, like a simple banana, can become works of art. Studio Job brings together two free spirits, Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel, renowned for their rebellious, non-conformist way of creating a unique world. The Flemish couple work in both the industrial world and the world of art and design on projects combining craftmanship and a highly expressive avant-garde language rich in symbols, often for limited editions.

In detail:

Variation : Dewey / Yellow

Brand : Seletti

Designer : Studio Job

Type : Table lamp

Colour : Yellow / White diffuser – Black cable

Material : Skin: resin – White diffuser: glass

Dimensions : L 33 x W 23.5 cm x H 19 cm

Weight : 17.6 lb

Characteristics : Created as part of the Banana Lamp Series (2015) art project – Peeled banana shaped lamp, originally created in a limited edition for the Art Light exhibition – Dimmer on cable – LED source included:: 6W, 3000K, 480 lm – Supplied with EU plug: EU to UK plug adapter included

Country of Manufacture : China