Knitted Lamp by Hella Jongerius

Hella Jongerius
Knitted Lamp, 1995

As a part of the ‘Dry Tech’ project, initiated by Droog Design and the Technical University Delft, the Knitted Lamp became one of the remarkable designs. Hella Jongerius knitted a cloth of fibreglass threads, strengthening it on both sides with Plexiglass. The bulbs that were put inside, pressed through the knitted fibreglass making the cloth follow the shape of the bulbs.

‘It was quite difficult to find a knitting factory in the Netherlands that dared to work glass fibres. So I had to make all the patches myself on the knitting machine. The bulbs press against the resilient glass cloth. That provides the lamp with a shape. The edges were reinforced with perspex. Because of its High tech background, I kept the form as flat as I could. It looks a bit spacy’, — Hella Jongerius, Eigen Huis & Interieur, November 1996.

The Knitted Lamp is a part of the MoMA and Centraal Museum, Utrecht, collections.