Lagranja Design of Spain built the Bucky Lamp for Spanish lighting manufacturer Pallucco while paying tribute to Buckminster Fuller’s tensegrity structures,. The pendant lamp is composed of three blown glass tubes inserted with colored glass filters, and suspended on cables.
detail of the colored glass filters before insertion
Bucky and his tensegrity structure (below). (image via rw gray projects)
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