Brooklyn’s Head Hi is an art and design focused bookstore and cafe conveniently located a couple blocks from Seen.Today’s HQ. Since 2019, the front bookshop space has been transformed once a year to host the Lamp Show, an annual international exhibition of creative light fixtures. The 2022 edition features nearly 50 pieces from both seasoned and novice lampers (yes, that’s a real title).
The design of the fixtures span a wide spectrum from industrial design precision to hand made sculptures. An equally wide gamut is the choice of materials employed, especially for the more ready-made lamps. A browse around the exhibition reveals women’s stockings, a plastic cheese wheel from a shuttered market, a blender and a McMaster-Carr bucket each being repurposed into lighting fixture components.
Head Hi’s dedicated Lamp Show page has a nice studio shot of each piece. Most all of them are also for sale.
Elephant - Samuel Lambert & Darius Laprise, Lambert Et Fils
Elephant - Samuel Lambert & Darius Laprise, Lambert Et Fils
Kinky Lamp - Matthew Li
O/o Lamp - John Junior Kim
Eleni - Mike Newins, Make Nice Studio
Little Dipper - Minjae Kim
NF1 Sconce - Steven Bukowski (T) Ita - Gabriella Feuillet (M) Beth - Martha Abbott
NF1 Sconce - Steven Bukowski
STOCKS - Laurent Lavoie
STOCKS - Laurent Lavoie
Bungee Table Lamp - Jordan Maurice
Bungee Table Lamp - Jordan Maurice
Suyo Task Lamp - McKay Nilson
Socket - Selena Liu
Burning Down the House - Rhonda Weppler & Richard Winchell
Burning Down the House - Rhonda Weppler & Richard Winchell
Corrugated Sconce No1 - Andrew Jay Rumpler, Nine Stories Furniture
The Gazing Staff - Jessica Resler
Head Lamp - Jeremy Gecker
Bouvier Lamp in Birch - Marc Dainow, Voisine/Voisin
Glochid 01 - Ian Privett
Mellow Glow #4 ~ Lounger - Ryan Patrick Martin
Lithophyte Species (1 of 9) - Jake Coan
Blender Lamp - Franc Palaia
Air conditioner hose - Boden Taylor Holland
Gru - Valentina Tabacchi
Cliché 1974 - Antoine Laverdière
Bloomin’ Lumen - Bryce Peterson
McMaster Bucket Lamp - Tony Blahd
Zoom Shroom - Erik Karasyk
Hannah Pendant - Jimmy Mezei
Mutua - Bestia
CORKY - Lars Nielbock
Horizon - Anna Dawson
Lou Sconce - Hadley Feingold