Mayday Table Lamp

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Konstantin Grcic designed the Mayday for Flos in 1999 as a deliberate provocation: a lamp that borrows its logic from the worksite, not the drawing room. The tapered opaline polypr opylene diffuser casts a soft, diffused glow, while the integrated handle functions as both a hook and a cord-winder, allowing the lamp to be suspended, set on a surface, or carried from room to room. What made Mayday radical at its debut was its refusal to disguise utility as ornament. Grcic treated utility as the ornament itself. The form follows its own internal rules with an honesty that has kept it in continuous production for over two decades. Tapered opaline polypropylene diffuser for soft, ambient light Integrated handle serves as hook and cord-winder Designed for suspension, surface placement, or portability 20th anniversary limited edition features a die-cast aluminum handle Show more