Contemporary Lamp Design—The 1970s to 2000

Lighting designers in the 1970s experimented with new materials—plastics and other synthetics—and new sources of illumination, including halogen bulbs, fluorescent and neon tubes, and LEDs (light-emitting diodes). The neon Asteroide floor light (1968) and the Alogena series of halogen lamps (1970) are examples of these innovative designs. The oil crisis of the 1970s led to […]