Trabant Pendant Lamp by Joachim Manz
Joachim Manz designed the Trabant pendant lamp for German lighting manufacturer Tecnolumen. The lamps are concrete balls that hang on a thin wire, and on one end of the concrete ball is a glass lens (either matte or clear) that maintains the same curve as the rest of the ball. The lamps come in two versions, Trabant 1 has a thin lane in the concrete that allows rotating and tilting the lamp, while Trabant 2 does not.
Visit Tecnolumen’s website – here. Visit the Joachim Manz website – here.
Jolanta on 17 Feb 2009 at 7:37 am #
love this!!!
Zach on 17 Feb 2009 at 12:02 pm #
I love concrete as a material. I think it offers some wonderful possibilities and has a very beautiful appearance when handled right. I’m getting worried though at how much it is being used on things that it just seems out of place. There is another pendant lamp out there that is concrete, now this one, and we’ve also got someone making concrete jewelry. I worry that it is going to be overkill and will become a cliche material, and worse, create a backlash for those of us who use it in situations where it is appropriate.
Andrea Meini on 18 Feb 2009 at 1:57 am #
Surely a lamp in very good finishes. This is a subject that draws some of the work that I could see in all these weeks focused on the implementation of objects of light where the structure was built with stones or similar coatings. Excellent finish on wiring.
kast on 18 Feb 2009 at 9:53 pm #
stunning … are it’s heavy ??
alexandre on 24 Feb 2009 at 9:42 pm #
tasty!
Sherin Christopher on 11 Nov 2009 at 8:10 pm #
What is effeciency of each untit if these fixtures? Also, how many lumens doest it gives?
Last, what type of lamps doest it need? as, I would like to determin the efficacy (L/W), color temperature (K), and CRI. Thank you.