Lotus table lamp

GUBI's Lotus table lamp shows what Murano glassblowing can do in the right hands – and few hands were more capable than Carlo Nason's. Born into a Murano glassblowing family, the Italian designer devoted his life to exploring glass and everything it could do. The Lotus lamp is one of the loveliest answers he found: a lamp with quiet poetry that fills a room with soft, diffused light.

The Lotus table lamp first appeared in 1969 under the rather less romantic name LT305. The nickname came later from the shape of the luminaire, where four individually mouth-blown glass shades nest inside one another like the petals of a lotus. A carefully considered, almost invisible steel structure holds the shades together while protecting the bulb. The original LT305 lamp was made for only a few years, which is precisely what turned it into a collector's prize. GUBI has now brought the iconic lamp back, staying as close to Nason's design as possible and touching only the inner structure, where a few small changes have made the lamp steadier still.