Hasta La Ideas

The shape of the original light bulb is a beautiful thing: Functional and manufacturable according to the glassblowing technology available at the time. The globular part distributed light more evenly and tapered down to the narrower “screw” part to keep light sockets a manageable size.

In the years since its invention we’ve seen the ugly spiral CFL shape and Philips’ alien-looking LED bulb, but now Alessi is really breaking the mold with their AlessiLux bulb collection, manufactured by Foreverlamp. Designed by Giovanni Alessi Anghini, Gabriele Chiave and Frederic Gooris, the AlessiLux bulbs come in more varieties than you can shake a stick at:

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