10 Cutting Edge Brutalist Lamps and Lights for 2023

Meet “Vassily Brut”, a Brutalist lamp in grey clay and transparent glaze to imitate concrete made by hand in France.

Koen Van Guijze is a lighting designer with Brutalist and minimalist roots. He works with ‘authentic’ materials such as steel, brass, concrete, cork, ceramics, sand, and paper to create one-of-a-kind collectible lighting pieces and site-specific projects.

Light Composition is a Brutalist piece, which stems from an exploration of form prior to function, being an object that continues a series done before.

Crofit-20 has clear Brutalist qualities given its use of concrete. Depending on how you place the brick and in which imprint you put the lightbulb, you can play with the design and display it in different ways.

In “A Flanc de Falaise – Paysage” the light comes out of a crack in the stone and is reflected off the brass. The external treatment of the brass echoes the fragmented aspect of the stone.

This ‘Pipe, Rod and Brick’ tubular steel table lamp forms part of the Series O.F.I.S (Objects From Intersticial Space) by Lucas Muñoz, which is an ongoing research of industrial material’s potential for narrative.

Due to the war, many Ukrainians lost their homes and had to arrange their lives in temporary places of residence. The Roots of Home collection has an associative resemblance to an ancient Ukrainian hut, where the lampshade resembles a roof with a terracing of straw or shingles covered in the “tyruvannia” technique.

Inspired by the futuristic backdrop of skyscrapers and neon billboards of Hong Kong, the ‘Lattice’ Brutalist floor lamps are sculptural lamps created using a 3D latticing technique unique to additive manufacturing technology.

“252455615968443048” is a sculptural Brutalist mirror and lamp – a representation of a time when the sun dies. It represents the red giant phase, and it will last about a billion years before the sun collapses into a white dwarf.