Rich Green Lamp 01 / INP / Kismas
The Rich Green Lamp 01 is two objects with no shared origin: a new steel base made by Kismas in Vilnius, and an original glass block salvaged from Soviet-era brutalist buildings across the Baltic states, produced in the 1970s and 80s to diffuse light through walls and facades. Mounted on an LED base with a 650-lumen, 3000K module and a dimmer, the block becomes a lamp. Its deep green colour and rippled, corrugated edges, originally shaped to grip mortar, read differently at each brightness, so dimming changes the object's character rather than just its output. The INP designation, for I'm Not Perfect, means the block carries visible but non-dominant cracks and production marks that Kismas selects for and works around. The provenance is not a story added to the product. It is the reason the product exists.
Design intent
- +Reclaiming architectural glass from demolition and warehouse stock gives a discarded material a second functional life; the provenance is the product's reason to exist, not a marketing layer.
- +Each lamp uses a unique salvaged block, so no two match in colour, texture or marking, and the dimmer lets the block's internal pattern be read across a range of intensities.
The Rich Green Lamp 01 is two objects with no shared origin: a new steel base made by Kismas in Vilnius, and an original glass block salvaged from Soviet-era brutalist buildings across the Baltic states, produced in the 1970s and 80s to diffuse light through walls and facades. Mounted on an LED base with a 650-lumen, 3000K module and a dimmer, the block becomes a lamp. Its deep green colour and rippled, corrugated edges, originally shaped to grip mortar, read differently at each brightness, so dimming changes the object's character rather than just its output. The INP designation, for I'm Not Perfect, means the block carries visible but non-dominant cracks and production marks that Kismas selects for and works around. The provenance is not a story added to the product. It is the reason the product exists.
Design intent
- +Reclaiming architectural glass from demolition and warehouse stock gives a discarded material a second functional life; the provenance is the product's reason to exist, not a marketing layer.
- +Each lamp uses a unique salvaged block, so no two match in colour, texture or marking, and the dimmer lets the block's internal pattern be read across a range of intensities.
Trade-offs
- -The blocks are finite, so the lamp is made in limited, irregular batches as salvaged stock allows rather than produced continuously.
- -The INP version carries visible cracks and marks by design; they are non-sharp and non-dominant, but a buyer should understand this is the premise, not a defect.
