Seletti, an Italian design brand recognized for every part from furnishings to tableware, has debuted an uncommon tribute to an icon of design: the Bic Cristal pen. To rejoice its seventy fifth anniversary, Seletti has supersized the pen and changed its ink cartridge with an extended LED-filled tube to light up your front room, workplace, or that closet the place they maintain all of the stationery at work.
The Bic Lamp, because it’s merely referred to as, was launched on the 2026 Maison&Objet show in Paris – suppose CES, however for inside designers. Seletti says it was created at a 12:1 scale, which makes it simply shy of six ft lengthy given the Bic Cristal pen usually measures round 5.8 inches with its cap. Other than its bigger dimensions and the LED tube producing up 2,400 lumens of sunshine, the Bic Lamp is a close to an identical clone, in purple, black, and blue shade choices.
You may dangle it from a ceiling as a pendant lamp however Mario Paroli additionally designed the Bic Lamp to mount to a wall or stand alone as a ground lamp. It can launch within the US later this yr the place it’s anticipated to price $350, according to Fast Company.
