Triskele Lamp Shade
Plastic sheet
200 mm diameter x 250 mm
The three-pronged 20W "low energy, compact fluorescent light bulb" was the starting point for an exercise exploring the simple economic pendant shade. Designed to be mass-produced cheaply and efficiently, the shade is produced using a single stamping process, from a single sheet material with no additional fixings. Three identical tessellating "tuning fork" like shapes are bent and folded to create the cylindrical shade. Unlike the conventional shade, the Triskele is attached directly to the bulb rather than the pendent fixing. . Pin wheeling around the centre each piece forms a third of the shade's circumference each. The compression of all three sections holds the cylindrical form together, without the need for addition fixings.
