{"id":6345,"date":"2014-08-05T11:50:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T16:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/?p=6345"},"modified":"2014-08-05T11:50:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T16:50:55","slug":"optimist-lamp-by-cosima-geyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/optimist-lamp-by-cosima-geyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimist Lamp by Cosima Geyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cosima Geyer<\/strong>\u2019s 2014 Design Plus award winning <strong>Optimist<\/strong> is a table lamp with an integrated clamp made of surprisingly thin bent wood.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6346\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 560px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/optimist-1.jpg\" alt=\"Optimist Lamp by Cosima Geyer\" width=\"560\" height=\"470\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/optimist-1.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/optimist-1-332x279.jpg 332w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/optimist-1-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/optimist-1.jpg\">Optimist Lamp by Cosima Geyer<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOptimist is a delicate clamp luminaire made of bent maple wood, which can be clamped to any table with a thickness ranging from 10 to 40 mm.\u201d says the designer. \u201cThe clamp is made of a unique bending wood, which can be bent to extremes, thus creating the requisite tension without ever breaking.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 560px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/optimist-2.jpg\" alt=\"Optimist Lamp by Cosima Geyer\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/optimist-2.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/optimist-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/optimist-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/optimist-2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/optimist-2.jpg\">Optimist Lamp by Cosima Geyer<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe project focused on finding a delicate and innovative form to match the character of LEDs, and to express the respective possibilities. The luminaire is extremely thin, which is only possible through the use of LEDs (due to minimal heat absorbation, for the most part towards the back, and the small size of the LEDs). The back of the luminaire is made of aluminium, in order to enable swift heat absorbation, and thus longer-lasting LEDs.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 560px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/optimist-3.jpg\" alt=\"Optimist Lamp by Cosima Geyer\" width=\"560\" height=\"842\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/optimist-3.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/optimist-3-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sohomod.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/optimist-3.jpg\">Optimist Lamp by Cosima Geyer<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cosima Geyer\u2019s 2014 Design Plus award winning Optimist is a table lamp with an integrated clamp made of surprisingly thin bent wood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-6345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lamps-lights","tag-table-lamp"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.6 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - 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