Klopperlamp

2018

A kind of weird hobby of mine is looking at specialized manufacturing parts websites. I can spend easily a couple of hours browsing thru all parts of the online catalog. This lamp originated out of a site filled with end caps for steel drums. These caps are in all shapes and sizes. These are called 'beater bottoms'. In Dutch 'klopper bodems'.
The endcap shape became the inspiration for a lampshade. I liked the reflections on the base of the lamp, but the top was dark.. obviously. I didn't really like that half of the design wasn't visible anymore in the dark. So I made some mesh variants, circles, triangles, and woven, but the one that got stuck with me was squared.