Clouds are the most beautiful creation of nature. They are mostly associated with weightlessness and emotions – whether happiness, sadness or imagination. Everyone tries to find their favorite character in them. They appear like white cotton balls drifting across the blue sky in slow motion. Continuously changing dimensions and forms make them a perfect source of inspiration for designers seeking out new design ideas. A lamp inspired by the fluffy form of clouds is a great example.
The cloud lamps are a great centerpiece for any room. They are so beautiful that you will definitely end up buying or creating one.
Here is a collection of some of the most awesome cloud lamps designed to bring flashes and peals of thunder to space.
# How about a floating cloud Bluetooth speaker that can set your desk alight while playing your favorite music and floating in the air? It is designed by Richard Clarkson and Studio Crealev. The specialty of the floating cloud lamp are the built-in Bluetooth speaker and sound-reactive LED lights that deliver close-to-reality effect of thunder and rain. It uses magnetic levitation to float over its oval base. It costs $4,620.
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Image: Crealev/Richard Clarkson
Image: Crealev/Richard Clarkson
Image: Crealev/Richard Clarkson
Image: Crealev/Richard Clarkson
Image: Crealev/Richard Clarkson
Image: Crealev/Richard Clarkson
Image: Crealev/Richard Clarkson
Image: Crealev/Richard Clarkson
Image: Crealev/Richard Clarkson
# This DIY cloud lamp is beautiful and easy-to-build. You can make one with a plastic ball, cotton, and LED lights. Try making one at home to impress your family members.
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Image: CNET
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# These attractive paper pendant lamps can spruce up any home interiors. Japan-based 24-Degree Studio makes these Airy lampshades from tear proof and washable laminated Japanese rice paper. Inspired by lightweight form of clouds, this lamp collection can add stylish touch to any living space. Price staring from $70 at 24-Degree Studio.
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Image: 24-Degree Studio
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# New York-based designer Richard Clarkson created this amazing audio-visual cloud-shaped pendant lamp. With built-in lights and speaker, it offers a cool lightening effect and roars of a real thunderstorm. Amazing, isn’t it?
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Image: Richard Clarkson
Image: Richard Clarkson
Image: Richard Clarkson
# Designed by Italian architect and designer Mario Bellini for Nemo Lighting, the Nuvola suspended lamp is made of natural opal polyethylene. The shape of cloud helps it creating a dreamy atmosphere.
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Image: Nemo Lighting
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Image: Nemo Lighting
# Designed by Andreas Hopf and Axel Nordin, this cloud-like ceiling lamp will look great above a dining table. Each pendant has a brass panel underneath that emits light in a unique, angular pattern that mimics a sliced meteorite.
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Image: Hopf Nordin
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Image: Hopf Nordin
# Designed by New York based Apparatus Studio, this cloud lamp is made of glass orbs frosted by hand. There are central light sources emitting a soft glow that is refracted through the cluster of orbs. Available in three versions with different number of glass orbs.
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Image: Apparatus Studio
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Image: Apparatus Studio
# Margje Teeuwen in collaboration with Erwin Zwiers created the Proplamp. The best thing about the cloud suspension lamp is that it is made of recyclable nonwoven material, which allows it to be reshaped over and over again. Means you can crush it to tailor-make your own design.
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# This cloud lamp is designed by Frank Owen Gehry for the Swiss lighting brand Belux. Each lamp comes with a paper-like shade with an invisible light source in the centre. These lamps are available in different sizes and models.
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Image: Belux
# This is a cool idea to repurpose old soft toys at home. A DIYer shared an Instructable to make this mushroom cloud lamp from cotton, hard wire, and light bulb. Cool, isn’t it?
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# Designed and made in Holland, the Jacob pendant lamp is made of laser-cut Polypropylene triangles. The lamp is adjustable and you can change the shape by moving the triangles. Each unit has two cords, allowing you to make two smaller lamps.
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Image: studio met
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# French designer Mathieu Lehanneur made this glass-blown lamp. Extremely complex steel molds are used to give cloud-inspired shape to the glass lampshade.
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Image: Mathieu Lehanneur
# Designed by Lilly Ingenhoven, Cloud 9 is a wall-mounted light designed for Copenhagen-based lighting company Sygns. It is part of the series “Le Petit Prince” that draws inspiration from the same titled book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This cloud-shaped neon light has identical references to characters in the book.
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Image: sygns
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# This pendant lamp in shape of cloud is designed by Toyo Ito for Italian lighting company Rotaliana. It made of five thin amoeba-shaped acrylic plastic layers, piled one on top of the other, and cut in an amoebic shape.
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Image: Rotaliana LIghting
Image: Rotaliana LIghting
Image: Rotaliana LIghting
# This feathery cloud lamp is designed by Tilen Sepič. He designed it as part of the Lighting guerrilla workshop in LjubljanaIt. It is a beautiful ceiling lamp that combines aesthetics with functionality.
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Image: Tilen Sepič
Image: Tilen Sepič
Image: Tilen Sepič
Image: Tilen Sepič
Image: Tilen Sepič
# Inspired by the poem of Xu Zhimo, the Chinese designer Zhao Liping conceived this cute cloud lamp. He designed a floor and a pendant version.
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Image: Zhao Liping
Image: Zhao Liping
# Made from thin 1mm translucent APET plastic, this cloud-shaped lamp is designed by Adamlamp. The unique structure consists of triangle mesh system. It provides diffused light to enhance home settings.
Image: Behance/Adamlamp
Image: Behance/Adamlamp
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Image: Behance/Adamlamp
# Designed by Wout Wessemius, Le Nuage is a handmade pendant lamp in shape of a cloud. Each lamp is made of polyester wadding. It serves both decorative and functional purposes.
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Image: Wout Wessemius
Image: Wout Wessemius
Image: Wout Wessemius
Image: Wout Wessemius
Image: Wout Wessemius
Image: Wout Wessemius
# Caitlind r.c. Brown and Wayne Garrett designed and installed this cloud-esque lighting installation in the Progress Bar in Chicago. It uses motion sensors and more than 15,000 light bulbs.
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Image: Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett
Image: Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett
Image: Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett
Image: Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett
# This is a custom hand-sculpted lighting installation by Graypants at Airbnb headquarters in San Francisco. The cloud chandelier is made of 25,000 Ping-Pong balls, each attached by hand to make it look like a glowing cloud.
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Image: Graypants
# Canadian artists Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett made this interactive light installtion. This cloud-shaped sculpture is made of 6,000 incandescent lights!
Image: Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garret
Image: Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garret
Image: Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garret
Image: Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garret
Image: Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garret
