The Ceci LED Lamp is a creation by Dutch designer Sander Mulder, who took inspiration from the famous surrealist artworks by Rene Magritte which begin with “Ceci n’est pas…” He would paint an object such as a pipe and write below it that it was not a pipe.
In this case, it would be “Ceci n’est pas une lampe.” That’s French for “this is not a lamp.” The relevance here is that what looks like a broken bulb is not, in fact, a bulb. It’s a lampshade made to look like a bulb. The actual LED bulb is inside it. When you switch it on, it looks like a broken bulb that’s still glowing. The outer bulb is made of pyrex glass, and the LED bulb inside is a 3-watt bulb.
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