undecim 2009

This lamp has been designed by Pierre Derks as a respons to three recent
developments: financial crisis, climate change and the light bulb ban by the EU.
Because of the absurd amount of switches it's hardly possible to make it work.

Undecim is latin for 'eleven' which is the number of switches (including plug).
Eleven has the meaning of being the number of madness (in Holland that is).
This reflects the usability of this iconographic statement.
 
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