Equilibrium Lamp
Post-consumer recycled PP #5 plastic and lamp parts
7.5” diameter x 30” tall
2024
$625
Made to order: (leadtime four to six weeks)
Custom colors and sizes available
Materials / recycled PP #5 plastic base, lamp socket, brass fittings, fabric covered cord, Tala light bulbs, felt base
for inquiries please email info@codynorman.studio
all sales are final
Equilibrium is a lamp designed to showcase the irregularities that happen when melting recycled plastic. The plastic is collected from a network of local households and small businesses that donate their #2 and #5 plastics to the studio. This specific lamp is made primarily out of hundreds of yogurt cups.
The plastic is sorted, shredded, and extruded to make the lamp base. Although it is all #5 plastic, different companies use different blends which sometimes react when melted together.
The image below captures one moment of the hot extruded plastic building coil by coil while the CNC table below moves in a circular pattern.
Cody shown fitting an early protoype lamp body for scale.
Photo: Calvin Anderson
Photo: Calvin Anderson