The Construction Lamp looks like oil derricks you see dotting the landscape in parts of Texas. Their industrial aesthetic is the result of the designer Joost van Bleiswijk playing with the nuts, bolts, and tools in his workshop as though he was still a kid.

These Edison Lamps aren't using any modern LED technology, but they sure capture the look of the era from which the lightbulb came quite nicely—something refreshingly simple

Got $25, a desperate desire to re-use garbage, and questionable taste? With Satechi's new Touch USB LED lamp you can transform an empty soda bottle, wine bottle, even a water bottle into a warm desktop companion free of pesky switches.

The Delta Lamp lets you recapture the fun of middle school rubber band balls, without landing you in detention. Plus, it's an outlet for all your creative energy.

It's taken a while for the humble LED to gain a foothold in the broader consumer market—blame artisanal culture or simple force of habit, people love their cream-colored incandescent bulbs. But as the New York Times devoted 1600 words to explaining yesterday, more and more designers are jumping on the LED bandwagon.…

It's the middle of the night and you're in the middle of nowhere when—whumpa, whumpa, whumpa—you get a flat. Rather than fumble through the tire change in the dark, why not keep this portable LED lantern in the boot should the need arise?

Lamps can be pretty, but there are few quite as versatile as Konstantin's Grcic's OK Lamp. Both a ceiling fixture, but also kind of a floor lamp, its rotating LED panel can cover almost any possible angle. And it's form is the marriage of new tech with decades-old design.

In Greek mythology, Ariadne is known as the mistress of labyrinths. She's also associated with weaving and in some traditions, she hanged herself. This jointed lamp—Baldessari's Arianna—was inspired the goddess.

These lamps by designer Patrick Hartog are inspired by the large posts—called mooring bollards—on ships and shore used to tie vessels down so they don't float away. Instead, these slip-casted ceramic replicas are tethered to your ceiling. Gorgeous. [Patrick Hartog via Uncrate]

A floor lamp isn't typically a place you'd expect to find a lot of personality, but this one showcased at the Milan furniture fair has plenty of it. You'd half expect to see it prancing around on screen before a Pixar movie.