The Ginger Table Lamp, designed by Joan Gaspar features an extraordinarily lightweight light disk, paying tribute to the drums of Ginger Baker of Cream, the 1960’s rock band.
With this collection, Gaspar resolves the challenge of using wood - a material that is so hard to mould, yet is desirable to use due to its strong associations with cozy lighting. He manages to achieve ultimate simplicity by using a design and method with great complexity. Through the use of high pressure shaping of several layers of wood and paper pressed together, a very thin laminate lamp plate is formed, that appears almost entirely flat. The Ginger can then light spaces with indirect light and achieve the discreet simplicity Gaspar aimed for 'objects have to be in a place without making noise, without clamoring for attention'.
