I discovered 45 Kilo via Rezodesign and couldn’t stop thinking about the options for their Jack in the Box light. It’s a thin teak and steel floor lamp lined with sockets for all your devices from lights to hair dryers to screw drivers.
45 Kilo is Philipp Schöpfer and Daniel Klapsing who met at Bauhaus-University Weimar and collaborate on furniture, interior, exposition and interior design and installations.
What do you think of this design: customizable and versatile or a mess of cables?
hattie yoo on 06.04.2010 at 14:40 PM
this is so awesomee!
Brad on 06.04.2010 at 15:48 PM
Inverting a power strip does not resolve any of the clutter issues, and most products can’t (and shouldn’t) be suspended by their cords, let alone when their cords are just plugged into an inverted socket. You’re relying on the friction between two pieces of stamped steel to hold up your appliances? I hope none of them cost anything.
Also in the last picture – where exactly is this guy shaving hair off of and gluing it back on to?
If you want to install an inverted power strip, do what engineers have been doing since the 70s – flip a power strip over and install it to the underside of a workbench shelf. Like this: http://amzn.to/bg9Chs
JH on 06.05.2010 at 13:45 PM
wow…it’s very useful~!!!
trish on 06.06.2010 at 12:06 PM
messy cords hanging all over your workspace, nothing more than an inconvenient, suspended power strip.
trish on 06.06.2010 at 12:07 PM
also the base is very large, placement wise it would hard to fit it into a good space.
Katie on 06.06.2010 at 14:17 PM
This really depends on the space you are using. I live in an efficiency apartment with 2 power outlets.I could probably figure something out like this, but really for every day use it would seem jumbly.IF it had individual cord retractors, then it would be something new and completely useful, but unless properly balanced, the weight of the items hanging would tip it. an aframe would do a better job… brainstorm on brainstorm… I have resorted to moving the main power to a center pole in my room with power strips attached. It’s not cute, or artistic, but it works