Fossil by Neil Conley

Posted by Jess Knowles, 17th May 2012

Neil Conley's Fossil lamp manufactured from amberized borosilicate glass is intended as a living museum piece preserving Thomas Edison's first truly reliable filament bulb invented in 1880.

  

The lamp demonstrates the transition of the filament from an object of fundamental functionality to its place today as an icon of design heritage. A representation of the beauty of innovation, the bulb is now retired to a life behind glass, as a true industrial fossil.

The dimmer switch enables the user to 'breathe life' back into the filaments that set apart traditional bulbs from those many contemporary light solutions.


www.neilconley.co.uk