Modernica George Nelson Saucer Bubble Lamp

Design Plus Gallery presents a Saucer Bubble Lamp for Modernica. Designed by George Nelson in 1952. While outfitting his office, architect and Herman Miller design director George Nelson discovered a silk-covered Swedish hanging lamp that he coveted but found too expensive. He then recalled seeing a photo in the paper of Liberty ships being mothballed “by having the decks covered with netting and then being sprayed with a self-webbing plastic,” which got him thinking. “And then, Whammo!” Inspiration struck, and by the next night, Nelson had designed his first Bubble Lamp by spinning a skeleton of steel wires on a turntable and shooting it with translucent plastic until it was covered in a smooth, washable film. “When you put a light in it, it glowed,” he said.

George Nelson Saucer Bubble Pendant by Modernica is a finely crafted piece of art which can impart a charming presence to your environs. It is part of a series of the renaissance in American design inspired by George Nelson in the 1940’s and 50’s, and redeveloped by Modernica since 1989.