GAVIK table lamp
Designer Helena Svensson had just graduated from Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm when she was asked to design a glass table lamp for IKEA. A lamp that would come to be called GAVIK.
Glass is beautiful in its own right, thought Helena, which is why she wanted to make the most of glass as a material and create an integrated design where the foot of the lamp continues up and folds over itself to become a lamp shade.
The transparent glass would then create a layer-on-layer effect and the light would refract where it shines through the double glass. It wasn't possible to produce the lamp in one continuous piece, but because the lamp foot is also made of glass, the effect is the same when the light shines through the double glass.
Helena experimented for a long time with different sizes, glass layers and colors. One idea she had was to make the lamp larger, but with the small format GAVIK became like a sculpture in its own right, that can be placed a little here, there or everywhere to bring atmosphere to a room.
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