Reading by the light of your notebook? Been there, done that. Surprisingly, this wasn’t what inspired the japanese studio, Vinta, when they created the Butterfly lamp.

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“This light came from the idea of folding a piece of paper. The function of its adjustment of light and the space created by that are a result of simple action of one surface (the panel) being divided by two. ”

(source: tinsiders.blogspot.com)