MultiPot Table Lamp

By Shawn Willis

ou can't accuse Italian designers Dante Donegani and Giovanni Lauda of cranking out work thoughtlessly. Their latest little MultiPot, a multifunctional lamp in the form of a vase, is pure genious, as it combines an LED ambient light and serves as a space to keep cables neatly stored.

Glossed with a fine high-design sheen, courtesy of a brisk vase-shaped form, the hybrid, MultiPot belongs to a new generation of lighting objects and is the first of Rotaliana products to combine a lighting function with a semi-opaque finish in order to filter the light while hiding the electrical cables. In the process, this viscerally designed product works an effective space-saver, delivered with the grandstanding swagger of a showcase designer item.

With the stability of injection-molded polypropylene and simple, modular design, the MultiPot is a picture of elegance with functionality, solving the problem of a messy tumbleweed of electrical cables by hiding the cords - or sockets, objects or whatever - in one tidy container. MultiPot is available at 1-800-713-2182, or http://www.multipotusa.com