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Seletti's Bic Lamp: A 5-Foot Tribute to the Iconic Pen

The Verge
January 19, 20263 days ago
This 5-foot lamp is a supersized tribute to the world’s most iconic pen

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Italian design brand Seletti has created a 5-foot-tall lamp resembling the iconic Bic Cristal pen. This supersized lamp replaces the ink cartridge with an LED light tube, offering up to 2,400 lumens. Launched at the Maison&Objet show in Paris, it can be hung, mounted on a wall, or used as a floor lamp. Available in red, black, and blue, it will launch in the US later this year.

Seletti, an Italian design brand known for everything from furniture to tableware, has debuted an unusual tribute to an icon of design: the Bic Cristal pen. To celebrate its 75th anniversary, Seletti has supersized the pen and replaced its ink cartridge with a long LED-filled tube to illuminate your living room, office, or that closet where they keep all the stationery at work. The Bic Lamp, as it’s simply called, was introduced at the 2026 Maison&Objet show in Paris – think CES, but for interior designers. Seletti says it was created at a 12:1 scale, which makes it just shy of six feet long given the Bic Cristal pen typically measures around 5.8 inches with its cap. Aside from its larger dimensions and the LED tube producing up 2,400 lumens of light, the Bic Lamp is a near identical clone, in red, black, and blue color options. You can hang it from a ceiling as a pendant lamp but Mario Paroli also designed the Bic Lamp to mount to a wall or stand alone as a floor lamp. It will launch in the US later this year where it’s expected to cost $350, according to Fast Company.

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