Omegna, Italy

American Prize for Design Laureate Alberto Alessi has introduced a bright, brazen collection of new luminaires by designers Shintaro Monden, Michael Anastassiades, and Alessandro Stabile, which garnered three historic 2025 Good Design Awards from The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design.

The Tsumiki LED lamp, designed by Shintaro Monden from the Japanese design studio Medum, has magnetic coupling elements allow the three lamp components to be freely orientated and arranged: the base, the bracket, and the lampshade. 

“By reconstructing the typical components of a table lamp—the shade, the stem, and the base—we designed a new way of lighting,” describes Monden.

“The shade attaches to the stem with magnets, allowing it to slide up and down and rotate 360 degrees in order to suit your preferences.”

The stem also has a built-in battery, allowing it to be detached from the base and be used as a portable light. 

Tsumiki means “building blocks” in Japanese. 

“Just as you can freely assemble blocks and play with your imagination,” we designed the lighting with the wish that people would creatively explore various ways to use it in their daily lives,’ Medum. he continues.

The lamp is available in black, blue, red, orange, and white. 

Born from Alessi’s partnership with Michael Anastassiades’ eponymous lighting brand, Halesia is composed of two perfect steel bells, clearly of botanical inspiration, which are placed one over the other to conceal the light source, designed to diffuse a ring of graded light in the immediate vicinity. 

Halesia’s solid body can be gripped intuitively: rotate the top bell to control the brightness, refining the ambience at the table as you please. 

An object that embodies a subtle poetic meaning in a sophisticated steel shell which, is a perfect synthesis of Alessi’s applied art practices.

“Halesia is a rechargeable table lamp designed to be operated through a sequence of intuitive gestures. The indirect illumination is perfectly considered to be atmospheric while dining,” states Anastassiades.

“The polished surface mirrors the table setting as well as the surrounding space giving the object a curious appearance.” 

Halesia Carolina is the scientific name for “Silver Bells,” a species of flowering plants commonly found in southern states and from where it was later introduced to Europe.

Bedin, by Alessandro Stabile, is an aluminum lamp with rechargeable batteries that upturns the classic proportions of these products, giving volume to the support base and reducing the lighting part, using pioneering technological solutions. 

The head houses a crown of LED lights, with brightness and color temperature control. The operation is particularly intuitive: simply press the head to switch it on and turn it to control the settings. 

“The name of the lamp comes from a recently discovered tiny galaxy, considered to be a fossil from the beginnings of the universe,” comments Stabile.

“I like to think of the LED crown as a tiny, wonderful dwarf galaxy, for a new aesthetic that is ideal on a table set for lunch or a contemporary desk.”

Bedin comes in three versatile anodized finishes that blend harmoniously into a variety of settings and contexts.