Matin Table Lamp is designed by Inga Sempé for HAY, combining visual delicacy with physical robustness in a design of contemporary yet poetic character. The lamp features a steel wire bent frame that provides a structural skeleton of graphic precision and material lightness, complemented by a pleated cotton shade available in a variety of vibrant colours. The pleated shade introduces a tactile, textile quality that contrasts productively with the precise linearity of the wire frame beneath, creating a lamp that reads as both technically resolved and sensually warm.
The integrated LED light source provides a diffused, soft light appropriate to ambient residential and hospitality lighting contexts, and the digital in-line dimmer allows the light output to be adjusted to suit different times and moods within the same space. Inga Sempé's design approach — an interest in objects that are simultaneously practical and poetic, resolved and expressive — is fully evident in the Matin, which achieves its effect through the productive tension between the precision of the wire frame and the softness of the pleated shade.
The Matin Table Lamp is well suited to residential living rooms, bedside tables, and shelving settings where a lamp of warm, diffused light quality and considered material character is required. Its pleated textile shade and wire frame give it a visual warmth appropriate to intimate residential settings, and its vibrant colour range makes it an effective accent piece in hospitality environments and any interior context where the lamp's colour and material character are intended to contribute positively to the overall atmosphere of the space.
Available as a 2D DWG drawing and 3D model.