Mayday Table Lamp by Flos was designed by Konstantin Grcic in 1998 and remains one of the most genuinely functional and widely imitated portable lamp designs in the Flos catalogue. Mayday's defining feature is an integrated carrying handle built directly into its diffuser housing, allowing the lamp to be picked up and moved from room to room, hung from a hook, or carried outdoors as easily as a bucket or toolbox — a design response to the simple observation that people frequently want to relocate their lighting and rarely have a lamp genuinely designed to accommodate this. Its considerable global commercial success since 1998 has established it as a genuine contemporary classic despite its deliberately utilitarian character.

The Mayday Table Lamp's robust, portable construction and integrated handle make it a genuinely practical lighting solution for workshops, studios, outdoor terraces and any application where lighting needs to travel with its user rather than remaining fixed in a single position. Its straightforward, unpretentious industrial aesthetic reflects Grcic's broader design philosophy of solving real functional problems with honest, unglamorous solutions, and its considerable commercial success has established it as a genuine design classic despite its deliberately utilitarian character. Its robust construction also withstands the wear of frequent relocation better than a conventional fixed lighting fixture.

Architects and interior designers specifying Mayday for residential, workshop and hospitality environments will find the DWG drawing and CAD block useful for furniture-surface coordination and portable-lighting planning. The 3D model supports BIM-accurate spatial documentation. A dependable specification for any project requiring genuinely portable, functionally honest lighting.

Available as a 2D DWG drawing and 3D model.