Object Design
The Mia table lamp is a collaboration between designer Olga Agrikova and the Ceramum workshop.
“Mia” is a handcrafted bio-artifact found in a post-industrial void. Moving beyond conventional utilitarian design, the lamp exists at the boundary between a functional interior piece and an art object. It reinterprets the nature of light through a fusion of modernism, sculptural craft, and post-apocalyptic aesthetics, with a clear influence from the animal-like and fairy-tale imagery of Miyazaki’s universe.
Its cylindrical “head,” with viewing ports like eyepieces, turns the lamp into an autonomous observer and reverses the human-centered perspective: light is no longer for people, but a pulse born inside a sculptural form.
The materials shape Mia’s DNA. The rough chamotte base is not glamorous porcelain, but a fossilized skin and shell resisting external aggression. Its coarse, unglazed surface retains the maker’s handprints, like biological matter frozen in a post-industrial setting. The milk-toned natural felt shade acts as a sensory incubator and a soft box-like mind. Against tile and plastic, it softens noise and diffuses harsh electric light into a warm, pulsating mist.
Mia does not adapt to an interior. It creates its own zone of estrangement, turning its cord into an umbilical connection between a surviving ceramic creature and the outside world. Poised between farce and seriousness, it is a domestic talisman that has emerged from quarantine, ready for the upheaval and chaos of a new reality.
Every element of the base is handmade in the workshop’s own ceramic production facility.
The shade is made of milk-toned natural felt, with a metal frame. Linen cord length: up to 2 meters. An LED retro bulb with an E27 base is recommended.
Made to order. Production lead time: 21 business days, subject to material availability.