The Lamp That Doesn’t Try Too Hard

Let’s be real. We flick a switch and expect light — like it’s a birthright. But it wasn’t always this way. Back in 1879, Thomas Alva Edison was out here casually inventing the first commercially viable light bulb. Because what else do you do when candles just aren’t hot anymore?

Fast-forward a century or so, and here we are: drowning in LEDs, ring lights, and lamps shaped like croissants. The novelty is endless, but the soul? Sometimes missing.