content: 2026-06-21 capture run — 138 finds across 30 productive sources

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+name: "Flower Lamp — Yellow Tulip"
+subtitle: "A silk tulip frozen at peak bloom that's also a lamp"
+date: 2026-06-21
+link: "https://store.moma.org/collections/new/products/flower-lamp-yellow-tulip"
+linkText: "store.moma.org"
+source: "MoMA Design Store"
+topics: [gifts]
+tags: [lighting, botanical, design-classic, sculpture]
+description: "Mike Bliss's 1984 trompe-l'oeil tulip lamp — silk petals over a light source, frozen at peak bloom — is back in production at MoMA, and the soft diffused glow is genuinely useful."
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+Mike Bliss conceived these silk flower lamps in 1984 as a trompe-l'oeil object — a tulip frozen at peak bloom that also happens to be a lamp — and MoMA is re-issuing them. The joke is that it works: the soft diffused glow through the petals is genuinely useful while remaining entirely absurd as a design proposition. The piece lives in the productive space between sculpture and functional object, which is exactly where the best lamps tend to live.