Banana Lamp

Fruit-shaped lighting has been a design joke since the seventies, and the banana is the best of the bunch — a shape everyone recognises from across a room, with a long soft curve that suits a lampshade far better than it has any right to. This one turns that curve into a light source. It belongs somewhere it will be noticed: a kitchen counter, a bar corner, a student flat, a desk that already has a few odd things on it. The humour is the point, but the silhouette is clean enough that it does not look like a gag once it has been sitting there a week. The download contains five files, so it comes as a multi-part kit rather than a single print. A good gift for the friend whose taste runs to the deliberately daft, and a reliable conversation starter on a shelf.