Main Body A Lamp

Lamps get designed in sections, and this is the principal one: the main volume that everything else is arranged around, and the part that decides what the finished light looks like from across a room. The letter marks it as one option within a lettered set, the way designers label alternatives inside a single project. Bodies like this are the reason people print lighting at all. A shop-bought fitting arrives as whatever the manufacturer settled on, whereas a printed body can be redrawn or swapped for a different profile when the room changes, at the cost of an evening rather than a new lamp. It is aimed at the maker assembling a light rather than buying one, working through a build on a bench and choosing a body deliberately instead of accepting the one that came in the box.