Tripop: Where Space Age Whimsy Meets Portable Light  

Tripop: Where Space Age Whimsy Meets Portable Light  

Some objects arrive looking like they’ve traveled. Tripop, designed by Matteo Cibic for Italian house Multiforme, is a portable rechargeable lamp disguised as a tiny glowing planet. A milky blown-glass sphere studded with fat, glossy polka dots in red, green, or blue.

It feels mod. It feels mischievous. It feels like a souvenir someone smuggled back from a moon mission.

The dots are pure Murano theater, applied hot so they fuse into the surface and catch the light from within. Set on a slim chrome puck of a base, the orb reads less like a lamp and more like a small, glowing planet placed politely on a console.

Because Tripop is rechargeable and dimmable, it wanders. Drop a cluster on a boutique hotel check-in desk. Line a few along a co-working lounge bar. Float one on a banquette in a restaurant where the lighting plot needs a little wink.

It joins a wider conversation in sculptural glass lighting, but trades drama for delight. Primary, playful, and quietly collectible.

Images Courtesy of Multiforme

Three glowing Tripop portable rechargeable lamps by Matteo Cibic for Multiforme, featuring white Murano glass spheres dotted in cobalt blue, lime green, and bright red atop polished chrome bases.

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