Some designs shout, while others simply change the air, adjusting the tone of a space without ever demanding attention. Flamingo Grace, a sculptural lamp from RF Lab (ELTO Consultancy), sits firmly in the latter camp.
Designed by Chloe Liew, the piece draws inspiration from a flamingo mid-pause, that elegant, improbable stillness of the folded wing, and translates it into form using solid wood, clear glass, and a Himalayan salt core. A pair of slender bronze arcs cradle the mineral body, balancing mass and lightness, nature and craft. The result is less an object to admire and more an ambient, grounded, and thoughtful participant in the room.
With its dimmable 1900K light, a soft, peach glow somewhere between candlelight and the first minutes of dawn, the lamp sets a mood designed to decelerate. Whether used with its built-in lighting fixture or as a salt candle holder, it reintroduces rhythm into contemporary interiors that are often overstimulated and overlit.
RF Lab refers to this approach as part of their Embers of Peace series, an ongoing collection exploring emotional functionality in design. Here, lighting isn’t simply about visibility, but also about presence and objects that make space not only visually, but also psychologically.
Available in three sizes: S, M, and L, Flamingo Grace adapts to a range of environments: a corner of a reading nook, a gallery plinth, or beside a bed where brightness is often the enemy of sleep. It isn’t trying to be the centerpiece but it becomes the quiet one you notice when the noise fades.
There’s an honesty in the materials, the tactile rawness of salt stone, the hand-finished wood, the cool polish of glass, that resists the digital gloss of so many contemporary pieces. This lamp wasn’t born in a 3D render, but it was shaped by hand, with weight, warmth, and intention.
Photography by Zhang Jing & Acros Chen
