The Lamps

Where the studio came from

Hola began as a lamp design company. Not as a side project — as the whole business, designing and manufacturing lamps from the ground up.

That is where everything else came from. Learning production, sourcing, tolerances, and the distance between a good idea and something a person can actually buy is exactly the gap most clients now hire us to cross. We learned it by walking into it with our own money.

The products

Ombra changes colour with temperature. It is printed in a black that turns grey above 29 °C, so it changes where you hold or stroke it — a lamp that answers your touch.

Saturno, designed by Thomas Galvan, and Dione are a modular series — one system of parts, several products, which is a manufacturing decision as much as a design one.

Queen and King, both by Livia Stacchini, are a modern take on the oldest lamp there is: the oil lamp. Printed bioplastic stands in for the metal body, LED for the oil, and the tube bulb itself for the glass — and Queen’s crown shows its pattern when the light is on. Side by side, the pair reads like two chess pieces.

Ombra, Saturno and Queen debuted at Object Rotterdam, and the work went on to Edit Napoli, Dezeen, Forbes, Elle Decoration and Vogue Nederland. All the press is listed on the Studio page.

The stranger ones

A lamp built around a plunger, because the form was already right.

A lamp for dentists, shaped from a tooth.

Recycled Stories — a series made from failed 3D prints. A workshop producing prototypes also produces a bin full of near-misses, and they are better material than waste.

And Pixel City, Thorium, Quanta and Color Loud alongside them.

Simple Sockets

The one we were fondest of. One universal base, a cover in any shape and colour that twists on, and any bulb — on a table, a wall, a ceiling or as a pendant. It has its own case study.

Why it is still on the site

Because it is the honest answer to “have you done this before?”. Every lamp here went through sourcing, tolerancing, assembly, packaging, pricing and a launch. When we tell a client which parts of their plan will hurt, it is because we have paid for the lesson ourselves.