The giant talking lamp of Lilla Torg square Bashny.Net

Every year on the 15th of December, just before Christmas, on the Lilla Torg square (Lilla Torg), in the Swedish city of Malmo, there is an amazing sculpture-installation in the form of a huge table lamp with shade. Unusual lamp is one of the most popular tourist attractions of Malmo, and is also useful as decorative and functional decoration of the city. After all, this lamp not only lights ulicus night. By day she serves the citizens and guests of the city a place to stay, because the lamp base is a seat on which to sit so comfortably, considering the people passing by.





Huge table lamp, reaching a height of 5.8 meters, has a permanent place. All year she roams around the city, decorating different streets and squares of Malmo, but in December it necessarily goes back to Lilla Torg. Here it and find travelers and guests of the city. Near the sight of the man clearly feels how small and fragile it is, even if in reality it is not. Sounds like you landed in a fairy tale, Alice in Wonderland, and accidentally drank a bottle labeled "Drink me."









This lamp, however, is not just a sculpture, but a full street lamp. And when the evening in the square the lights, it gives so much light that replaces a number of the usual city lights. Looking out the giant lit a lamp, it seems that he was on a visit to Gulliver, and suddenly becomes so nice and cozy home. Of course, a romance and couples do not miss the opportunity to sit down and relax under the warm cozy light of a lamp. And sometimes to talk to him. The lamp knows how to talk, metallic voice of the robot, however, only a few sentences, and only in Swedish.

Talking table lamp appeared on the streets in 2006, and over the years has become one of the favorite art projects not only visitors, but also inhabitants of malmö.





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