In design news, French designer Patrick Jouin unveiled his Bloom Table Lamp, a 3D-printed lamp that opens and closes like petals of a flower.

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Making use of a table, a lamp, the front of the stage and a cast of hand-drawn marionettes, The Paper Cinema told two classic tales.

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She puts it on her bedside table alongside a daylight simulation lamp and sets them both to come on in the morning to help her gradually wake up and then feel like getting out of bed.

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The lamp over the chart table swung crazily.

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On a table between the bookcases I put a tall candlestick lamp with a lampshade in Robert Kime's very pretty Pea Pods fabric.

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And that there was no longer any difference between what once had been my father and the table he was lying on, or the floor on which the table stood, or the wall socket beneath the window, or the cable running to the lamp beside him.

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