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Sol LeWitt is seen as a founder of both conceptual art and minimal art. He believed that art did not necessarily have to be executed by the artist himself, or at all, the idea was art in itself.
LeWitt made more than 1200 wall drawings. He wrote precise instructions that allow others to carry them out. The Packlamp Wall drawing 853 was used by Jaap Elzas for a lamp. A smart, 30 cm high mood light with decoration of Wall drawing 853 by Sol Lewitt. Smart because the packaging is also the lamp. More lamp. Less packaging. And therefore less waste.
The gigantic waste mountain has been a thorn in the side of designer Jaap Elzas for years. A large part of this consists of packaging. Why does plastic, paper or cardboard have to be around everything? Could packaging and product also be one, Jaap wondered? He went to work with that idea. The result is the Packlamp: You simply turn the packaging over to reveal the lamp. With a beautiful image of a work by Sol Lewitt.
Two lamps by Jaap Elzas are included in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York.