This inventive brutalist lamp is actually made out of bacteria-based concrete

This brutalist lamp has a hidden material innovation you won’t notice at first glance. The lifestyle brand Normal Phenomena of Life (NPOL) has previously made $80 face oil out of fungi, $245 prints from algae-based ink, and a $5,000 jacket dyed by microbes. Next on the company’s list of innovative biodesigns? A $500 lamp that was grown in a lab.  The Gathering Lamp, which launched early this month in an ultra-limited run of 10, is a brutalist-inspired, 9-inch-tall light with a...