It’s pollen season, the time of sniffles and runny noses. Those of us who suffer from allergies might dread it, but for the Swiss art director Regine Cavicchioli and two students at the Zurich University of the Arts, Roman Jurt and Michael Kennedy, it was a source of inspiration.
“We reverse engineered nature, and we both find the result to be very, very aesthetic,” says Jurt in a video of how the pollen lamps were made. With a color-changing light inside the 3D-printed shell, the lamps look like shapes from another planet. Though, of course, they’re commonly found in our backyards.
The lamps come with a hefty price tag, ranging in price from $437 to $1,366. That’s a lot for a little bit of pollen.