Bake Me A Cake by Morten&Jonas

The Norwegian duo strikes back once again. The two young designers from Bergen Academy of Art and Design have released a lovely and playful table lamp conceived with a brilliant link to“the cake with the file”, a classic slapstick story wherein a loving mother inserts a file into a cake that she baked for her beloved imprisoned son to let him escape from jail.

This table lamp is purely delightful: made out of oak wood and smoked colored glass, it is also extremely functional, since it just requires to lift up the glass in order to change the bulb. Thanks to the tinted glass, a dim light is effectively mimicked.

If at first sight this contemporary lamp seems the best complement in every master chef’s kitchen, a perfect reproduction of cake display cases. The most interesting part of the story is off-stage: hard to guess, this amazing project has been reproduced by the inmates in Bergen prison, thanks to a smart collaboration among the designers, Kriminalomsorgen region vest (the Norwegian correctional services) and Northern Lighting.

As a matter of fact, the project itself is aimed at challenging the inmates’ way of thinking and acting through the creation of high quality pieces of design inside Norwegian prison. This time social initiative meets functional design: inmates have the possibility to carry meaningful activities while living behind bars, and the result of this non-conventional collaboration is just striking. The “Bake me a cake” table lamp is a charming approach to the vast world of cakes, an unpredictable proposition of a tool traditionally destined to another usage. It’s not only a match between social and visual, but also between culinary tradition and technical innovation.