Mathilde Piel 
Semaphore, 2025 
Steel, stainless steel, light-emitting diode, electrical components 
6.3 x 2.4 x 1.1 inches
 
The Semaphore lamp explores light as a spatial potential. Flashlights are traditionally objects of direction — made to point forward, toward the elsewhere.This lamp inverts that gesture: it illuminates the here, holding space instead of aiming beyond it. Crafted to be carried with you wherever you go, this pocket artefact acts as an anchor point.The red light draws on a collective instinct — a signal of waiting, a moment of suspension, an invitation to settle.Wherever it lands, this small lamp becomes a spatial mark, letting place emerge from any space — offering a soft cue, a somewhere to anchor yourself.
 
Mathilde Piel is a multidisciplinary designer and recent graduate of Central Saint Martins, London.Trained in architecture, her practice is inherently spatial, approaching objects as artefacts in dialogue with their surroundings. By imagining new typologies, experiments and gestures of use, her approach seeks to open new ways of inhabiting space and to cultivate more free, interactive and sensitive relationships with our environments.
 
Photo by Aaron S Cheung, Esto.