You can twist these modular lamps like action figure arms

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Plato Design

As micro apartments come into vogue, so too is furniture that's smartly designed for them. Even something as ordinary as a lamp has room for a redesign.

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Plato Designs, an Italian design studio, presented three variations of a modular magnetic lamp at Milano’s Design Week in early May.

Take a look.

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The studio introduced three designs at the festival, and debuted a Kickstarter campaign for early adopters. The most budget-friendly option, the Basic Twelve, is available for $45.

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Plato Design

The D Twelve is the middle of the road option, at $108 for a concrete, beechwood, or fabric-lined shade.

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The most lavish option, the Lux Twelve, won't be available unless the Kickstarter reaches its $25,000 stretch goal. It features a shade made out of walnut and polished brass.

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As the name suggests all the lamps have 12 sides (if you’re a tabletop gamer, you’ll know that dice are named after the number of faces they have).

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Plato Design

Three of those are magnetized, so you can stick up to seven lamps in a chain, or really in any layout you want.

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This solves a few problems inherent to traditional lighting setups: that they're not omnidirectional, not flexible enough to change directions on the fly, or nailed to the ground.

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Plato Design

To make the lights not only modular, but multi-functional, the designers made several add-ons available so customers can convert the setup into a wall lamp, a desk lamp, or a ceiling light.  

But in case you have more clams to throw down for these twistable lamps, there are 3, 5 and 7-packs.

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Plato Design

The studio's Kickstarter has already met its $17,046 goal as of writing, and has a delivery date of November 2016. 

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