British designer Ewan Cashman has created a cement and wood floor lamp based on the shapes of spinning top toys he played with as a child.
The Pumpal light is named after the Bulgarian word for the spinning toy and features a circular white base that tapers to a point, attached to a long slender wooden body. Cashman based its shape on wooden spinning tops his mother made on a lathe when he was growing up.

The base is composed of hollow concrete, and provides the weight and balance that allows the lamp to be rotated 360 degrees ? as a spinning top could be.

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"I wanted to create an object of playful engagement as well as practicality," Cashman told Dezeen. "I like the idea of taking the form of a toy that we all understand and recognise, and seeing what practical purposes can be discovered from it."
A strip of LED lights is housed in the lamp's body and covered in light diffusing plexiglass. The light's cement and wood sections are joined together with a hollow steel rod used to transfer wiring as well as reinforce the structure.
"My background is in architecture, so I am often thinking about these materials, and ways in which I would like to see them being used and combined together," said Cashman.

"I would love to see a Pumpal family being used in an environment where perhaps the lighting requirements are varied, thus the lamps and their ori...