Danish designer Mads Odgård stripped away anything unnecessary when creating this series of minimal lamps for Carl Hansen & Son, which feature hemispherical shades that intersect with simple metal tubes.
The MO Series lighting collection began life as a personal project for Odgård, who couldn't find a suitable lamp to use at his summer house in Sweden.
During a presentation at Carl Hansen & Son's Stockholm showroom, Odgård explained that the first prototype was made by combining a salad bowl from Ikea with the inner cardboard tube from a toilet roll.

"I didn't set out to design a lamp for a certain company, I was just looking to create a lamp I liked that gives me a sense of security when I see it," he said.
Asked why he associates the design with security Odgård added: "When you see a lamp it gives you a feeling of comfort, wherever you are. If you're in a Swedish forest or a hotel room, even if it is turned off you know you can switch it on when it gets dark." This theory about safety comes from a research project Odgård completed in collaboration with Aalborg University and the Technical University of Denmark that examined the psychology of light.

The lamp uses simple, easily recognisable forms associated with familiar lighting archetypes, which helps to enhance its reassuring aesthetic.
The two main shapes that are repeated throughout the collection are a hemisphere and a cylinder. According to Odgård's research, using a sphere or par...