WOLOLOW 2.0 Scales Suuronen's 1968 Futuro House Into a Bedside Lamp

Arthur Koshatahyan and Kostya Trunov have scaled Matti Suuronen's 1968 Futuro House down to a bedside object. Their WOLOLOW Night Lamp Ver 2.0, now live on Kickstarter, compresses the Space Age architectural language of the Finnish prefabricated chalet into a compact tabletop luminaire no larger than an accent-table light.

The geometry is a direct miniature of the original building. An elliptical, disc-shaped hull carries a ring of oval portholes, echoing the fiberglass shell of Suuronen's portable chalet. A slender steel wire tripod, angled and three-legged, lifts the hull off the surface exactly as the Futuro's legs raised it off the terrain. When switched on, internal illumination projects through each aperture and accentuates the seamlines; when switched off, the sealed opaque shell reads as an autonomous retro-futurist desktop sculpture.

What changes in version 2.0?

The update targets the part practitioners care about most: the serviceable hardware inside. The previous generation ran on an integrated battery. The 2.0 edition replaces it with a hardwired power connection and a standard, user-replaceable 12V MR16 LED bulb on a GU5.3 base.

That swap changes the lamp's lifespan economics. A failed light source no longer retires the product. Owners can fit standard warm-white modules or aftermarket smart LED bulbs, which opens the fixture to wireless home automation protocols for dimming and RGB color adjustment. For a design whose value rests heavily on its sculptural shell, keeping the electronics replaceable protects the object itself.

Five finishes, from white to mirror chrome

The lamp ships in five distinct shell finishes: white, yellow, orange, sky blue, and mirror chrome. The chrome edition performs a second trick. It reflects surrounding ambient light and interior furnishings, so the shell changes character with its placement — a small act of responsiveness achieved without any electronics.

The silhouette stays fiberglass-inspired throughout, keeping faith with the material logic of the 1968 original even though the object now lives on a nightstand rather than a ski slope. The design, its authors state, captures the mid-century architectural transition toward mobile, prefabricated living pods — a typology Futuro House defined and one that tabletop scale now commemorates in miniature.

Compact overall dimensions position the luminaire as a bedside or accent table light, a deliberate contrast to the 1968 building's ambition of transportable housing. Koshatahyan and Trunov submit the project through designboom's DIY submissions feature, where readers publish their own work.

The Kickstarter campaign will now determine whether a scaled Futuro — chrome portholes, replaceable bulb and all — finds the audience its architectural ancestor never quite secured.