A Canned Food Can as a Pendant Light

Ingo Maurer ’s “Canned Light” transforms the familiar American canned food can into a pendant light. The “Campbell’s Tomato Soup” can—made famous by Andy Warhol’s paintings—becomes a lampshade at Ingo Maurer . Christoph Matthias and Hagen Sczech came up with the idea for the Canned Light design in 2003. The Canned Light looks like a can, but instead of food, it’s filled with a light bulb, reflector, socket, cable, and switch. When the can is opened, you’ll find the mounting hardware inside. Once assembled, the Canned Light is infinitely height-adjustable thanks to a pulley and an adjustment ring. The cable is 200 cm long. The light fixture consists of a tin can, aluminum, stainless steel, and plastic. The light from the Canned Light shines directly downward from inside the can.