Linelight is a twistable LED lamp

In the coming LED revolution, lightbulbs will no longer have to be lightbulbs. LEDs, which are just little points of light, can be arranged into any shape you want. And with Linelight, Swiss design firm Shibui has decided to place them in a simple, straight line.

Despite its stark, minimalist design, Linelight gets a nice pop of colour and whimsy from its fabric cable neck. You can twist the neck however you like — open it for reading or fold it down for ambient illumination.

The body of the lamp itself will come in four different colours: Dark grey, white, yellow or red. Shibui is officially debuting Linelight at the Paris tradeshow Maison et objet.

LEDs have let lighting designers throw out the old rules, experimenting with shape and form in ways their predecessors would have never thought possible.