The Outer Borough Lamp (OBL) is a free standing modular floor lamp composed with one high-strength cast and polished concrete base and a two-piece steam-bent wooden arm that supports a pendant luminaire. The base geometry has sharp edges and a low center of gravity with a hole at the centroid for lifting and moving. Its shape is sloped to receive the two-piece wooden arm that attaches at the front & back of the base before sloping up to a 2.5 meter tall arc. A pendant fixture hangs from the top with its exposed power supply weaving down the arm to plug into the lamp base next to a switch.

Matthew Haseltine is a senior architect and designer at OMA in New York City. In his limited free time, Matthew designs and builds furniture and takes on small creative architecture projects for people in the local community. Matthew earned his undergraduate degree in architecture from the University of Michigan and his Masters in architecture at Princeton University in the US.

Metropolitan Space is an architecture & design studio focusing on custom houses, renovations and furniture. The Outer Borough Lamp (OBL) is designed as a statement piece of furniture, using authentic materials, with the flexibility to adjust to the language of another designer's pendant design.