"Light is not interesting without darkness," observes designer Mathias Hahn. His award-winning, dimmable LED lamp called flirts with this postulation. Named for the Greek goddess and mythical mother of the sun and the moon, Theia combines two half-spheres—in opaque metal and smoky plexi—to provide light and, depending on how the shade is swiveled into place, create intriguing areas of shadow. Theia can rotates effortlessly from its front-facing orientation as a reading lamp to a more subtle indirect illumination.