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Tokyo designer Kouichi Okamoto makes crazy cool lamps and other household objects inspired by everyday objects like lightbulbs, balloons, and flat screen TVs. The umbrella stand is really neat—it has a little patch of grass on the side that feeds off of excess water that drips down from the umbrella. And that white mountain range-like thing on the left is a soup plate that simulates the topography of a mountain range.
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