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Oblique Gets Right to the Point
Oblique: adjective, 1. “neither parallel nor at a right angle to a specified or implied line; slanting.”
![Oblique Floor schematic representation of angle of light](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Oblique-schematic-761x1024.jpeg)
Designers may not typically associate the idea of “oblique” with targeted lighting, but this is exactly what Vincent Van Duysen’s Oblique Floor does.
![Oblique Floor illuminating grey wall with sample floor tiles](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Oblique-with-wall-tiles-1024x799.jpeg)
Proposed to solve the problem of articulated arms and tilting heads (and the extra space they require), Oblique Floor, for Flos, uses a slim lens and concealed LEDs “to produce an extremely bright beam of light that falls ‘obliquely’ from the head of the lamp onto the lit surface.”
![luminaire detail showing small lens with concealed LED](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Oblique-detail-809x1024.jpeg)
![Floor lamp emitting light onto wall of rough stone](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Oblique-in-dungeon-1024x838.jpeg)
The lamp also features a “capacitative” button at the bottom of the luminaire head that allows touch-sensitive fine tuning of brightness/dimming to achieve the ideal illumination for a given context.
![two floor lamps black and green](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Two-side-by-side-with-stone-wall-1024x803.jpeg)
Oblique Floor is an updated version of Van Duysen’s original table lamp, designed in 2020.
![orange Oblique table lamp on table with books](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/TAble-version-1024x592.jpeg)
Both are available in multiple finishes: anthracite, sage, brown, rust orange, white, and grey. Oblique also features a discrete USB port at the base for convenient device charging.
![Oblique Floor base detail](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/USB-935x1024.jpeg)
Find out more at Flos. And go to 3rings for other examples of innovative LED lighting.
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