Danish Luxury

Discontinued. First made in 2013; no longer made.

Design Lighting HAY

Rope Trick

An LED floor lamp Stefan Diez designed for HAY in 2013, its shade held up by a stiffened rope; no longer made.

Designed by
Stefan Diez
Made by
HAY
First made
2013

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Rope Trick in yellow beside a lounge chair; HAY's site (archived 2017)
Rope Trick in yellow beside a lounge chair; HAY's site (archived 2017)

Pictures © HAY, from hay.dk (archived pages).

Why it is renowned

The Museum of Modern Art in New York took the Rope Trick Floor Lamp into its collection.12

The story

Stefan Diez designed Rope Trick for HAY in 2013.2 It was a floor lamp whose shade was held by an upright, strengthened rope. A click device on the rope let the shade be moved, changing the distance and the intensity of the light, and the lamp used LEDs.3

Sources
  1. Stefan Diez, MoMA. moma.org, read 1 October 2026.
  2. HAY (company), Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org, read 30 September 2026.
  3. Rope Trick, hay.dk (archived 2017-11-07). web.archive.org, read 7 October 2026.

Last checked 7 October 2026, against the maker's own pages.