ZOOlamp: Wonderful Animal-Shaped Light Bulbs Turn Your Home into a Glass Menagerie

We've seen the full spectrum of <a href="http://inhabitat.com/index.php?s=light+bulbs">light bulbs</a> here at Inhabitat, but we have to say that these adorable animal-shaped <a href="http://www.yellowoffice.it/index.php/shops/zoolamp/">ZOOlamps </a>are by far the cutest. Designed by <a href="http://www.yellowoffice.it/">YellowOffice</a> and handmade in Italy by skilled craftsmen, the delicate creatures resemble parakeets, bats, blowfish and penguins - and each bulb is a work of art that you would certainly never want to cover up with a lampshade. Each kit comes with a CFL and a glass cover that can be removed and screwed off (if you're in Europe - they're working on adapting the covers for bulbs in other areas of the world), so that your ZOOlamp can live on even when your bulb dies out.

ZOOlamps come in 5 varieties: Pettirosso Erithacus rubecula, Pesce palla faraona Arothron meleagris, Pesce palla liscio Sphoeroides pachygaster, Pinguino reale Aptenodytes patagonica, Pipistrello Amazona autumnalis.

Or more simply: a parrot, a blowfish, a blunthead pufferfish, a penguin and a bat.

Each can be placed upright or upside down, which is particularly effective for the bat-shaped lamp.

You can even hang several <a href="http://www.yellowoffice.it/index.php/shops/zoolamp/">ZOOlamps</a> in a cluster or on a <a href="http://inhabitat.com/index.php?s=chandelier">chandelier</a> for an even more dramatic result.

While they might at first look akin to the regular bulbs you might see at Home Depot, upon further inspection it's clear that <a href="http://www.yellowoffice.it/index.php/shops/zoolamp/">Zoolamps </a>are actually individual works of art.

Each one is blown from world-renowned <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murano_glass">Murano glass</a>, meaning that just like real animals in the wild, no two are exactly identical. To order a ZooLamp of your own, email [email protected].