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Dezeen's top ten: lighting

For this month's top ten we've compiled our most popular stories about lighting from the last year. In pole position are these intricately-cut paper lanterns by London designer Yu Jordy Fu.

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2: architect Zaha Hadid takes second place with her light called Genesy for Artemide, launched in Milan in April.

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3: third most popular was a lamp made of reflective material, normally used for safety clothing, by Icelandic designer Kristín Birna Bjarnadóttir.

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4: a lighting installation in a frozen yogurt shop by London designers Cinimod Studio was fourth most-viewed.

5: Shanghai designer Zhili Liu's series of lighting inspired by birds was our fifth most popular story about lighting this year.

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6: our story about lighting exhibited by Dutch designer Pieke Bergmans in Milan was sixth most-clicked.

7: an exhibition of lighting at the V&A museum in London during the London Design Festival, called In Praise of Shadows, comes in seventh.

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8: in eighth position is a condom for light bulbs, created by German lighting designer Ingo Maurer in protest against European guidelines banning frosted incandescent bulbs.

9: in ninth place is this desk lamp that can be used as a light box by Hung-Ming Chen of Swedish design studio Hommin and Stockholm designer Ninna Kapadia.

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10: a collaboration between fashion brand Diesel and Italian lighting company Foscarini is in tenth place.

That’s it for this month.

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