For Back to School 2026, CoccoleBimbi presents the lamp created through the collaboration between Seletti and BIC. The project celebrates the power of ideas: a pen designed for writing is transformed into a lamp made to illuminate, without losing its original identity.
Write, Imagine, Illuminate
Some objects are part of everyday life, while others transcend eras and generations to become true icons.
The BIC Cristal belongs to both categories: simple, instantly recognisable and a familiar presence for decades in pencil cases, on desks, in offices and classrooms.
For Back to School 2026, CoccoleBimbi welcomes the BIC Lamp, the striking designer lamp created through the collaboration between Seletti and BIC.
A project that takes one of the world’s most iconic writing instruments and transforms its silhouette into a statement piece for the home.
From Everyday Object to Design Icon
Designed by Mario Paroli, the BIC Lamp recreates the shape of the legendary BIC Cristal pen on a 12:1 scale, preserving its most recognisable features: the transparent barrel, the hexagonal structure, the coloured cap and the logo placed along the shaft.
The ink cartridge, however, gives way to an LED light source, transforming the pen into a lamp standing over five and a half feet tall.
Available in the three shades historically associated with the BIC Cristal — blue, black and red — the lamp can be used as a floor lamp, suspended from the ceiling or mounted on the wall.
An Object Rooted in Memory
The BIC Lamp was created to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the BIC Cristal, a pen that has accompanied generations through their first writing exercises, hastily scribbled notes, drawings made in the margins of a notebook and ideas captured on paper.
It is precisely this shared memory that makes the project particularly relevant to the Back to School world. The pen is not reimagined as a simple nostalgic reference, but as an enduring symbol of creativity, learning and self-expression.
Seletti amplifies its proportions through its ironic and unconventional visual language, taking an everyday object beyond its familiar context. The result is a striking presence that surprises, illuminates and invites us to look differently at something we are used to using every day.