Good Night Light: CW&T at SHINE

Cooper Hewitt award winners Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy made a bedside lamp for SHINE, the seventy-designer lighting survey curated by Harry Allen. When calm-tech makers turn to the bedroom, the bedroom changes.

A grid of eight participating designers and their lights from SHINE at NYCxDESIGN 2026 — Eight of the seventy designers in SHINE, curated by Harry Allen at The Seaport. Courtesy of NYCxDesign via Cool Hunting.

SHINE, the lighting survey hosted by The Seaport for NYCxDESIGN 2026, gathered seventy designers for a week-long show curated by Harry Allen. Sponsored by Kikkerland, presented with Cool Hunting. Among the production-ready entries is a bedroom lamp called Good Night Light by CW&T.

Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy have spent fifteen years making the case that calm technology is a craft tradition. Their Pen Type-B, a stainless steel cartridge holder with a sliding bolt action, is in Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. Their Time Since Launch ships a single button you press once, after which it counts the days. Putting their hands on a bedroom lamp is a quiet jurisdictional claim. The bedside table belongs to the same conversation as the writing desk and the wall clock. It deserves the same patience.

This is what we mean when we talk about a better relationship with existing technology. Light has been with us forever. The question now is what kind of object the bedside lamp gets to be when it stops trying to wake you up, sync to Spotify, or display the time in milliseconds. Harry Allen putting a CW&T fixture in a seventy-piece survey of lighting today is a small institutional vote. The bedroom is no longer the room design forgot.