For his Fish Lamps series in the mid-1980s, he employed wire armatures molded into fish shapes, onto which shards are individually glued, creating clear allusions to the morphic attributes of real fish. In 2012 he revisited his earlier ideas and produced a new group of Fish Lamps, incorporating larger and more jagged elements, each unique and made by hand.

Frank Gehry: Fish Lamps is a series of five booklets and a folded poster in a slipcase that accompanied the presentation of the sculptures at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, Paris, London, and Hong Kong. Displaying the same attention to material qualities as the sculptures themselves, this edition features various page sizes with contrasting uncoated and high-gloss paper. Large-scale full-bleed images allow the work to speak directly to the viewer. Hand-bound with black thread, the books exude a similar sense of crafted luxury as the lamps themselves.