I'm calling on the "experts" here, and when you see the object I'm talking about, you'll know why.  I'm wondering if it's at all possible, or realistic in any way, to model something like this in Blender.  Or any other software for that matter!  I don't know what the artist used to 3d print this thing, but apparently, someone somewhere actually modelled this thing.  I'm thinking the only way in heck would be to use something like Zbrush, but maybe I'm wrong.  Is there any way in Blender to do this kind of thing?  Any way to get it besides sculpting it??  I think it would make a crazy hard challenge for anyone to make without using sculpting tools.

Any ideas? hahaha.  I think it's a very cool looking lamp, but I'm most interested in how someone could actually model this thing with polygons.  I bet if it's possible, it would bring with it some very useful techniques and we'd learn a ton of new tools just getting through the steps.