Noticed by way of Instagram: handmade material lamps by Chamusquina in Spain. The mission of inside designer Catalina Alós, Chamusquina began as a collaboration between mates in Barcelona within the Nineteen Nineties and continues on that method. “In our small workshop we design and make our items with easy supplies: iron frames, linen materials, cotton, ribbons, ropes,” based on the location. “All our lamps are handmade, reduce, sewn, and assembled with nice enthusiasm. We connect nice significance to the heat of the sunshine filtered by the material.”
Check out a number of of the straightforward however ethereal, poetic designs—now coveted by all of us.
Images by way of Chamusquina.
Above: A have a look at the gathering. “The designs are unique, and in every of them we search for simplicity and high quality of sunshine,” based on the workshop’s website. “As we speak Chamusquina is made up of two enthusiastic, dynamic, and artistic mates who’re dedicated to accountable consumption and a constructive affect on society and the surroundings.”
Above: The Lámpara Colgante Duende ($119 USD) is made up of a linen shade and a silk-covered wire cable.
“From the start the designs had been very minimalist,” based on the Chamusquina website. “Our objective was to realize mild high quality by making the lamp disappear as an object. The iron buildings had been very high quality and the screens quite simple. Later we eliminated the construction and we had been left with the straightforward display screen that hung from a metal cable.”
Above: The identical form can be accessible as a desk lamp: the Lámpara de Mesa Duende ($119 USD). Above: Within the workshop’s early days, some thirty years in the past, “Our little expertise in electrical issues triggered some cables to ‘scorch’ us, and from there got here the title of our model” (the Spanish phrase for “scorch” being “chamuscar”). Proven is the sweetly named Lámpara Muffin within the “salmon pink” colorway ($130 USD for a smaller 14 cm measurement and $152 USD for a 22 cm measurement).
Above: And the lamp in off-white folded linen (additionally $130 USD for the small measurement and $152 USD for the bigger).
Above: The elements of a lightweight are stripped again fully to create the one hundred pc cotton Lámpara Bag ($65 USD), a “stunning pendant lamp,” based on the location, that’s hangable anyplace. The workshop notes that most of the lights—together with this one—ought to solely be used with LEDs, which aren’t solely extra power environment friendly however don’t get as scorching.
