latvian design company mammalampa focuses on producing lighting objects, declaring a gentle war on making lamps without adapting, killing or violently beautifying materials.
‘mass production rules. technology is king. human whims dictate product functions. but bored by plastic, we yearn for living beauty.‘
their lamp, ‘the wise one’, utilizes the core of a tree stump, hollowed so that it becomes an open cylinder. used as a lamp shade, it provides a warm glow within its surrounding environment.
'there is no real, defined space, there’s just the reflection’ – designboom speaks with Hermès artistic directors charlotte macaux perelman and alexis fabry.