The design company Mammalampa based in Riga, Latvia has launched The Bride, an organically shaped lamp available in various editions: suspended from the ceiling, as a table lamp or freestanding on the floor.
Each Bride is unique and handcrafted from pleated paper, in a pattern that looks like a blond female’s elaborate hairstyle. The Bride’s form has lightness, in all meanings of the word, but also a distinct individual female character. It spreads its light in a soft and varied ambience due to the varying thickness of the pleated paper and clearly illuminates the surface below the lamp. At a distance, in a dark room, the Bride may sometimes look like a traditional candlelit snow lantern made from stacked snowballs.
The Bride is one of several unique designs from Mammalampa, all featuring feminine attributes reflected in their respective names: The Wise One, The Queen, The Sisters and The Duchess. The Mammalampa team’s leading designer is Ieva Kalēja, who has a Masters degree from the Domus Academy in Milan and is supported by Inese Zirnīte, Varis Arājs along with two other partners.
April 25, 2014
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