Wicker Lamps From Created In Mimbre

This gorgeous collection of wicker lamps makes us feel of a tightly knit family members of 3. Medusa, Chinita and Bellota are born from a very fascinating collaboration between star Scandinavian designers Claesson Koivisto Rune, the young label Created in Mimbre and Chilean wicker weaving artisans. The idea behind this collection is that of employing nearby artisans to develop modern objects in a professional context and in so performing preserve their wicker weaving strategies. Not only is there excellent potential and intrinsic value in the handicraft of these lamps, but the high quality of the light they diffuse is fantastically warm and atmospheric. In honor of the origins of the manufacturer, the designers have selected to give the lamp designs Spanish names: MEDUSA, CHINITA, BELLOTA.
The MEDUSA lamps, with their oval-shaped lampshades, appear to balance on numerous thin, spindly supports. Rather than trimming the excess lengths of wicker, as is usually accomplished, the designers kept them and hid 3 thin metal legs amongst them. The resulting styles remind us of jellyfish, floating, with their numerous trailing tendrils. Practically as if they have been nipped and then pulled, 4 ‘feet’; appear to have been stretched from the bottom edge of the CHINITA lamps. The result is a series of lamps with a cute, creature-like character. Like little, friendly bugs. Like ladybugs, for example. The BELLOTA suspension lamps are two, similar types combined to make a entire, but still stay independent. In keeping with the nature theme, the inspiration for the BELLOTA design is derived from the distinctive form of the acorn, where 1 kind can be seen to partially ‘cover’; the other.