Organic Modern Crocheted Lamps from London - Remodelista
Inventive lighting stole the show last week at ICFF in New York. Among our favorite finds: London designer Naomi Paul’s organic modern pendant lamps that she hand crochets, marrying the tactile with the architectural. Photographs courtesy of Naomi Paul. A graduate of the Chelsea College of Art and Design in constructed textile design, Paul crochets her shades around a powder-coated framework using special mercerized cotton cord that she developed (the material is sourced from an Italian mill and knit into cable yarn in Yorkshire). Though most of Paul’s pieces are scaled to large rooms, the Vex, with “tessellating 20 degree angled edges,” doesn’t require height. A trio of Glück pendants. Every element is sourced within the UK (aside from the yarn) and the entire production is UK based. The V2 Glück, one of Paul’s just-introduced pieces, has an open shade. Paul’s shade designs are mathematically complex but she uses nothing more than a bamboo crochet hook to make them. Paul also makes other designs on commission. For more information, go to Naomi Paul.