RECYCLED LIGHT
While living in Madrid in the Lavapiés neighborhood the past year I would walk the winding old streets often. I always passed dumpsters full of debris from the constant apartment renovation in the area. Chairs, doors, lamps, rope, paintings, curtains; anything and everything from the inside of apartments just thrown away. After a few months of walking by everyday combined with my apartment desperate for some lighting décor, I took advantage of all the free material.
I made a series of three lamps to accent the central living space and the bedroom of my apartment. The apartment, decorated in a Moorish architectural style by a previous owner, had a very calm subdued ambience about it in the evenings that I worked to emphasize.
1: LIVING SPACE
Using the slats from a thrown away chair and found rope, the two materials were woven and braided together in a crossing pattern. The crossing slats worked to diffuse the soft light of the Edison bulb suspended in the middle.
2: LIVING SPACE
Using a small rectangular picture frame, the frame of an old lamp, and found cord a X-bracing suspension light fixture was created. The cord woven across the top of the fixture and down to the picture frame hangs the frame in tension lightly around the bulb.
3: BEDROOM
A window shade was the main material for this fixture. Using two picture frames to create the inner structure, the shade was wrapped around and attached to create the form. The slats were cut varied lengths, diffusing the light at different levels.
