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Design for
the luminaire was approached as an opportunity for explore
the use of traditional sustainable materials in a way that
was both modern and timeless. If environmental awareness
is to have a place in the business of design, as it
rightly must, the creation of goods intended to degrade
either materially or aesthetically at a consciously
enhanced rate must be challenged.
Much of
what is now labelled ‘organic design’, is anything
but. Objects may have neutral, curvaceous forms, but if
they are made of such artificial materials as injection
moulded plastics, they can hardly be classed as organic.
The ‘salix’
willow floor lamp is an attempt at creating a truly
organic lasting design that is satisfying both as an
object in its own right, and as the cumulative result of
the materials and processes that shaped it.
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