Bombix Mori by Made to Stay
Designed by Carsten Jörgensen
Bombyx Mori is the name of the silkworm living in the mulberry tree, and as strange the name sounds, as strange the history of the development is of what became the Bombyx Mori Lamp. Placed around a glass table at the northern Italian manufacture of madetostay’s lamps collection our designers was discussing some downright designer-minded details when Mrs. Belini, the owners wife, entered the room with a big bulb in her hand stretched over her head like an Olympic torch bearers and with an enlightened glimpse in her eyes. What long time might have been on her and her team of cocooning craft women’s mind was now carried triumphantly to the table. Mrs Belini’s team has covered the big bulb in cocooning materials, which gave the otherwise cool LED bulb an entire new feel and light. Yes, it replicated a Bombyx Mori cocoon and the soft light escaping through the fine mesh of silk like cocooning gave the light a surprising inner life. How does professional and tried designers react when the people who daily create a highly sophisticated craft get a splendid idea? In this case it was obvious, it was a real simple and splendid idea, which we all at madetostay, couldn’t wait to realize and include in our collection of lamps. Our craft women have been thinking design and light at its roots. A power cord, a socket, a bulb, a light diffusing cover, a silky light when switched on! Closer we couldn’t come to a madetostay philosophy! Simple ideas are simply good design whoever makes it!
Materials
Cocooning fibre ISOCON® is a thin polymer/plastic web (ISOWEB®) combined with 2 (ISOCON® and ISOFINISH M/L®) copolymer layers sprayed by hand over the bulb.
Finish
Silk matt surface
Dimensions
Lamp Ø 4.72 in / Height: 8.42 in / Suspension Max 157.48 in / Canopy/cover: Ø 3.07 in / Height 0.94 in
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BOMBIX-MORI
