This lamp is made with a 6-metre long tube of mulberry paper and rattan, in which LED lights are installed. Each pleated silk paper is then attached to the surface. The form is completed by tying it together and placing in a black stand.
When Setbyol Oh handles folded paper, she remembers moments from her childhood. In spring, the streets of Seoul were filled with colourful lanterns as Koreans celebrated Buddha's birthday. Paper is an important part of Korean culture, yet Setbyol only rediscovered this material by chance in the back corner of a specialty shop in Germany. Lanterns have become a forgotten relic of Korean Buddhist culture and are hardly found on the streets anymore. Through her work, Setbyol has found a way to revive and preserve this tradition, with contemporary flair. She uses rattan to create rods for her lamp sculptures, and a great many layers of tissue paper which she folds, twists and colours to create delicate and life-like lampshades.
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This lamp is made with a 6-metre long tube of mulberry paper and rattan, in which LED lights are installed. Each pleated silk paper is then attached to the surface. The form is completed by tying it together and placing in a black stand.
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This Mini-loulou lamp was made with about 120 leaves of paper tied together, and the final piece is as light as air.
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This wall lighting object was inspired by a walk in the winter night.
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Plum blossom is called Maehwa in Korean. The intensely yellow glowing Maehwa appears slightly whiter when the light is turned off because the tips of the petals are white and gradually turn yellow towards the centre of the lamp.