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Vicara, a cool design brand based in Portugal, recently launched a brand new lamp made from recycled cardboard ... profile of an old school lamp and shade. Easily flat-packable, and even ...

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Palefire Studio used paper pulp to create its first lamp ... "We don’t think recycling the body and shade of the lamps is currently possible because of the painted surface," said Morgan-Cox.

Dunelm has used the craft on its easy-fit pendant lamp shade to stunning effect, shaping paper into a concertina hexagon. It makes for a detail that will provoke conversation in the dining room or ...

Swiss designer Jona Messerli has created a flat-pack table lamp with a lattice-patterned shade made from Japanese shoji paper. The Sol light, which launched at IMM Cologne, was made using a ...

As essential as lamps are to a home, they can be a surprisingly complicated purchase. Sometimes you need a more classic piece that blends subtly and seamlessly into an established design scheme.

But you also need to consider the size of the lamp, the surface it will sit on and how you will use it. “Scale really matters,” says Kara Williams, owner of the Shade Shop in Charlottesville.