Flax

This project was born out of a desire to combine sustainability, sensitivity to materials, and contemporary design thinking. During my summer internship, working alongside a designer, I created a lamp from linen textile scraps—a material that would normally have ended up as waste but here became the primary creative resource. The lamp consists of three separate, lightweight, light-transmitting shades that, when connected by a single cord, create a subtle, organic composition. Each shade is created by mechanically processing flax scraps and forming them into a soft fiber. The shape of the shades is symbolically inspired by the seed head of the flax plant—delicate, light, and fragile, yet holding immense potential for growth. The lamp thus serves as a visual reference to the life cycle of flax: from the plant, through the material and its remnants, to a new, long-lasting object.