Fold Oslo creates lighting from kitchen utensils and demolition waste
Members of Norwegian design collective Fold Oslo have unveiled an assortment of lamps made from found objects and waste materials.
Named Nytt Lys, the collection contains six lighting designs, incorporating old kitchen utensils, demolition waste and the coarse wool of Norwegian sheep.
The works were produced by five members of Fold Oslo, a collective of young Oslo-based designers who share an interest in responsible design and material exploration.
Tobias Berg made two lamps, both by repurposing aluminium products originally created for the kitchen.
Krans is a terracotta-hued table lamp made from a cast-aluminium baking tin, while Segment is a dimmable lamp made from an extruded-aluminium knife block.
"[Segment] can stand, lie flat or be angled," said Berg. "The original shape is preserved, but brought forward, refined and completed with careful adjustments."
Anna Maria Øfstedal Eng sourced building site waste from material store Ombygg for her lamp, Re:Frame. The design places two light bulbs in a frame of extruded aluminium and glass.
"Two exposed light sources make the construction transparent, honest and poetic – a manifesto for repurpose and circular design," said Øfstedal Eng.
Poppy Lawman created her angular Tegl lamp using tiles made from salvaged bricks, sourced from company Høine, while Kathrine Hovind crafted her Aria lights using old wooden furniture legs and paper.
The sixth design is from new Fold Oslo member Jone Myking, who made his Ariescent lamp using the surplus wool sheared from Spælsau sheep in Hovden.
This wool is pressed between two glass plates and backlit by a second-hand fluorescent tube.
"A fundamental industrial and utilitarian product finds its new form in interplay with an untreated natural surplus material," said Myking.
Nytt Lys debuted in an exhibition at Oslo concept store Sorgenfri during Designers' Saturday, a three-day design festival that took place in the Norwegian capital in September.
It is the latest in a series of exhibitions that Fold Oslo has staged for the biennial design festival, following the Unika Auction in 2023 and Ny Normal in 2021.
"Beyond the physical transformation, Nytt Lys reflects on the ethics of making in a time of overproduction," reads the exhibition overview.
"By working with what already exists, the project proposes a slower, more conscious form of design – one where materials carry memory and renewal is born out of restraint."
The photography is by Kathrine Hovind.
Designers' Saturday took place in Oslo from 12 to 14 September. See Dezeen Events Guide for more events taking place in the Danish capital and elsewhere around the world.
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