Bent wood sculptural lamps by John Procario to the breaking point

This sculpture wooden lamps American designer John Procario seem to be bent to the breaking point. John Procario creates the lamp by connecting two strips of ash or oak, without the use of other forms may limit the result in a solid form. This process allows the wood is natural to assume the form and there are no two models are identical.

wood lamps by John Procario

"The idea for the lights come thinking about wood as a metaphor of the human body," the designer said John Procario. "The wood is easy to bend to a certain point and then break. Just like a muscle or bone, wood has its breaking point. "

Wood lamps with a very curved shape

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The designer has the technique of steam bending used to bend the wood. It is a method are provided in a steam chamber with thin strips of wood, so that the fibers are relaxed and flexible. Procario is then manipulated, and laminated together to form a rigid section strips.

unique design

"I use white oak or ash, because the fibers of very solid wood joint natural glue, which makes it very flexible," said Procario. The light is from a band of flexible LED as inserted and fixed with an adhesive. Plexiglass was adapted on the LED strip to the intensity of the scattered light.

if the lamp when it is turned off

when lit

design of the curvy lamp

Ash wood and plexiglass

simplest form, but a large impact

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