Lamp “I greet you old ocean”

A luminous object in walnut, Japanese washi paper and LED lighting, this is a competition piece that hails the spirit of the traditional sailing boats of Osaka, Japan. This higaki-kaisen was selected for the 2021 Ateliers d'Art de France competition and presented at the Festival de l'Excellence Normande (FÊNO) 2021, in Caen. It was produced as a tribute to ethnologist Jean Cuisenier. The structure, made of walnut, combines slopes and reverse slopes in complex assemblies. The papers are stretched over transparent plexiglass rods. The light highlights, in transparency, the structure and the movement of the fibres of the paper.