Engineered lamps
- Hamlet is a professional light engineer who makes artisan lamps
- He believes that skills develop with time
- He recycles bottles, wood and fabric to make lamps
Hamlet Hakobyan’s lamp glows with a warm ambiance, a result of the time, care and attention to detail invested by hand making. A strong belief was instilled in Hamlet that skill develops with time, and the care taken by handmaking is experienced only during the time. Hamlet got the idea of making lamps while he was cleaning the basement of his home, he had an idea of making a lamp from organic glass and it turned out to be a focal point in his life. Lamp making became his business. Besides designing and making lamps, he works in public TV. Hamlet says "Lamp making is never going to be a dying craft as the light is eternal.’’ Hamlet’s lamps are environmentally friendly as he reuses and recycles different materials.
INTERVIEW
I was cleaning our basement and I had an idea to make a lamp with glass and an old wooden album case, the basement was a great place to test lights and slowly the number of lamps grew, it became a business.
There are not many people who make lamps nowadays, I think it is never going to be a dying craft as the light is eternal. People always need lamps, and it is always going to be a demanded decor.
I reuse wood, fabric, glass bottles and organic glass. I believe that one can make things without any budget by recycling things, it takes some time to experiment with recycling until it becomes sustainable.
I started lamp making five years ago. I am a professional light engineer and I used to work for public TV as a light designer and engineer. I have now created my very own world of lights.
