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This minimal pine wood lamp perfectly marries Scandinavian and Japanese aesthetics

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We’ve seen a lot of Japandi designs in the past couple of years, and if you’re living under a rock, and don’t know what Japandi is, let me introduce you to it. Japandi is a design trend or style that marries Japanese and Scandinavian aesthetics. It is the artful blending of both Japanese and Scandinavian designs. Japanese minimalism and Scandinavian functionality are merged together to create a style that makes a space minimal without it being cold. And though, we’ve seen a lot of Japandi furniture pieces, you don’t always come across a Japandi-style lamp! And that’s precisely what the Jakobsson lamp is.

Designer: Yamagiwa x Hans-Agne Jakobsson

The Japanese lighting brand Yamagiwa and late Swedish designer Hans-Agne Jakobsson collaborated to create a collection of beautifully minimal lamps that are designed to cast light “reminiscent of a bonfire”. Called, the Jakobsson lamps, these simple yet sophisticated lamps feature light shades crafted from concentric bands of naturally dried pine wood.

The lamps beautifully merge Japanese and Scandinavian aesthetics, and in turn, pay an ode to the utilization of wood, and warm-toned colors that give a cozy and inviting appeal to the products. In fact, the lamps are manufactured by Japanese artisans. The artisans artfully dry and bend the pine into intriguing shapes, while paying special attention to the growth rings found in timber.

“The soft and gentle light cast through the shades is reminiscent of a bonfire and dusk,” said Yamagiwa. Besides featuring a strong yet minimal aesthetic, when it comes to functionality the Jakobsson lamps are pretty practical and versatile as well. They come in three diverse variations – pendant, floor, and table lamp. So, you can pick the variation that suits your living space and your personal preference, and therein add an element of Japandi-ism to your home!

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s wooden Taliesin lamps were reproduced by a Japanese brand

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Late architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed beautiful wooden lamps for his 1911 Taliesin house in Wisconsin. The Japanese brand Yamagiwa was completely enamored by these minimalistic lamps, and decided to reproduce and make them available to the people!

Designer: Frank Lloyd Wright

Yamagiwa took permission from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and created three stunning versions of Wright’s Taliesin lamp. They produced a floor lamp and two table lamps. The Taliesin lamp is really quite intriguing because it is stacked! The reproduced lamps are crafted from a series of rectangular solid wood boxes which are stacked one on top of the other, creating a tower-like formation. Shafts of light stream down this tower, and bounce off the wooden reflectors, creating a warm and subtle glow, which mimics the appearance of sunlight in nature.

“[Wright] was impressed by nature, and thought sunlight and moonlight filtered through leaves and branches are most beautiful,” said Yamagiwa.

Hence, if you look closely, the Taliesin lamps seem to emit an illumination that subtly gives the impression of sunlight streaming down on the ground. Wright’s love for nature and the inspiration he drew from organic and natural light are beautifully reflected in the Taliesin lamps.

The lamps are available in a variety of woods – oak, cherry, and walnut wood. You can also opt for a black painted finish, which is crafted from chestnut wood.

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