Fisherman Lamps by TAF for Zero

Stockholm based design studio TAF Arkitektkontor has created a pendant and floor lamps Fisherman for Swedish company Zero.

Like fishermen’s glass floats, the lamp has also transferred to contemporary materials. And as a useful anticized, fishing tool has transformed into a romnigh-kitsch item used in fish restaurants, it is also time to move lamps into a new positive context. When placed indoors, with increased size and a new function as a lamp, we still recognize it, but look at it in a new way.

Rope-making is now a very rare handicraft in Sweden and it has been extremely hard to find the knowledge on how to knit this kind of round net structure. Finally, a small company, located at Hönö on the Swedish west coast, specialized in making rope- and net applications for the fishing industry, managed to do it. Each net is hand knitted using the simplest tools imaginable.

Source: TAF Arkitektkontor