At Milan Design Week in April 2010 at Superstudio Piú, Swedish lighting company Wästberg launched a lighting fixture made in DuraPulp and developed in close collaboration with Swedish forestry industry company Södra and Swedish architects and designers Claesson Koivisto Rune.
Last year Claesson Koivisto Rune and Södra developed the Parupu children’s chair out of DuraPulp, thus proving it possible to make a real chair of paper. Now the designers teamed up with Wästberg to challenge themselves even further: merging electricity, paper and light, using paper, not only as a component or for casing, but really fully integrated.
- Paper has been used throughout history for making lamp shades. Now we are using paper for the actual structure of the fixture adding advanced LED
technology, says Magnus Wästberg, founder and CEO of Wästberg.
- One principal mission for Södra, together with innovative partners, is to develop and supply tomorrow’s raw materials based on renewable forest resources, says Karin Emilsson, director of technology at Södra and head of Södra Innovation.
