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Donut design: the sweetest furniture trend of 2025
by Pia Seidel
Which vintage product has been reinterpreted for this lamp?
12.10.2022
Translation: Katherine Martin
Pictures: Pia Seidel
In designing this lamp, fashion designer Gilles Werbrouck made use of a product you’d typically find in the bin. But what is it? Read my clues and take a guess!
Guessing game
Gilles’ design «Lamp, 2021» essentially consists of two parts: a sort of mesh lampshade and a cylindrical base. The latter is made of a gypsum-based material in an acrylic resin called jesmonite, which is poured onto the black mesh – that much I’m willing to give away.
The big reveal
The design process behind this lamp combines not just two different techniques, but two different materials. Its gypsum base emerged from a collaboration with visual artist Hugues Loinard and was made by way of a casting technique. And the lampshade? Gilles wove it together using the magnetic tape from VHS cassettes.
Another of the design studio’s trademarks is that every object is completely handmade. Thirty-six table lamps were made, all according to the same process. Despite this, every version looks different – and unlike many garments and lamps, doesn’t come off an assembly line.
This is the first instalment of the «Guess what?» series, in which you can use my clues to guess a design piece’s «secret ingredient». Follow me so you don’t miss the next one!
Pia Seidel
Senior Editor
Pia.Seidel@digitecgalaxus.chLike a cheerleader, I love celebrating good design and bringing you closer to everything furniture- and interior design- related. I regularly curate simple yet sophisticated interior ideas, report on trends and interview creative minds about their work.
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