• By Mark Wilson
    Nov 11, 2009 11:00 AM 11,630
    read more: #art, #carbon451, #marcustremonto, #carbonfiber

    Carbon Fiber Ribbon of Light

    I would have assumed this lamp was aluminum, had designer Marcus Tremonto not explained:

    "The complexity of curves and required thinness could not be duplicated in any other material while still maintaining its ability to support itself completely..."

    Usually when I picture carbon fiber, I imagine that monotonous, slate-colored slab that's delicately thin but mostly flat—or I picture the Ossur cheetah legs that are curved but only for industrial utility.

    I'd never imagined carbon fiber as a ribbon of light.

    [Contemporist via cribcandy]


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