When industrial designer Samuel Bernier moved into his new apartment he was faced with a mass of furniture including a broken Ikea lamp that was left there by the previous tenant. When searching for a new shade to replace the tattered and taped up one he could only find ones that were too expensive or not attractive enough to even want to purchase. So he decided to design his own with his 3-D printer and his first lamp shade turned out so well, he designed and printed 11 more.
Image Courtesy of Coroflot
The collection, called Dentelle, consists of a dozen pieces that are all variations on a theme. Some are completely solid while others are dotted with holes or ribbed. However, all of the shades are the same bell shape so that the design that can sit attractively on a desk or other flat surface without any support, in addition to being hung from the ceiling. That dual functionality, Bernier admits, was “a nice surprise.”
Image Courtesy of Coroflot
Bernier created these shades on his Up! Pp3dp, which has a 5-by-5-by-5-inch build capacity, so he couldn’t exactly match the tattered original inch for inch. Some of the shades still need a bit of refining, for instance the tortoise shell-style shade may look nice, but it is incompatible with hot, incandescent bulbs.
Image Courtesy of Coroflot
