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Cast Object. Lamp
Cast Object
Lamp
Carefully hand cast lamp, produces a soft glow from the beeswax surface.
Materials and Origin
170 x 130 x 70mm (W x D x H)
Beeswax from North Yorkshire
Sweet Chestnut | Northumberland.
5W USB power source.
Handmade in the North of England.
0.2 kg
Beeswax is a locally sourced, low impact, and natural material. Weak if you misuse it, but tactile, soft, and capable if considered. Ideal for low temperature casting, it is able to be combined with natural materials like timber to provide additional structure and enable more possibilities
Care
Fragile. Indoor use only, avoid prolonged exposure to sunlight or heat sources, this may cause distortion. The surface may mark and it is intended to wear the marks from the life it goes on to
live.
About Henry
What do we owe the generations that follow us? For designer Henry Chantler, this question sits at the centre of a practice concerned with material, responsibility and the lasting consequences of making.
A graduate of Three Dimensional Design at Northumbria University, Henry challenges established ideas of production and consumption, exploring how objects might be made differently — and with greater consideration for the world they will inhabit.
His work begins with material. Its origins, its transformation, its environmental cost. Through research and hands-on experimentation, Henry investigates local resources, alternative processes and low-carbon methods, allowing the character and limitations of each material to inform the objects that emerge.
There is a quiet radicalism to his approach. Sustainability is neither an aesthetic nor an added virtue, but an inherent part of good design. Objects should be useful, repairable, considered and made to endure.
Underpinning his practice is a proposition: Our Grandchildren’s World. A call to look beyond the immediate, to reconsider what we produce and why, and to recognise that the things we make today belong, ultimately, to tomorrow.
