Woven by Hand in the Philippines, Sold in Milan - Yanko Design

Woven by Hand in the Philippines, Sold in Milan - Yanko Design

Most lamps just sit there. They do their job, emit their light, and fade into the background of a room. Mirei Monticelli's lamps are the kind you keep looking at. The Milan-based Filipina designer has built her practice around a single material: banaca, a woven textile made from the fibers of the banana-abaca plant, harvested

Mirei Monticelli's Hand-Woven Banana Leaf Lamps Swell Between Material and Movement

Milan-based Filipina designer Mirei Monticelli creates biomorphic lighting fixtures that toe the line between sculpture and utility. Undulating outward and glowing from within, the artist’s works feel as if they are alive, quietly dancing wherever they stand or hang. These gestural, biodegradable structures are crafted with hand-woven Banaca fabric made from Abacá, a fiber that grows abundantly in Monticelli’s native Philippines. The artist’s st…