Sunday, January 29, 2023

Sharpener

Nanako Kume creates these light fixtures with a custom large-scale pencil sharpener. More here.

Japanese designer Nanako Kume came up with a different idea for making lampshades by continuously scraping a pencil-shaped wood block. The specially built machine looks like a pencil sharpener and works like one as well. The colored shavings can be processed into various sizes and shapes for DIY applications. 

 

Posted by Kim Carney at 6:00 AM
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2 comments:

phlegmfatale said...

I absolutely adore these lampshades!!! I've rather been obsessing over penicls, of late, since I learned about the Musgrave Pencil company. In fact, I'm planning to order some of the black and white pencils quite soon (the shavings come out black and white, and I want to fill some clear glass Christmas ornaments with these shavings for my office. *squeeee!* It's amazing how beautiful pencils can be, these unravelings of tiny miracles, with all the potential for writing or drawing stored up in the graphite. kinetic energy. So exciting.

https://musgravepencil.com/collections/the-heritage-collection/products/black-and-white-bugle

3:21 PM
phlegmfatale said...

Oh, and I must say the video of the artist's process for her pencil shavings is amazing and beautiful. It feels so artful, elegant, and so right. I love it! These fixtures are so beautiful! <3

3:27 PM

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