Believe it or not, you're actually looking at real bakery products when you set your eyes on the Pampshade Bread Lights. The scrumptious croissants and scones have been mixed with the typical ingredients, popped into the oven and then transformed into idiosyncratic light fixtures.
Weak flour and hard flour are blended together with yeast to produce a stiff recipe that rises as you'd expect. After cooking, the buns are left to cool, then hollowed out in places and embedded with LED lights. The electrical components are connected, after which the Pampshade Bread Lights are coated in an inedible resin to harden and preserve the scrumptious pendant lamps. The delicious textural details of the loaves make for thicker and thinner surfaces that produce intriguing areas of brighter and more diffuse glowing.
Bread Loaf Illuminators
These Pampshade Bread Lights are Made from Actual Baked Goods
Trend Themes
1. Food-based Lighting - The creation of light fixtures from baked goods presents an opportunity for further experimentation with food-based lighting designs.
2. Upcycling of Food Waste - The use of leftover bread to create lighting fixtures taps into a growing interest in repurposing food waste for creative and functional purposes.
3. Idiosyncratic Lighting Design - The unique and unconventional aesthetic of the Pampshade Bread Lights highlights a trend towards personalized and non-conformist lighting design.
Industry Implications
1. Interior Design - The incorporation of food-based lighting into interior design provides an opportunity for designers to introduce a playful and unexpected element into their projects.
2. Sustainability - The upcycling of food waste to create functional objects like lighting fixtures aligns with the growing emphasis on sustainability and circular economy practices.
3. Food and Beverage - The use of food as a design element presents opportunities for collaboration between the food and beverage industry and creative industries such as lighting design and interior design.