Theseus / The Lamp | Sparsh Verma

Theseus

An exploration of bamboo as a material.

Here is a collection of renders and actual craftsmanship that went behind making this.

Duration: 2 weeks | Classroom project

Some digital renders of the lamp. The texture was picked from the actual prototype I built

This lamp was an exercise in working with bamboo. I started out with bamboo cuttings lying around the workshop. The first version of the lamp looked like a poor attempt between a light and a bird.

Somehow I felt the need to fix it. So, I started thinking "hmm, I'll just replace the base, maybe that will fix it". And I wanted articulation.

I ended up making an entirely new lamp, with a rough sketch to start with. Hence the name, Theseus, after the mythological ship that had all its parts replaced. Swipe through the gallery below for images

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Here is how the articulation works

The new design felt too over-the-top. So after a couple of rounds of simplifying (incidentally the base again), I arrived at the latest iteration. Some images of the actual lamp are below.