Veil

Taking its name from Schopenhauer’s Veil of Maya, the idea that the perceived world is a surface of appearances concealing the true nature of things, VEIL is a table lamp that questions the boundary between what is seen and what lies beneath. Hand-embroidered lace is cast in fine porcelain slip and then removed, leaving an unglazed shade that fossilises the textile’s structure and holds the memory of a soft medium in rigid form. Set on a stainless steel frame, the light passes through the thin porcelain and brings the absent lace back into view, so that every stitch becomes legible as illumination.