The admired Japanese fashion designer and recent Design Museum’s Design
of the Year 2012 awards winner Issey Miyake has applied his trademark,
ingenious 132 5 folding technique to this new succession of delicate textile
lamps factory-made by the Italian brand Artemide. Called ‘IN-EI’ – Japanese for
‘shadow, shadiness, nuance’ – the collection includes floor, table and pendant
lamp designs, all of which were produced using 2 or 3D mathematic principals
(just like the 2010 132 5 clothing collection). Made of retrieved PET bottle
fibre, the lamps can be pleated flat and become 3D shapes, beginning from a
single piece of cloth.
