Dutch-born, London-based designer Henny van Nistlerooy recently created a flat pack pendant lamp called Fabricate, whose name is a nod to both the do-it-yourself nature of the piece and its own fabrication process. Constructed of a wire frame, an electrical light fitting, and a textile light shade, Fabricate makes use of a special 3D woven fabric "that cleverly adapts Jacquard type weaving to new applications."

Fabricate Lamps. Designed by Henny van Nistlerooy.

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The manufacturing process behind the lamp does away with the pesky steps of cutting and sewing. Instead, the lamp shades are simply double cloth pockets woven into the fabric, which allows a myriad of options (patterns, shapes, sizes, and color) in one single production run. Fabricate's lampshades "are produced as enormous bolts of cloth that only need to be cut out." And you can cut out different assemblies of lamps that contain one, two, or three lights.

In colors like yellow and purple, the Fabricate lamps look like wrapped hard candies. Upon closer inspection, the spiral wire frame is visible through the fabric, a delicate skeleton. In white, Fabricate can appear ghostly, like paper bags tumbling through city streets in the wind-metropolitan tumbleweeds. The two-piece and three-piece versions of Fabricate are odd in a symbiotic fashion, conjoined lights that retain their own individuality even within the group assembly.

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About the Designer: Henny van Nistlerooy is a London-based designer who is originally from the Netherlands. He earned a BA in product design from Artez Institute of the Arts, Arnhem and an MA from the Royal College of Art, London. With a special interest in textiles, van Nistlerooy makes lights from jacquard-woven fabric and furniture from Kevlar fibre. His aesthetic philosophy involves "raising pertinent questions and coming up with intelligent designs."