Green tea and lighting - what do they have in common?

If you did not know the story of creation of Patricia Urquiola's Chasen Suspension Lamp, you could hardly find any. Yes, it has interesting design, quite unusual:


This is elegant designer lamp made of stainless steel body and borosilicate diffuser with adjustable light emission. For its design Patricia Urquiola was inspired by the bulbous form of the Japanese matcha whisk used in preparing green tea! It requires defintely great talent to find the inspiration in such a simple object and to transform the whisk’s form into an exquisite illuminated object.


“Me, I was in love with all of the processes of using the bamboo pieces for the ceremony of tea,” Urquiola admitted in an interview to Azure Magazine after returning from a visit to Japan.
She has succeeded to recreate also the beauty, tranquility, and simplicity, the three main elements of a Japanese tea ceremony in the lighting design.