Benjamin Hubert

At the London Design Festival 2012, the young British designer presented Tenda, a new line of lamps: multilayered textile constructions, with varying opacity and transparency.

Launched at this year's London Design Festival, Tenda is a series of textile lamps which result from Benjamin Hubert 's materials driven research. Tenda, Italian for tent, is comprised of materials from a diverse mix of industries: fibre glass rods from the kite manufacturing industry, lycra from the sports industry, 4 way stretch mesh from the underwear industry, a construction technique from the tent industry. The primary component of the lamp series is a multi layered construction of textile.

The exterior is covered by a quad-directional high stretch micro mesh. This gives the lamp its volume and an ethereal lightness with a sense of varying opacity depending on your viewing position. The internal layers are constructed from Lycra which diffuses the light source. The interplay between external stretched convex curves and internal concave forms creates a dynamic typology of components.

These layers of textile are supported by flexible fibre glass rods held in tension by textile and brass connectors. The technical textile system has been developed in house over a period of 12 months after several iterations of prototyping and testing.
Tenda lamp by Benjamin Hubert, exhibited at London Design Festival 2012
Tenda lamp by Benjamin Hubert, exhibited at London Design Festival 2012
Tenda lamp by Benjamin Hubert, exhibited at London Design Festival 2012
Tenda lamp by Benjamin Hubert, exhibited at London Design Festival 2012
Tenda lamp by Benjamin Hubert, exhibited at London Design Festival 2012
Tenda lamp by Benjamin Hubert, exhibited at London Design Festival 2012
Preliminary drawings for Tenda lamp by Benjamin Hubert
Preliminary drawings for Tenda lamp by Benjamin Hubert

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