Lorvane Pendant Lamp

The Lorvane Pendant Lamp is a two-tier raffia skirt hung from the ceiling. A wide drum sits over a narrower one, and both are dressed the same way: hundreds of lengths of natural cotton cord laid straight up and down over a plain iron ring, packed so close that the surface reads as fine vertical pleats, the way a grass skirt falls when it is shaken out. The bottom tier steps in from the top one by a hand's width, so the two rims make a double hem. Lit, the cord glows oat-white with a darker line between every strand, and light spills out of the open bottom and the gap between the two tiers.