In between completing all of the work from our recent visits to Africa and Miami, we had the unexpected joy of being introduced to the work of German designer/artist Julia Lohmann.
Based in London, Lohmann’s creates truly unique furniture and home accessory pieces that unquestionably cross the lines between art and design.
At their core, each work speaks to Lohmann’s need to rigorously respect the planet and honor our sadly — and rapidly — dwindling natural resources.
Which is why Lohmann is so big on recycling — including her reuse of discarded bovine stomachs; AKA sheep and cow guts.
As the pieces above confirm, Lohmann takes the organs, preserves them and then crafts their honey comb-like remnants into lamps as part of her cleverly-branded “Ruminant Bloom” series.
Each of Lohmann’s stomachs is unique and so is the end-product — which she says “envelops the light in a beautiful, billowing lace.”
The pieces cost about $500 each and are certainly eye-catching conversation-starters.
Lohmann — who’s currently obsessed with forming lamps from kelp and seaweed — is hardly undiscovered and has shown her work at important global design fairs such s Milan’s Salon de Mobile.
But she’s new to us — and considering most ruminants come complete with four separate stomachs — Lohmann is unlikely to run out of material any time soon.