Drop Paper Lamp
K5 is a hotel whose interior design was conceived and
designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune. This unique facility
includes hotel accommodation, a restaurant, a wine bar, and a
coffee shop, all housed in a newly renovated historic building
in Tokyo, Japan. They designed a collection of lightings,
exclusively for K5.
Drop paper lamp is made with the techniques of Suifu lantern,
known for the production of durable and sturdy paper lanterns.
For the lantern’s shade, we chose Echizen washi paper, a
traditional paper with a history of about 1,500 years and
characterized by its warm color and durability due to the long
and thick Japanese mulberry fiber used as the raw material. It
is generally used in large sheets that can be applied seam-
lessly to large fittings such as fusuma (sliding doors) and
byobu (folding screens).
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