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Nuclée | Table Lamp in Lamps by Dorian Étienne • Design Studio | Milano Design Week in Milan. Item composed of bamboo and granite in minimalism or contemporary style
Nuclée | Table Lamp in Lamps by Dorian Étienne • Design Studio | Milano Design Week in Milan. Item composed of bamboo and granite in minimalism or contemporary style
Nuclée | Table Lamp in Lamps by Dorian Étienne • Design Studio | Milano Design Week in Milan. Item composed of bamboo and granite in minimalism or contemporary style
Nuclée | Table Lamp in Lamps by Dorian Étienne • Design Studio | Milano Design Week in Milan. Item composed of bamboo and granite in minimalism or contemporary style
Nuclée | Table Lamp in Lamps by Dorian Étienne • Design Studio | Milano Design Week in Milan. Item composed of bamboo and granite in minimalism or contemporary style
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Nuclée | Table Lamp in Lamps by Dorian Étienne • Design Studio | Milano Design Week in Milan. Item composed of bamboo and granite in minimalism or contemporary style

Nuclée - Lamps

Featured In Milano Design Week, Milan, Italy

Price $6,000 - Sale 8% off

Price $6,500 Original Retail

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DimensionsWeight
13.78H x 13.78W x 2.17D in
35H x 35W x 5.5D cm
2 kg
4.41 lb

Nuclée was born from a meeting combining culture, know-how and experimental approach.

Settled near Hualien, on the east coast of Taiwan, the Kavalan aboriginal tribe is expert in the use of banana fiber : they make it their traditional clothing. I had the chance to meet them, to share their way of life and to learn from their elders the ancestral techniques to use this plant.

The banana tree is one of the most cultivated plants in the world. After each harvest of bananas bunches, the “trunks” must be cut to facilitate the growth of shoots. Thus, tons of banana trees are still waiting to be revalued.

Banana flesh, a considerable waste unexploited by the Kavalan, reveals a fascinating graphic in the light. By a particular refining technique, this plant tissue is stabilized in a color range from white to dark brown. This “new” material is sublimated here in walnut shapes, inspired by the banana tree structure.

Nuclée is currently produced in a limited series of 12 art pieces, numbered and signed, handcrafted by our hands from natural materials. It is sold in its custom packaging, a jute sheathed power cable, a certificate of authenticity and a designers’ note.

Green Product Award Laureate (Berlin, 2021) and “Best of Year” Grand Prize Winner (New York, 2020).

Collaboration with Cordélia Faure.
Materials : banana flesh, bamboo, black granite, LED, assembly elements.
Dimensions : 350 x 350 x 40 mm, 500 x 500 x 50 mm, 1000 x 1000 x 80 mm.

Three sizes : 350 x 350 mm, 500 x 500 mm, 1000 x 1000 mm.

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Dorian Étienne • Design Studio
Meet the Creator
Wescover creator since 2020
I think my designer's mission is to make people dream ; to bring them into a mood, a culture, an unknown territory, by the object. It could be summed up in one sentence : Show me how the world can be beautiful !

Independant designer based in Paris, Dorian Étienne combines in his work crafts and industry through a humanist and eco-friendly design approach.

Anchored in near or distant territories, he observes cultures and histories, techniques and materials. The richness of the world's cultural heritages inspires him throughout his work. Following this lead thread, braided of Human and Nature, he creates sensible and sensitive products : “objets métissés”.

Furthermore, experimentation is at the heart of his creation. The new features of the material are his library of ideas ; then he invents new uses.

Fundamentally his approach is respectful of the environment and humans.