(Alejandro Ramírez/CASACOR)
Designer Manu Bañó, co-founder of EWE Studio and associate at Esrawe Studio, has unveiled his first product under his own name – a lamp made of raw metal that can be assembled by hand. The OBJ-01 light is made from cut stainless steel laser cut, steel or brass and assembled by hand with a rubber mallet. (Alejandro Ramírez/CASACOR)
Bañó buys the metal from different distributors of the material in Mexico City, where he lives, and looks for the least scratched sheets so that he has to polish as little as possible. “I am attracted to the raw and pure materials, the weight, the industrial processes that transform them,” Bañó told Dezeen . “I like the depth of the metal and its reflective properties.” (Alejandro Ramírez/CASACOR)
The project came about during the lockdown, which gave Bañó time to think about and create a new object. “I have a large collection of design and craft objects, so I’m surrounded by things that I like,” he said. “I decided I wanted to design a object to add to my collection so that I could see it every day among the objects I admire." 
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The resulting OBJ-01 lamp has a sleek geometric shape and consists of a rectangle, a circle, and a cylinder that contains an LED light. The circular screen in the center of the lamp can be rotated 360 degrees to direct the light in a variety of ways. (Alejandro Ramírez/CASACOR)
Designed to be a timeless object, the production of the OBJ-01 light minimizes scrap. “There is practically no waste in the production process, as the size of the lamp corresponds to the commercial format of a metal plate,” said Bañó. “I make five lamps with a plate measuring 122 by 61 centimeters." (Alejandro Ramírez/CASACOR)
The bulbs are then sealed with beeswax and topped with an LED light. Bañó is producing a small run of the bulb, with 10-20 bulbs in each numbered series, which also come with some poetic inspiration. (Alejandro Ramírez/CASACOR)
“With each lamp, I deliver a poem written and signed by Guillermo Crespo Galiana, a young Valencian poet who wrote three poems inspired by the piece,” Bañó said. “I like to think that these poems can be displayed near the lamp, so there is always two ways of interpreting them." Source:
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