Woven by Hand in the Philippines, Sold in Milan

Woven by Hand in the Philippines, Sold in Milan

Most lamps just sit there. They do their job, emit their light, and fade into the background of a room. Mirei Monticelli’s lamps are the kind you keep looking at. The Milan-based Filipina designer has built her practice around a single material: banaca, a woven textile made from the fibers of the banana-abaca plant, harvested…

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