Leather Lampshade, Pepe Heykoop
Just the day before the launch of Dutch Design Week, Dutch designer Pepe Heykoop launches a range of leather lampshades, created in collaboration with the Tiny Miracles Foundation.
Leather Lampshades takes its shape references from old metal industrial lamps, but are now reworked in a soft lambskin leather. With decorative seam stitching on the outside, Pepe’s lamps are seriously on-trend for this autumn’s fashion for sheepskin.
Stitching the lampshades; Leather Lampshade, Pepe Heykoop
Using leather makes the lampshade lightweight, foldable and easy to transport. In two silhouettes entitled horizontal at 80cm wide and vertical at 79 cm tall, the lamps come in natural or grey and sell for 420 euros, ex vat and shipping. Leather Lampshades have been manufactured using only leather of skins that are a byproduct and tanned with as many natural materials as possible. The lampshades are handmade in a production with Tiny Miracles Foundation.
Pepe with girPepe with girls helped by the Tiny Miracles Foundation; Leather Lampshade, Pepe Heykoop
The Tiny Miracles Foundation was founded by two Dutch women Laurien Meuter and Florentine Slingeland and works to provide an education to the most vulnerable young girls living in the red light district of Mumbai, India. The foundation also gives paid work to the mothers – in this case making the lampshades – and a part of the profit is also allocated to the girls’ education.
Pepe Heykoop graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2008 and is part of the Dutch designers collective ‘Dutch Invertuals’, a collaboration of talented graduates of the Design Academy Eindhoven.
Image credits: product photography Annemarijne Bax
