FROM BANANA TRUNKS TO LIGHT

At Greenman Banana Paper Studio in Bali, nothing is wasted, not even what the harvest leaves behind.

Banana trunks, usually discarded after the fruit is taken, are stripped of their fibers, softened, and slowly worked by hand into paper. Each sheet comes out thin, textured, slightly uneven. You can see where it came from.

That paper becomes lampshades, partitions, wall pieces. Hold it up to light and the light comes through, warm, diffused, gentle.

We use their lamps throughout our space. Partly for how they look. Mostly for what they represent: a way of making things that is careful, unhurried and deeply aware of what already exists.