Papillion Opaque Pendant

Papillion pendant is part of a new perforated luminaire collection from the Danish brand 101 Copenhagen. The luminaire was designed by Copenhagen’s Kristian Sofus and Tommy Hynldahl, who were inspired by Mathieu Matégot’s way of working with sheet metal in a soft and organic way. Through experiments with mask size, light filtering and lighting, the designers decided to work with a fine mask perforated sheet. The characteristic lens shape gives the carbide surface a biological quality while simultaneously optimizing light scattering. Papillion refers to the French word for butterflies “PAPILLION”, which poetically plays on the floating lampshades as the focal point of the lamps. Papillion is in tree variants; Brass with perforated lampshades, oxidized with lampshades made of opaque glass and French rattan, colonial.