The Meditative Pastime of Rock Collecting Inspires an Artful Lighting Series

Modeled after ocean-tumbled rocks, the smooth forms of these sustainably made lamps will make you want to pick them up and take them home.

The Meditative Pastime of Rock Collecting Inspires an Artful Lighting Series

Modeled after ocean-tumbled rocks, the smooth forms of these sustainably made lamps will make you want to pick them up and take them home.

Layers of precision-cut cardboard mimic the shape of a particular stone found at one of three beaches near the designer’s studio in Seattle.

"Each light fixture is inscribed with the name of the beach and the geographic coordinates where its corresponding stone was collected," says Seth Grizzle, founder and creative director of the sustainable lighting brand Graypants. He’s talking about his company’s Pebbles collection of table lamps and pendants, which takes its name and aesthetic cues from rocks the designer found while strolling along Seattle’s coastline.

Graypants<span style="font-family: Theinhardt, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;">’</span><span style="font-family: Theinhardt, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"> Pebbles pendants (shown in white) look especially great in clusters. </span>

Graypants’ Pebbles pendants (shown in white) look especially great in clusters. 

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Part of the brand’s Scraplights line, Pebbles follows the studio’s history of exploring biomimicry and its signature way of articulating the beauty of nature. Like the original Scraplight series, the Pebbles collection relies on found materials—postconsumer corrugated cardboard, in this case—and is sustainably produced. Each shade is laser cut and assembled by hand using nontoxic adhesive.

Graypants’ popular Alki, Allyn (shown), and Denny pendants were the first designs made for the Pebbles collection.

Graypants’ popular Allyn pendant (shown) is among the first designs made for the Pebbles collection.

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Crafted in white corrugated cardboard, the pendants’ abstract shapes are an evolution of the brand’s nature-based designs.

Crafted in white corrugated cardboard, the pendants’ abstract shapes are a continuation of the brand’s nature-based design approach. 

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