Le Labo 1.0 demonstrates how objects can be made locally, visually and circularly. The Lamps can be shaped on the spot while visitors look at it. The natural wax can be melted down and reshaped time and time again, the stainless-steel base can be reused in other objects after dismantling. The lamps are produced by rotational casting: a manufacturing technique from the plastics industry in which liquid material is poured into a rotating mould. The spinning motion distributes the wax evenly, forming a hollow, translucent object. Each lamp is unique in shape and thickness, a direct consequence of the making process. What you see is not a final product but a temporary form in an ongoing material cycle. Consumption thus becomes not an end point, but an open process.
