Spanish designers Lucas Muñoz and David Tamame have come up with an innovative and somewhat green use for disposable Bic Pens. The designer duo takes the disposable pens and metal paper clips and transforms them into trendy Volivik Lamps. We caught up with eStudio enPieza! located in Madrid, Spain, to ask a few questions about their lamps.
Tell us a bit about the lamps.
Each lamp is painstakingly handcrafted using, for example, 347 pens are drilled and cleaned and 347 paper clips that have to be cut. The iron is also drilled and bent until it is a circle. The whole structure is welded together, treated against corrosion and painted, then the pens are hung one by one from the structure, and the clips are closed. It is a painstaking job.
How long does it take to make a lamp?
As you can imagine, we don’t make the lamps one by one. But the average production time for one of our Volivik 347 Ceiling Lamp is one to two weeks.
Do you buy the pens or use recycled pens?
We acquire the pens via an office supply. Although the original intention of the collection was to use recycled pens, and the first piece that we still having here in the studio is made with used ones, the magnitude of collecting more than 10000 used pens to make the 30 ceiling lamps that we make is too big to attend to our clients’ needs.
Do people donate pens?
For the first unit, the pens were donated.
How many pens are used in each lamp?
The Volivik 347 uses 347 pens, the Volivik 50 uses 50, etc. We once made a Volivik 895 for a shop in Rome.
Is this a green project?
The Bic Pen is a disposable pen, designed to be used and thrown away. Using it this way, gives to each one a much longer and relevant life than the one they were produced for.
Visit: www.enpieza.com
Via: WebEcoist
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