Model 1
Model 1 is a lamp born from a simple idea: to create a piece that generates its own light while serving as a platform for collaboration. From that starting point, the design process unfolded through dialogue and experimentation, questioning the role of objects in our daily lives, the limitations of materials, and the potential of collaboration.
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The Team
This project was made by Nicolás Edwards Collaborative Design Studio, the design team includes: Nicolás Edwards, José Tomás Carmona and Camila Correa.
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The Process
The piece is crafted from Lenga (Nothofagus pumilio), a native wood from the Chilean Patagonia. Its central structure houses all electrical components. During fabrication, 24 ultra-thin translucent wood sheets (each just 0.5 mm thick) are fitted into channels milled along the lateral faces of laminated wooden ribs. As light passes through the screen's fine grain, this delicate technique of woodworking allows for sub-surface scattering in each sheet, making them bloom with a warm, gently diffused radiance. This process reveals the material’s unexpected translucency, redefining wood’s traditional role as a structural material by highlighting its surprising soft quality, flexibility and potential for innovative design.
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Key Achievements
Its organic, timeless form allows the object to float in space, unbound by conventional orientations of up, down, north, or south. Breaking away from these spatial norms, Model 1 opens a channel for reinterpretation and invites collaborative possibilities.
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Future collaboration
Designed to be assembled and disassembled, Model 1 encourages modularity and shared authorship. It envisions a future where components can be co-designed and interchanged, transforming the piece into an evolving platform for creative collaboration. In this way, the project embraces sustainability not only through material exploration, but through an open, adaptable design process grounded in curiosity, connection, and most importantly, collective making.
