Pli

Pli is a pendant lamp in which the light source becomes a support structure: like a needle crossing a thin sheet, it creates and holds in place a series of soft folds, drapings and waves. Created by Felicia Arvid, a young Danish designer on her first foray into the world of lighting, Pli is a lamp that combines form, material and structure in a single gesture. In Pli the light source is a tube that contains the LED strip, on which to directly insert – like a needle in fabric – a very thin perforated sheet that forms a series of soft folds, overhangs and draping effects, resembling waves. From a twodimensional element, the material of the diffuser thus becomes a three-dimensional form: and it is the light source that holds it in position. Light, sinuous and poetic, Pli comes in wood or paper, for two different luminous effects. In the wooden version the light is concentrated upward and downward, while in the paper version it spreads thanks to the extreme thinness of the sheet that triggers delicate translucence at the sides of the lamp.