Nuclée: Designers create mood lighting from discarded banana fibre

French designers have created a mood lamp, Nuclée, made from discarded banana fibre and inspired by indigenous crafts wisdom. Banana flesh, which is usually discarded as a waste material during extraction, was used to create the Nuclée lamp, which features a pendant made from a stabilised version of the plant tissue and set within a curved bamboo frame. Nuclée was imagined and produced in Taiwan, … Continue reading Nuclée: Designers create mood lighting from discarded banana fibre