Debut at Lake Como Design festival, September 2025.

Fragments, Memory — a living archive. Our Uchiwa Lotus Lamp embodies the festival theme Memory — where tradition and contemporary design converge. The piece combines centuries-old Japanese paper fan-making and traditional urushi lacquer techniques with modern lighting design to rediscover and reinterpret cultural fragments, rituals, and craftsmanship, creating a poetic vessel that embodies time, place, and memory.

“By combining Kyoto craft heritage with New York’s technological innovation, the Uchiwa Lotus Lamp becomes a modern vessel of memory, respectful of the past, responsive to the present, and luminous toward the future.”

Reflector The lamp incorporates the uchiwa, a traditional Japanese paper fan produced by Hachiya- Uchiwa in Kyoto. Made of bamboo, wood, and handmade washi, these fans have been crafted with the same techniques for over 400 years and are now cherished as cultural artifacts and works of art.”

Base Made by Yamada Wood Workshop (Kyoto) from Keihoku’s Hinoki, the surface is finished with traditional urushi lacquer by Tsutsumi Asakichi Urushi (founded 1909), honoring every drop of this natural material.


Uchiwa paper photo credit: Hachiya- Uchiwa