There is a particular quality of light that rice paper produces — not bright, not directed, but diffused to the point where the source seems to disappear and only the warmth remains. The Paper Moon 04 Saucer is made in Gifu prefecture, the region of Japan that has produced lanterns by hand for centuries, by artisans working with a wire armature that winds bamboo filament into a continuous spiral before the rice paper is applied. The saucer form is low and wide, which means the light pools rather than radiates — it illuminates the floor around it and the air above it without competing with anything else in the room. Designed by Shigeru Uchida, it works on a terrace among monstera and stone as willingly as it does on a living room floor beside a sofa. At $160, it is one of the rare pieces where the craft cost and the retail price are genuinely difficult to reconcile.
Dimension
- Designer: Shigeru Uchida
- Collection: Asano lantern collection
- Material: rice paper, bamboo filament, wire armature
- Origin: handmade in Gifu, Japan
- Light type: ambient diffused
Saucer Lantern by Shigeru Uchida
There is a particular quality of light that rice paper produces — not bright, not directed, but diffused to the point where the source seems to disappear and only the warmth remains. The Paper Moon 04 Saucer is made in Gifu prefecture, the region of Japan that has produced lanterns by hand for centuries, by artisans working with a wire armature that winds bamboo filament into a continuous spiral before the rice paper is applied. The saucer form is low and wide, which means the light pools rather than radiates — it illuminates the floor around it and the air above it without competing with anything else in the room. Designed by Shigeru Uchida, it works on a terrace among monstera and stone as willingly as it does on a living room floor beside a sofa. At $160, it is one of the rare pieces where the craft cost and the retail price are genuinely difficult to reconcile.
Dimension
- Designer: Shigeru Uchida
- Collection: Asano lantern collection
- Material: rice paper, bamboo filament, wire armature
- Origin: handmade in Gifu, Japan
- Light type: ambient diffused
$160.00
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