Yucca Candy Lamp 22″x 4′ x 4″ February 29, 2008
Yucca Lamp
Goal: to reduce consumable waste.
“As a designer, the choices I make have the ability to recover and protect the eco-system, and better peoples social well-being through the process of providing a functional beautiful piece of art”.
Demonstrating that designers can be ecologically accountable for the processes they employ, and the products they create, the Yucca Lamp is an alternative to unsustainable production methods and non-biodegradable resin.
Using a yucca root vegetable to create the inner void, raw wood for the mold, and hard candy for the actual structure. The Yucca Lamp is a “cradle-to-cradle” product from beginning to end, as it %100 biodegrade at the end of its lifecycle, and becomes food for the biosphere. (Dissolves in rain to feed plant life).
Julie Witten-Land
Book Cradle to Cradle by McDonough and Braungart
I love this Lamp, not only on the material it use but also for its simple and sculptural shape.
I’m a big fan of the material- I love that you can eat it. This is way outside the box of convention.
Thanks !