GIRIA – is a reflection on the cultural erosion of memory and the search for a new authenticity arising from the tension between tradition and modernity. The project contemplates the forest as a multi-layered cultural, sensory, and intellectual resource that has shaped our identity, the aesthetics of our daily life, and our worldview.
Today, when rapid pace, synthetics, and the logic of consumption distance us from material, craft, and nature, GIRIA returns to self-made practices, slow processes, and individual mastery. Here, daily life becomes a meditation, and rituals turn into mediums for new meanings.
The project invites us to reconsider not only what we have inherited, but also what we can still create from the fragments of memory — not as nostalgia, but as a living, sensitive alternative to dominant values.
The lamp is made primarily from a reclaimed tree bark bio-composite material that designer developed, allowing the natural characteristics of the material to guide the final form and texture of the piece. The material is highly tactile and, once dried, resembles ceramics. When used with a light source, it emits a warm and soft glow.
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GIRIA Flower lamp
2025
Tree bark bio composite - pine bark, ash bark. Ash wood, steel.
Self-production
