Paardarshi Carves Bamboo So Thin It Glows Like a Natural Light Pipe - Yanko Design

"The early experiments involved splitting bamboo with nodes intact, hand-scooping the inner surface with a half-round chisel, and dealing with cracking when too much material was removed. The designer then moved to a third approach, carving from the outside in to thin and straighten the tube while controlling wall thickness. The aim was even translucency along the length, turning the bamboo wall into a kind of natural light pipe that could diffuse an LED smoothly."

"The lamp's form is simple, a vertical bamboo tube on a base that can be closed for ambient light or opened and angled for a focused reading beam. The designer labels these as reading mode and ambient mode, and the same piece of bamboo is asked to behave differently depending on orientation. The geometry stays minimal, the behavior changes with how you interact with it and where you point the tube."

Paardarshi is a translucent bamboo table lamp that exploits the natural light-passing quality of sufficiently thinned bamboo. The lamp provides two functions: a soft ambient mode when the base is closed and a brighter reading mode when opened and angled. Early fabrication trials split bamboo and hand-scooped the inner surface, causing cracking when too much material was removed. A preferred technique carves from the outside in to thin and straighten the tube while controlling wall thickness for even translucency and smooth LED diffusion. The internal cavity houses adjustable hardware using a spring-armed press-fit component that adapts to varying diameters without permanent gluing.

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