Unlike my standard Panel Shades these ‘Virgin Trapese Shades’ use salvaged lampshade frames for the metal ring and the rest of the old lampshade frame remains hanging down within the new lampshade.

I made these in SoupaNaturals circus tent at the 2009 Roskilde Festival. The shades were made on site with a knife and hole-punch (A Silent Circus). Other than the salvaged shade frames they are made of selected waste paper from a local printer, plus some Polyester ‘Faber’ strips from panel curtains.

The ‘Panel Shades’ take a little while to plan out and make, but I am enjoying the ability they give to make such individual pieces, so get in touch if you want to commission one or two.

A Design process by Jeremy Walton 2004

A slowly expanding collection of objects made using a designed process, where locally found furniture parts (urban drift wood) get used to determine variable end results.

Each item is individually numbered. The collection is on going and the initial collection of 01 to 60 will be presented at MM gallery Copenhagen in 2005. Selected items are part of the Lauritz Passion day Aution 2005.

Standing Lamps from the Fake Dane Collection. 2005

Donated chair from Ishøj, Copenhagen, 2005.

• “Hr Larsen, what colour or colours do you feel are particularly Danish?”
• “Blue and white.”
• “Why and what sort of blue?”
• “The blue of the sea in Skagen when it joins the white sky.”
• “What sort of blue is it?”
• “It is very bright blue.”
• “Can you give some examples of other things that are the same blue?”
• “It is like the blue of this pate [Leverpostej] packaging or letmælk cartons.”

Dear Hr Larsen
I have a close match to Leverpostej (pate) packaging. I have recently been to Skagen, it was grey and rained but during moments of sunshine it hinted and I can imagine the sea being blue and joining the white sky.

Found table from Vesterbrø Copenhagen, 2005.

• “Fru Daugaard, what colour or colours do you feel are particularly Danish?”
• “Brick Red like the roof tops.”
• “That is straightforward. Are the tiles of that colour found commonly in towns all over Denmark?”
• “It’s all over. Also provincial towns have that red brick colour.”

Dear Fru Daugaard,
This looks much more red than some of the newer orange looking tiles. It is quite similar to the older weathered tiled roofs. From a distance this red might also look less red, everything looks different from a distance.

Full collection archieve underconstruction.