Jukung Floor Lamp

The jukung is the small outrigger canoe of Bali’s fishing villages, light and narrow, balanced by bamboo arms on either side and driven by a tall, angled sail. At dawn the beaches fill with them, their sails raised against the early light. The lamp borrows that moment: the sail as the brightest thing on the shore.

The making follows the boat as well. Jukung builders shape their hulls by working with the wood, not against it. Steam-bending the ash does the same: heat and moisture let the timber take a curve along its own grain, without glue laminations and with far less offcut than sawing a curve from solid wood.

Kozo is a paper made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry, the same family of plants used for daluang, Java’s traditional bark paper. Its long fibres make it strong enough to stretch over a frame and translucent enough to glow. Unlike sailcloth or synthetic shades, it softens light rather than blocking it, and it can be replaced, patched, or composted at the end of its life. It’s a quiet link between Japanese papermaking and the Indonesian bark-paper tradition that the lamp comes from.

Steam-bent ash and kozo paper.

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