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Cardboard scraps brilliantly repurposed as light fixtures
Seattle-bred design collective Graypants turns heads with their handmade Scraplights, which proudly tell the story of the journey from dull, discarded cardboard box to stunning, unique light fixtures. The Scraplights come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes to fit any space. Here we feature our favorite, the Disc-16, which instills a curvaceous new spirit into salvaged pieces of corrugated cardboard.
Dimensions: 16.5" diameter x 7.5" height
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