Wall Light with aluminium, sapele and calico by Freddy Tuppen

Freddy Tuppen’s wall light is built from the simplest grammar – folded calico, ribbed sapele, slender aluminum brackets and assembled with the patience of an architect drawing in section. The accordion pleated fabric and zigzagged wood ribs run in parallel rhythms; the whole structure holds itself off the wall on cantilevered struts, and the bulb glows from inside the layered veils rather than from any single point. Light is filtered, doubled, softened. What you see is diffusion, not source.

The piece carries the same logic Tuppen brings to everything he makes – humble materials, uncomplicated forms, constraints treated as possibilities. Each fold catches the warmth differently. Each rib casts a slow shadow on the next. Within the framework of Between the Fields, Tuppen’s luminous objects are read as contemporary monoliths: atmospheric presences poised between relic and proposition, glowing as much from memory as from the bulb behind the calico.

Made by hand in his London studio. Custom colours, shapes and sizes available on request.