Salù Iwadi Studio is a design studio at the intersection of creativity and cultural exploration, dedicated to uncovering and celebrating the rich heritage of the African diaspora.
Gèlèdé Lamp Intimate Single Vessel, Salù Iwadi Studio
Gèlèdé lamp with intimate single vessel, Salù Iwadi Studio.
A sculptural lamp collection grounded in the Gèlèdé tradition, where the power of women within the community is publicly celebrated as an essential act to social balance, continuity, and the generative force of life itself.
The lamp is composed of an ovoid carved oak wooden vessel that evokes the womb, the calabash, and the orí, the head regarded in Yoruba culture as the seat of destiny. Each vessel is pierced by sand-cast brass spirals that compress and filter light, releasing it outward with measured intensity. This layered interplay of wood and brass creates an architecture of restraint where illumination is disciplined, protected, and gradually revealed.
This piece translates this structure into an intimate scale, where the same generative force is brought into proximity, held closer to the body, yet maintaining its full conceptual weight.
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