Bespoke lighting usually starts with a conversation—less about watts and lumens, more about how a space should feel.
For this project, commissioned by Atelier Wren for Hoppers in Shoreditch, the brief was simple on paper: create a series of pendants that felt warm, tactile, and inviting, but still held their own within a carefully curated restaurant interior.
We began with structure. Each pendant is built around a bespoke metal frame, fabricated in our London studio to get the proportions just right for the space. It’s the quiet backbone of the piece—giving it clarity and shape—while the raffia does the more expressive work.
And there was… quite a lot of raffia.
As a team, we unravelled and prepared over five kilometres of it (which, for context, is a very tedious task). Only then could we begin weaving it by hand around each frame. It’s a slow, detailed process—part patience, part rhythm—but that’s where the character comes through. The aim wasn’t perfection, but consistency with just enough irregularity to keep things feeling natural.
The end result is lighting that feels soft, textural, and a little bit alive—pieces that quietly do their job while adding depth and warmth to the room.