The Swedish Design Studio Form Us With Love launched the Lace Metal lamp during the Milan Fair - a joint project together with the Italian design studio Cappellini. The idea behind the lamp came when they visited a Swedish metal working industry called H"afla Bruk, one of the oldest companies in Sweden, established 1682.

- When we visited H"afla, they had just invented a new technique of manufacturing expanded metal with gradient sized holes. This struck us as something very poetic, resembling textile or lace. We immediately felt that we wanted to make a lamp with this material, it has great characteristics for a lampshade. We always wanted to work with expanded metal since it's so rational, there is nothing going to waste when produced, the holes are made by puncturing and stretching the metal", says Form Us With Love.

Source: interiornews.com.