Tabitha Bargh transforms everyday materials into sustainable and sculptural lampshades.
Credit: Veega Tankun
Brighton-based product designer, Tabitha Bargh unveils the new Poly collection - made from an unusual and often overlooked material, discarded plastic advertising boards.
Tabitha repurposes the plastic boards into contemporary lampshades. Each piece is precisely crafted and features intricate folds and pleats. Her work brings sustainability to the forefront from its manufacturing in Brighton to reimagining mundane materials into desirable products for the interiors market.
Credit: Veega Tankun
Credit: Veega Tankun
Credit: Veega Tankun
Tabitha’s practice is led by materiality. She combines her love for humble materials such as cardboard, paper and plastic with technicality to produce products which celebrate everyday materials.
I love to challenge the expectations of materials, combining technicality and creativity to bring beauty to the basic.
"Creating the Poly collection from a waste material has its own challenges and I get such joy transforming this disregarded material into a desirable product. There is a magical moment when the simple white lampshade is switched on revealing its individual colour and pattern”, Tabitha comments.
The new Poly range features five designs that are formed from disused estate agent advertising boards. Crafted from Correx, a typically unsustainable and non-biodegradable polypropylene, Bargh has explored how the material can be creatively re-used and transformed into something new and unexpected.
Credit: Veega Tankun
Credit: Veega Tankun
Credit: Veega Tankun
The collection is sustainably sourced, designed and methodically manufactured in Bargh’s Brighton-based studio. The cone, cylinder and drum shaped lampshades range in size from 22cm to 48cm in diameter and are designed to work with ceiling and table lights and floor lamps. The colour palette is dependent on the boards that Bargh receives, with small batch runs making each lampshade a limited design.
Poly is Tabitha's second lighting collection and follows on from ‘CartOn’, a range of cardboard crafted lampshades that are 100% recyclable.
Her collections are designed for modern interiors, including private residences and commercial spaces.
