​This collaborative project between TPCreative and META Design brings together wood crossarms from Taiwan Power Company (Taipower), which were used to hold up power lines for power transmission but are currently no longer in use, and META Design's classic bedside reading lamp, resulting in the birth of the jointly-developed WhimsE010 lamp.

     In order to show the process involved in transforming a retired wood crossarm into a WhimsE010 bedside reading lamp, we have specially created a conceptual installation artwork that showcases each of the hundred over steps the materials go through in the production process. These moments, frozen in time, allow the public to understand how a weathered and retired wood crossarm undergo a metamorphosis to become the exquisite lamps the public sees before their eyes. A wood crossarm has to be subjected to more than a hundred steps including rift-cutting, planing, digital carving, sanding, and oiling before it can be made into about 8 to 12 bedside reading lamps. This conceptual installation artwork freezes each moment of the production process to showcase every detail of every step that goes into the birth of the lamp.

In Search of A Tree's Third Lease of Life

     "The fall of a tree marks the beginning of its next phase in life." This is our faith, our belief. Wood is used to make objects that fulfill the needs in our daily lives. For some objects, once they have accomplished their mission, their meaning is lost, and with it, the value of their existence. We hope to give these trees a third lease of life through our design.

​     In the past, META has created products with recycled materials such as wooden pallets, wooden boxes, and wooden window frames. This year, we are collaborating with TPCreative for the first time to produce a special edition Whims E010 lamp using wood crossarms from Taiwan Power Company (Taipower), which were used to hold up power lines for power transmission but are currently no longer in use. By bringing together these "retired" materials and META's classic bedside reading lamp, the wood gains a new lease of life and returns to our daily lives in a new form.

     In Taipower's material management system, every component is given an item number. The material used in this lamp is from wood crossarms, which has an item number of "E010". By incorporating the "E010" item number into the name of the lamp, we are giving consumers the option to search for more information on "E010" wood crossarms to learn more about materials used in power transmission and understand the role that power transmission equipment plays in our day-to-day lives.
  
     The fall of a tree marks the beginning of its next phase in life. META's objective is to realize a third lease of life for these trees so as to maximize the value of their wood. This is the least that we can do as human beings, we who ceaselessly deplete the earth's resources. Our encounter with Taipower on this journey gives us faith that we can keep going. At the same time, we look forward to having more people supporting us and joining us in this cause.
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What's New META at Maison&Objet

     Welcome to visit META at Maison&Objet Paris 2020. We are glad to share the NEWS. The lamp, SMILE, is selected to “What’s New “ by M&O. You can see it in Hall 2, and we also invite you to visit META in Hall 6 stand E63. 
     At the “WHAT’S NEW?” spaces within the MAISON&OBJET fair, the latest trends come to life through the subtle, inspiring, and diverse selection of new products by our trend analysts. 

Find more detail about the pendant lamp, Smile. more..

A window of yours, my corner of light. 
Whims LED reading wall  lamp - Special Edition

Old objects are the containers of memory.
Over time, they have been refined, with some of them fading away from our memory.
Those who still preserve, subtly prove the value of their existence.
META aims to find a new state of existence for Taiwan’s unique cypress doors and windows.
Using the cast-off cypress window and door frames from old house renovation,
We make these needless materials regenerate as reading lamps.
Wish this memory and the smell of wood always be with us, through the light.

APSIS LED Wood Desk Lamp
Zak Stratfold

APSIS LED Wood Desk Lamp: Illuminate more than just your desk
      Lamps provide us light and energy in dark spaces, just like sunlight nourishes the world. META Design 2019 new launch: the APSIS LED wood desk lamp, innovated by British designer Zak Stratfold, finds inspiration in the relationship between Earth and Sun. Its design evokes an armillary sphere, with the round lamp head representing the Sun and the marble base symbolizing Earth. With an APSIS lamp on your desk, your reading experience becomes almost cosmic. 
      Like the Sun, APSIS can give off warm, natural, and cold shades of white light, and the user can modulate shade and brightness with a single touch. The rotating lamp head allows light to be thrown not only onto a desk surface, but also onto a wall or ceiling if desired. Flexible directionality and an adjustable tone give you the freedom to create many different internal atmospheres. The lamp’s concave marble base also provides space for conveniently storing small, important objects. 

Whims made of upcycle pallet wood.

The first step is to remove the nails carefully from the pallet wood.

Plan the wood.

Now the recycled wood looks refreshed, and ready for the following processing.