2016

ISKOS-BERLIN

ISKOS – BERLIN is a Copenhagen based studio, founded in 2010 by design duo Boris Berlin & Aleksej Iskos. Their activities cover a broad spectrum of design fields from product and furniture design to graphic, exhibition and interior design. Their cooperation began at KOMPLOT Design, where Boris Berlin was a co-founder and partner, and Aleksej was employed as an assistant for more than 11 years.

The products designed first within KOMPLOT and then in ISKOS – BERLIN have won numerous national and international Design Awards and are represented in collections of several design museums around the world. Among them are the Design Museum Denmark; Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich; Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein; Museum of Modern Art, New York and more.

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Knit-Wit

Though knitting is an old craft, it hasn’t yet been exploited for modern design lamps, and this was the fundamental aspiration for Made by Hand. The knitted materiality of the Knit-Wit lamp distributes light through the yarn’s pattern, making each lamp distinctive and decorative. The Knit-Wit family of lamps with their basic shape, warmth and lightness, range of sizes and wide color palette can easily and naturally find their place in any interior – from private houses to public spaces. The Knit-Wit family comes in wide color palette and a range of sizes.

Knitting Work

Knitting is an old craft, but not used for modern design lamps before Made by Hand started to explore how it was possible to create a knitted lamp with aesthetic beauty and functional light, back in 2016. In the beautiful countryside in Austria, we found a very experienced old company, Kobleder, a third-generation family with many years of skilled knowledge of knitting production.
The Knit-Wit lamp is a 3D knitted shade made of flame retardant yarns creating a very poetic distribution of light. After several years of testing ideas, design shapes and knitted prototypes, the Knit-Wit lamp emerged with the help of the engineers and technical skilled people at Kobleder, helping us and the designers to solve the knitting part. Today each Knit-Wit lamp is knitted without any waste in the production.
The new Flying lamp from 2023 is also 3D knitted in Austria by Kobleder and has the same sustainable foundation as Knit-wit lamp even though the design is very different.

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