Dezeen Showroom: Spanish designer Ceci Ferrero worked with a leather alternative made from plants to produce distinctive pendant lamps for natural handmade decor brand Let's Pause.

The Couro collection is made using couro, a leather-like material made from the dry, waste leaves of American palm trees, which has a translucent appearance that diffuses light.

The Couro collection includes the Couro 8 Leafs lamp shade, where the shape of the leaves is preserved and they are draped into an artichoke-like arrangement – or as Let's Pause describes them, an "elegant skirt of spikes".

Let's Pause suggests the pendants will look equally striking over a dining table or at the entrance to a hotel, and that they can be hung individually or in clusters of varying heights.

"The texture of the leaves, with their compact fibres, evokes aged leather and provides a unique tactile element," said Let's Pause.

Each shade is supported by a brown frame made from aluminium and is accompanied by a black plug and a 2.5-meter-long matte black cotton electric cord.

Product details:

Product: Couro
Designer: Ceci Ferrero
Brand: Let's Pause
Contact: [email protected]

Material: couro, aluminium, cotton
Colours/finishes: dark brown
Dimensions: 400 x 20 x 900 millimetres

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