Natural Home Magazine

This unique line of custom-designed, recycled wood light fixtures comes in a variety of sizes and shapes, in both hanging and standing styles. When lit, they radiate beams onto walls. The Starflower light (shown here, $400) is handcrafted from recycled fruit and flower crates. $150 to $600, metaForm studio.

Natural Home Magazine
July/August 2002

Dwell

MetaForm Studio has turned the pastime of salvaging trash and foraging amongst castoffs into a fine art. Architect and designer Khader Humied and his wife, artist Chris Randolph, started the studio three years ago as a complement to Humied’s sustainable achitecture firm, with the intent to reuse and remake discarded materials into modern designs. Wood pallets become desks and stools, car tires are reborn as chairs, and metal pipes become the arms and legs of sofas. Our favorite product, however, is the couple’s new Sunflower lights, made of slats and strips of old flower and fruit crates found on the streets of Manhattan’s flower district, which are twisted and gently bent into latticed lamps that cast subtle gradients of light.

Dwell
October/November

New York Spaces

Metaform Studio’s Zulu hanging light, $400, is designed to project a symmetrical pattern onto walls. It’s crafted from recycled crate wood and measures 24 inches tall by 14 inches wide.

New York Spaces
July 2007

Domino

Hanging lights: Recycled-wood "Conga" $550 each, metaformstudio.com

Domino
March 2007