B A M ! B O O !
Lamp Shade, Structural Element, Diffuser, Sculpture
Creazione SUGO, in collaboration with KARBONY Italy—pioneers of the world’s first commercially woven carbon fiber furniture—presents a system that resists easy classification: at once light, structure, and atmosphere.
Conceived by Hong Kong–born designer Kevin Chu, the project draws from the quiet intelligence of bamboo forests—where repetition, growth, and resilience converge into an architecture without blueprint. This sensibility is translated into a woven carbon fiber language, where extreme lightness meets structural precision.
At its core lies a bamboo-inspired sheath connection system: an ultra-light modular framework that can extend seamlessly across space. It operates with remarkable versatility—becoming floor or ceiling lighting, while simultaneously functioning as a structural support for tables, shelving, or larger spatial compositions. Components can be assembled, repositioned, or dismantled with minimal effort, their near-weightless nature allowing even a single gesture to redefine the whole.
What distinguishes the system is not only its adaptability, but its environmental logic. The woven carbon fiber process produces zero industrial emissions, while all fibers are sourced from recycled stock—reintroduced into a cycle where strength is retained, not diminished. The result is a material economy where waste becomes structure, and performance aligns with responsibility.
From a single unit—intimate, almost domestic—the system can expand into immersive installations, evoking the spatial purity of a bamboo grove. Light filters through the woven surfaces, casting shadows that shift with air and movement, recalling the subtle choreography of leaves in the wind.
In this duality of lightness and strength, the project proposes a new typology: the world’s first woven carbon fiber light diffuser that is also structural. A single design unit generates an entire ecosystem—scalable, efficient, and inherently open-ended.
More than an object, it is a framework for imagination.
















