ClothShop by Christopher Farr Cloth presents Illuminating Worlds: Light as Storytelling for London Craft Week. A collaborative exhibition showcasing a series of one-off hand-crafted lampshades that reimagine its surface as a site for storytelling, where light reveals colour and narrative. Created in collaboration with leading contemporary artists and makers, each piece brings a distinct visual language, forming a body of work that sits between art and design. Paired with handcrafted bases by master makers, all lampshades are available to purchase online with proceeds supporting Bridges for Communities, a charity that connects people of different cultures and faiths, enabling them to build friendships, grow in their understanding of one another and live well with difference.

Moroccan Lattice by Alvaro Picado

Inspired by a photograph taken in Morocco by Alvaro’s friend and artist Gavin Houghton during his residency in Marrakech, the design cleverly inverts positive and negative space, allowing the pattern to emerge through what is left unpainted. The colour draws on the vivid “Majorelle Blue” of Jardin Majorelle, the Marrakesh gardens created in the 1920s by Jacques Majorelle and later restored by Yves Saint Laurent.

A Barcelona-born, London-based artist known for his hand-painted lampshades that transform everyday objects into thoughtful works of design. Drawn to overlooked materials and modest forms, Picardo approaches each lampshade as a cylindrical canvas where colour, gesture and proportion must exist in careful balance. His practice emerged from a return to hands-on making in 2020, when he began painting discarded shades and discovered a new visual language.

Working by hand, no two pieces are the same. Each shade explores how light, surface and form interact to shape atmosphere within an interior. Picardo’s aesthetic is influenced by the clarity and colour of Mediterranean culture as well as London’s rich traditions of modern and post-war design.

Size: 14" fabric laminated lampshade
Fitting: UK/EU Gimbal Fitting