Oorjaa

The material list has grown past paper since. Cork, reclaimed from waste and prized for being lightweight and naturally textured. A faux concrete developed in-house from quarry dust and paper pulp, built to look and weigh less than actual concrete. And Lantana camara, an invasive shrub that has spread across more than 150,000 square kilometres of Indian forest and chokes out native habitat, stripped, boiled, and woven into lamp forms under a collection the studio calls Wild by Design. The studio's Gaia installation, made from Lantana and banana fibre, now lights the Kodagu Café at Bengaluru airport's Terminal 2.

Worth knowing before you buy: this sits at the luxury end of the price ladder, and because every piece is hand-sculpted from a material that behaves a little differently each time, no two lamps come out quite identical, which is the trade-off that comes with actually handmade paper rather than a manufacturing inconsistency.