Nion Collection
The Nion Lamp Collection is a limited edition small batch production lighting range. The complete edition is made from a single Ash tree, felled locally in London. Each batch is made from a single tree and each lamp is designed to be produced and made entirely of the wood from this tree, including the switch and plug.
The collection includes a small side/task lamp, a desk lamp and a floor lamp. Batch quantities are kept deliberately small; dictated solely by the volume of timber provided annually by a single locally sourced tree.
The Nion Collection, New Native’s first product launch will be shipped in beautiful reusable, collapsible packaging that is designed to fold up, ready for free return post for us to reuse repeatedly to ship more lamps.
Task Lamp
This small lamp makes a beautifully warm side table light, occasional or handy task lamp.
The production concept behind the collection serves to implement a more thoughtful approach to designed products. Rather than limitless production, built on externalised environmental costs and the notion of an endless supply of resources, we are building a more suitable model that better reflects the reality of our environmental, geographical and economic circumstances. Creating an approach built on a human scale, with more appropriate resources, circular material streams and production methods. Small is beautiful.
Desk Lamp
The original Nion Lamp, this desk version inspired the creation of the task and floor lamps to become a small collection. The desk lamp is an ideal and calming home or office desk light, we even use them at home as bedside reading lights.
Each batch is produced with a unique batch and edition number, accompanied by a beautiful artwork / certificate of authenticity detailing the lamp’s origins and the location of the tree from which it was sourced.
Floor Lamp
The Nion floor lamp can truly transform a space; with a good pot plant or small tree the combination of warm light, soft wood tones and foliage make for a calming niche in any space.
Features
The collection features a wooden switch, power plug, mounting clamp and bulb holder alongside the main body of the lamp. By using local wood; a naturally carbon storing, reusable, renewable, bio-degradable and non-toxic material, the collection intends in an entirely safe, functional yet playful way, to avoid the unnecessary introduction of further plastic in to the present environment or future material streams.
Push Switch
Playfully designed to emulate the beautiful simplicity, form and proportion of traditional wooden toys, this switch has delightfully satisfying sound when pushed. Like the features below, it is completely modular, made entirely from wood, with all parts being repairable and replaceable.
Power Plug
The plug is our greatest technical challenge in terms of safety and production is made inside and out from wood. As far as plugs go, it’s a very pleasing plug to use indeed. Designed to fit snugly in the grip of your hand. The internal is coated in a biodegradable non- toxic insulating rubber.
Lamp Holder
The wooden lampholder, eliminates the need a plastic alternative. It makes for a playful and beautiful solution that continues the materiality of the lamp throughout.
Mounting Clamp
The clamp is arguably the most unusual part of the Nion Lamp. These lamps don’t stand on their own. We like to use potted plants, that was the original intention at least, but they do work just as perfectly on a table edge, bookshelf, side table or bench. The choice is yours.
More about the Nion Lamp
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We will be launching a dedicated pre-order page very soon. Here you will get priority on the pre-order shop and limited pre-order prices. To get advance notice of the pre-order launch and early access to the shop sign-up to our mailing list. We’ll email you with a special link to the pre-order shop telling you when we go live.
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All the Nion lamps are handmade in a single batch in our London workshop, using a combination of traditional craftsmanship and digital machining techniques. We take the wood from felled tree through every stage of the journey to the finished lamp before finishing and waxing every part by hand, then to assembly, quality assurance and testing.
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All our materials have been chosen for their sustainability and suitability to match three critical criteria.
1) Provenance
It is crucial to us that we can trace the origins of all the elements we use to make the lamps. It is important to us that we have confidence in the transparency and validity of processes, practices and ingredients used in their production. So anything we use we can use with the knowledge of where it comes from and with confidence that it has been produced ethically, and with care for the environment.
2) Locality & Community
We only use parts and materials that we can source as locally as possible, and always from within the region we are based in; the South West of England. Partly for the same reasons as for their provenance. But just as importantly because we are building a community, we like to meet people, to make connections, build partnerships and support small local businesses like ourselves as we grow, in turn supporting the local economy and the local community.
3) Healthy for you & the environment
You might notice a pattern with our material criteria, they are all connected, and they all prioritise achieving the greatest possible benefit, and the least amount of harm for us, for our customers and for the planet. This requires us to reduce the materials, processes and finishes we use to ones that we trust to be non-toxic, and cleanly renewable and biodegradable.
All lamps will have a specification sheet detailing the specifics of materials and suppliers used.
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We commence production of the 2022 Nion Collection Limited Edition batch at the close of the pre-order window. Production will last 6-8 weeks in total.
After final checks we begin packaging and shipping immediately to pre-order customers then later orders from the website shop.
If you have any questions before you order or about your order or please email us at hello@newnative.co.uk and we will respond to your question within 24hrs.
We ship from the UK, to EU countries and internationally. If you would like to check our shipping rates to your country please contact us by email or our Instagram page.
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Each lamp will come with an Edition No. Certificate / artwork, dated with the makers mark and some additional information we think you’ll find meaningful about provenance and history of the tree used to make your lamp. They are really beautiful artworks in their own right but their purpose is primarily to confirm batch and edition authenticity.
Nion’s meaning
The collections names is an acknowledgement of an important mindset and historical tradition. Nion (ᚅ) is the name of the 7th letter of the Ogham alphabet of the ancient Celts. In their arboreal tradition each letter of Ogham alphabet represents a specific native tree. The Nion character represents the Ash tree in the Ogham tree alphabet.
In its prime, this system of association served as a repeating reference and reminder that trees held myriad practical, ecological, historical, cultural, medicinal and spiritual significance to their culture, and so were not viewed as purely lifeless sources of raw material. Much of their wisdom, observations and beliefs have subsequently been validated by scientific, geological, and anthropological study.
With the delicately balanced prospect of ecological calamity looming, this attitude towards trees and the significant role they play holds perhaps as much if not more value now than it did then.
Kinder Shipping
We are re-thinking packaging and shipping with care for nature, our customers and our products.