Multi Black

Multi Black is the most graphic and radical work in Thibault Philip’s Multi series. The membrane, animal intestine reclaimed from the food industry, is deeply pigmented with ancient textile pigments, so its translucency appears only where light passes through the thinnest layers. Twisted, layered and assembled by hand, the material needs no glue or resin, because its own natural proteins bind it as it dries. Unlit, the lamp reads as a dark, sculptural mass; lit, it shows the fragility and complexity of living matter. It sits between design and sculpture, and it is unique.