Every piece in this collection is built by hand from papier-mâché in our studio in Yerevan, Armenia: paper and paste layered over a form, dried slowly between layers and sealed. Pendant lamps glow through their own walls; bowls and vases keep the soft, uneven surface of the material. Everything is made to order, most pieces in your own size and colour, and shipped worldwide.
See how a papier-mâché lamp is made or how custom orders work.
A papier-mâché dome finished in soft ivory and edged with a hand-knotted cotton fringe.
A wide, shallow dome in warm terracotta, built up by hand in papier-mâché and sealed to a soft matte finish.
A rounded cap on a soft column, shaped entirely by hand in papier-mâché with a raw, sandy surface.
Small, shallow bowls pressed by hand from papier-mâché and tinted in soft clay pinks, reds and greys.
A deep bowl in dark cocoa papier-mâché, raised on three short feet, with the rim left torn and unsmoothed.
A low, wide bowl in warm oat papier-mâché, its outer wall left ridged from the shaping process.
A larger and a smaller bowl in dark cocoa papier-mâché, both with softly scalloped rims that echo one another.
A shallow, wide dish in sand-toned papier-mâché with a gently scalloped edge and a coarse, oatmeal-like surface.
The same wide dome silhouette as our terracotta pendant, built in papier-mâché but finished in a coarse, stony taupe.
A footed bowl in chalk-white papier-mâché with a deeply scalloped rim, raised on a solid pedestal base.
Small footed bowls in saturated teal and ochre, with scalloped rims and stubby tripod feet.
A gently tapered shade in soft ochre papier-mâché, hung from a twisted natural cord.
A broad dome in umber papier-mâché with the lower rim left torn and irregular.
A squared shade in umber papier-mâché on a slim white stand — the most conventional shape in the range, in a distinctly unconventional material.
A deep dome shaped by hand from recycled paper and finished in matte charcoal black, with fine vertical ridges left in the surface.
A mushroom lamp with a cast cement stem and a cap of recycled paper flecked with colour.
A brown papier-mâché dome ringed with a band of natural Armenian wool by arm.wool and finished with a fringe of small hanging discs that sway and catch the light.
A round decorative vase hand-built from recycled paper, with a short narrow neck and a small foot.
From the arm.wool × Zaré Designs collection: a pendant shade hand-crocheted from Armenian wool above a band of recycled paper.
A full-bellied vase striped in black and chalk white, built on a cement base with an outer layer of recycled paper.