UC165
glassfiber laminated woodchips from our own fabrication process
110x90x70 cm
Year built
2026
Function
Lighting
Status
Available
UC96 left us with unfinished business since Marbella Design 2024.
The original idea had always been a ceiling lamp — not a wall light. Halfway through making UC96 we realised that hanging it was not going to be straightforward with the form it had taken, so we changed course. It stayed on the back burner. Marbella Design 2026 was the right moment to come back to it.
Marbella Design is one of the most significant interior design events in Spain, one we take part in every year. It is the stage where we bring our most ambitious pieces and where AMBER has built much of its trajectory.
Same materials: Spanish walnut for all the structure, and the shade casing laminated in fibreglass with shavings from the same walnut. This time we wanted to go bigger.
Iñigo drew a shape with generous, suggestive forms for the mould, and we built an asymmetric casing with no defined centre of mass — which makes the ceiling fixing a challenge in itself. We didn't want a clumsy solution interfering with the form, so we resolved the mounting with strips of wood shaped to the contour of the casing, acting as a clamp between the interior support and the shell. The lamp always hangs level, and the fixing almost disappears.
To bring more warmth than UC96, we lightly tinted the casing. Twelve bulbs distributed across the entire geometry ensure even light diffusion throughout a piece that, lit up, looks like nothing we have made before.
At this edition, AMBER was awarded first prize for best ecological and sustainable project. Part of the credit belongs to this piece — true to our concept of elevating discarded materials, this time not just the wood itself but even its shavings.
