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Charlie Vinz - 7 Pants Lamp

$500.00

7 Pants Lamp, 2025

Cotton, wood glue

24 Inch Diameter

7 Pants Lamp is part of an ongoing exploration of using exhausted textiles as raw material to weave new forms with the textiles, combined with a hardening solution, performing a more structurally ambitious role. In this case, 7 pairs of pants are torn up and woven back together into a sphere shape to create a gradient pattern shade. My design and architecture work is oriented around strategies of adaptive reuse, which involves assigning new roles and values to existing materials, and deciding how much of the original material role remains intact and legible.

7 Pants Lamp, 2025

Cotton, wood glue

24 Inch Diameter

7 Pants Lamp is part of an ongoing exploration of using exhausted textiles as raw material to weave new forms with the textiles, combined with a hardening solution, performing a more structurally ambitious role. In this case, 7 pairs of pants are torn up and woven back together into a sphere shape to create a gradient pattern shade. My design and architecture work is oriented around strategies of adaptive reuse, which involves assigning new roles and values to existing materials, and deciding how much of the original material role remains intact and legible.

Charlie Vinz

Charlie Vinz is an architect, designer, artist, and educator based in the Midwest. He studied architecture at IIT (B.Arch 04’) and Bauhaus Universitat Weimar. He was previously Creative Director for Rebuilding Exchange, and has designed projects for artists such as Amber Ginsburg, Claire Pentecost, Theaster Gates, and Jim Duignan among many others. Vinz is the 2024-25 recipient of the J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize in Columbus, Indiana, with an installation currently on display as part of the Exhibit Columbus design biennial. His design practice, Adaptive Operations, was founded in 2013 and has undertaken the design of art spaces such as Watershed, Narrow Bridge Arts Club, and Buddy, as well as restaurants such as Parachute HiFi, Life On Marz Community Club, and Superkhana International. Vinz teaches at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and is currently architect in residence at Ox Bow School of Art and Artist Residency.