A poetic floor lamp with a design made possible by cutting-edge manufacturing techniques, Cho Light, by young Swiss designer Dimitri Bähler, combines traditional Japanese Washi paper with a breathtakingly thin carbon-fiber rod.

Swiss designer Dimitri Bähler launched his own studio in Biel in 2014 and has since been nominated for two Swiss Design Awards, directed a string of workshops and produced pieces for some of the world's most adventurous design brands. He studied product design at ECAL in Switzerland and at Design Academy Eindhoven in The Netherlands, before moving back to the area he grew up in to launch his practice. Bähler describes his approach as spontaneous, radical and poetic, but with a foundation in substantial material and structural research. In 2016, his experimental ceramics collection VPTC - created to explore the relationship between volumes, patterns, textures and colors by using both digital and traditional tools - was named as the grand prize winner at Biennale Interieur, the respected design biennial in Kortrijk, Belgium.

A globe of crumpled, off-white, traditional Japanese Washi paper creates a diffused glow from an LED bulb, which is adjustable via a dimmer (continuous touch dimmable foot switch, integrated in the cable). This shade balances on a 6mm diameter carbon-fiber rod, which extends up from a weighted base to create the design's almost impossibly light appearance. The tall, strong carbon-fiber rod produces a dancer-like movement when the light is touched, injecting a playfulness into the deceptive simplicity of Cho Light.