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Ceiling Lamp Prototype
What I promised several times (here and here), I finally did. I made a lamp! Now PapeRanpu portfolio includes, besides the Pendant, also a Ceiling. Still a prototype though so don’t rush for your checkbook, it is not available for sale yet. In this post, I’ll show you how I made it, how I installed…
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The Workshop
Yes, yes, I wrote that I’ll make a wood-and-rice-paper lamp, but that is kind of hard to do in a messy and ill lit workshop. So I took some time to improve my working conditions. I am guessing it might be interesting for some of the readers to see how a workshop can fit in…
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The Case
As hinted in the previous post, I spent a few months trying to do something without much success. Here I’ll explain why it was so and what finally came out of these semi-vane efforts. It started with a meeting with a fellow creator, one much more experienced and successful than me. He, who shall remain…
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Packaging
After the initial barrage of posts on the origin of PapeRanpu, I’ve gone silent for far too long and am writing this just to let you know I’m still alive. As you might have guessed, my disappearance from the blogosphere has been caused by my lack of engagement. It is not that I have not…
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Serial Production
As announced in the previous post, this one will showcase what serial production of PapeRanpu pendant lamps looks like. As I went into details of the manufacturing process in that previous post, this last one will be more of a photo gallery in order not to repeat myself. But first, some introduction is needed. After…
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3rd Version
After a flop with the version 2.0 of the pendant lamp, of which you can learn in the previous post, I had a brilliant idea: why not search the Interweb for instructions on how to make such lamps? Someone else must have made something similar and put up instructions on youtube! In hindsight, this was…
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2nd Version
This is the second post in the series on how PapeRanpu got started. If you fancy, you can check the first post here. If not, just continue reading. With the start of covid pandemic in 2020. I discovered podcasts and got especially hooked on the Tim Ferriss Show. I embarked on an epic adventure of…
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How it all Started
It was somewhere in 2011 or 2012, a year or two after we moved into our new apartment, that I made my first pendant lamp. Up until then we had bare lightbulbs hanging from the ceiling, as it often happens. At first there are more essential things to arrange in the apartment and by the…
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Hello World!
This is a place where I will tell my story and answer questions such as why I came to make japanese style wood and paper lamps, how I make them, when and where. I will also write up any news related to PapeRanpu here. Sit tight, first real post is coming soon!
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