The Booi washes ashore as a versatile pendant lamp that looks great in groups or solo resting on a table or the floor.

Graypants may moor their efforts across two studios based in Seattle and Amsterdam, but they’ve been adept at bridging distances and articulating a warmly cohesive crafted expression of forms across their portfolio. Their designs feel comfortable and immediately recognizable, yet delivered with modernized detailing that steer the designs toward refreshment rather than retro. It’s an effort previously best expressed by their evocative USB-C battery powered Wick candlelight, and now again conveyed by the Booi, a pendant light designed by Norwegian designer Cathrine Bækken.
Booi looks especially fetching when hung in groups at different heights, a design allows for both hanging and placement as an easy-going sculptural table or floor lamp. Booi wears its nautical-inspired details openly, with boat rounded fenders and traditional glass fishing floats originally designed by Norwegian merchant Christopher Faye inspiring Bækken’s contemporary LED-illuminating interpretation. These glass balls are still occasionally found washed ashore, a beachcomber’s prized discovery. With Booi, Bækken offers the same pleasure sans the shoreline hunt, delivering on the studio’s mantra of “Dream big. Scribble often. Make thoughtfully.”

With a CNC cut and hand-finished ash or walnut wooden top capping a translucent Opal glass ...