This design studio spent 10 years perfecting a lampshade made out of bacteria

The lampshades for the Cenit lighting system are made from bacteria grown using agro-industrial fruit waste.

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The Cenit lighting system is grown to order.

That’s because the collection of pendant and table lamps, designed by Mexican biotech company Polybion and Mexican design studio Natural Urbano, uses lampshades grown from bacteria.

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