RUSSO BETAK

RUSSO BETAK is a Copenhagen studio formed by Stefannia Russo, from Brazil, and Soren Betak, from Denmark, that 3D prints biomaterials sourced from waste into lighting. Discarded oyster, mussel and scallop shells are collected from the food industry and blended with a biopolymer; the shells themselves give the pieces their pigmentation and their light diffusion.

The studio uses a self-built robotic system to print flat sheets that are then shaped by hand while the material is still warm, so that the gestures of making stay in the cooled form. Its Ark collection, named after the Danish word for sheet, was launched at Salone del Mobile; the studio works from Blagardsgade 51 in Copenhagen.