Designer Haneul Kim has joined forces with CGV, South Korea's largest cinema chain, to form a series of table lamps from the company's discarded screens.
Over the past two years, CGV has had to remove or replace more than 70 of its cinema screens due to damage or theatre closures in the wake of the pandemic, resulting in a large volume of potential waste.
Haneul Kim has made lamps from cinema screens
Each screen has a total area of over ten square metres and is made from a PVC-backed plastic that is extremely robust, flexible and fire retardant, which Kim says makes them suitable for various uses.
The material is also able to diffuse light due to its finely perforated surface, which allows sound from speakers located behind the cinema screen to reach the auditorium. Some now stand on tables in CGV's premium cinemas
"Looking at these holes in the waste screen, I discovered a visual similarity with the aluminium perforated plate used in industrial materials," the designer told Dezeen. "I imagined what it would be like to replace the sound emitted through the screen with light."
The first lights Kim produced for CGV were small portable table lamps with a cylindrical body and larger cylindrical shade.

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The designer makes the lamps himself by cutting the screens into strips that he wraps around simple shades made from wire and trans...