Laura Aviva's woven lighting collection.
Nudos, Armadillo, Mariposa, Oso Hormiguero 2 lights by L’Aviva Home.

Laura Aviva Works With Colombian Weavers for Werregue Lighting Collection

Eight years ago, creative director Laura Aviva noticed the baskets in a friend’s home in Colombia. “Their heft, circular weave, and silky, shiny fiber made them unlike any I’d ever seen,” she remembers. The water-tight baskets were woven by the Wounaan, an indigenous group from the country’s Pacific Coast, and made of werregue, a native palm fiber. Aviva set out to work with the Wounaan on a lighting collection for her New York design studio. The result is Werregue, 22 one-of-a-kind black-and-white pendants with fiber shades made by hand in Colombia. Fitted with brass hardware, each piece takes over a month to create and incorporates traditional designs. “The bold, graphic patterning provides a mirror into the world of the weaver,” Aviva says.

Nudos, Armadillo, Mariposa, Oso Hormiguero 2 lights by L'Aviva Home.
Nudos, Armadillo, Mariposa, Oso Hormiguero 2 lights by L’Aviva Home.
Armadillo pendant light by L'Aviva Home.
Armadillo
Oso Hormiguero 2 pendant light by L'Aviva Home.
Oso Hormiguero 2
Tambo pendant light by L'Aviva Home.
Tambo
Montañas De Tierra, Místico De Sanacion, Escaleras, Armadillo, Serpiente De Verrugas pendant lights by L'Aviva Home.
Montañas De Tierra, Místico De Sanacion, Escaleras, Armadillo, Serpiente De Verrugas

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