With its digitally manufactured, design-forward lights crafted from sustainable, plant-based materials, California lighting brand Gantri is redefining what conscious lighting looks like – and the design world loves it.
California lighting brand Gantri has proved that beautiful things can be equally good for both people and planet. With its digitally manufactured, design-forward lights crafted from sustainable, plant-based materials, it’s redefining what conscious lighting looks like. Unsurprisingly, the company’s affordable, eco-sensitive lighting range has garnered it legions of fans in a design community hungry for ethical, high-impact pieces that don’t compromise on style.
From nebulous table lamps to traffic-signal-inspired floor lights, each Gantri piece is a sculptural statement that empowers self-expression and channels an unexpected whimsy that feels both contemporary and timeless. Its design language, paired with its eco-conscious ethos – each light is crafted from a biodegradable, plant-based polymer derived from sustainably grown, non-GMO sugarcane – has made it a firm favourite in the A&D world. Gantri lighting has featured in Time, Dezeen and Architectural Digest, won a GQ Home Award and, most recently, debuted at Paris Fashion Week, when the Bag table light featured on the catwalk of Los Angeles label TOMBOGO, which collaborated on the design.
Collaboration is at the heart of Gantri’s work. Its lighting collection with Michigan-based office furniture brand Haworth Inc. and design studio Prowl is an object lesson in curiosity, with each tabletop piece serving as a cheery antithesis to traditional task lighting. The company’s partnership with vintage furniture dealer Rarify on Cube One – a modular digitally manufactured light system built using components from Swiss furniture studio USM – is another bold experiment, effortlessly blending heritage design with future-forward fabrication.
Gantri works with a roster of 50-plus international designers to create its ranges. The Analog task light, conceived in plant-based polymers by LA industrial designer Chris Granneberg, is a Lego-like table lamp reminiscent of a street light. The Kero table lamp by San Francisco’s noun studio and the Maskor table lamp by Muka Design Lab in Spain evoke a lantern and a mushroom respectively, while the Cantilever table light by Brooklyn-based Louis Filosa is a moon-shaped tabletop element.
Personalising the Gantri experience is something the company has perfected equally. Its entire repertoire of products – all manufactured in the US – is fully customisable, while its vertically integrated digital manufacturing process also means that each design is available in 26 colourways.
In a world where sustainability often comes at the expense of style – or vice versa – Gantri stands as proof that the two can not only coexist but elevate one another. With its bold commitment to material innovation, democratic design and creative collaboration, the brand continues to illuminate the path forward – one consciously crafted light at a time.
