Cho Table Lamp
Designed by Ernst / Bartholin Jensen
Named for the Japanese word for butterfly, Cho's shade is a single sheet of translucent PVC, curving into soft wings that shift with your point of view, at once grounded and weightless.
Beneath it, a slim powder-coated steel frame is shaped like a bridge, holding the shade in place and connecting form and function, structure and softness.
This is Cho in its original form: a black frame beneath a warm white shade. The contrast is graphic and clean - the steel reading like a drawn line, the shade like pure light - the design at its most essential. Made in Denmark.
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The shade is formed by pressing a flat sheet of translucent PVC into a curved, wing-like silhouette. Its form changes depending on the angle from which it is seen, giving the lamp a sculptural presence that invites interpretation.
With its semi-matte translucent shade, Cho diffuses light evenly and calmly into the room. In black, the steel frame comes forward — its slim, bridge-like legs reading as a clean drawn line against the soft white shade, the design at its most graphic.
Cho gives a warm, diffuse glow rather than a direct light — cosy and atmospheric. It's at home on a sideboard, shelf or bedside, wherever a room could use a little softness and mood.
Also available in colors matcha and terracotta.
- Shade in translucent, white PVC (same as foldable shade lamps)
- Black powder-coated steel base
- Black PVC cord
- Width: 23 cm
- Height: 35 cm
- Depth: 46 cm
- Weight: 0.7 kg
- Black cord with built-in rotary dimmer and plug
- E14 socket for dimmable LED light bulbs (not included). We recommend 2700K, max 3W, white matte.
Cho arrives flat packed, with the frame and shade separately packed in a cardboard box. The shade is formed by hand - simply apply pressure and rest it onto the steel frame.
Dust can be removed from both the inside and outside of the shade using a soft dry cloth or a vacuum cleaner with a soft brush attachment. For more thorough cleaning over time, gently wipe using a soft cloth lightly wrung in lukewarm water.
The result of a paper study
Cho is the result of a study on shapes that emerge when pressure is applied to an oval sheet of paper. A translucent wing, wedged into a slim black steel frame, that shifts with the point of view.
Cho means butterfly in Japanese, which is how the shape spoke to the designers. Lightness meeting solidity - white meeting black.
Designed by
Ernst / Bartholin Jensen
Anne-Mette Bartholin Jensen and Morten Ernst are Danish designers, trained as architects, working in furniture and lighting within the classic Danish design tradition.
That architectural grounding runs through their work: form treated as a matter of connection - between strength and lightness, function and feeling, material and the light that moves through it.
They design where structure meets the sensory, the visible carrying the felt.