Cho Table Lamp Matcha
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.
In this Matcha edition the base takes a soft, muted green from it, the shade glowing warm white above. Made in Denmark.
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The shade's deep fold does the work: light passes through the translucent PVC soft and diffuse, warm and muted, without hard edges or glare. PVC makes that fold possible - holding a curve, and a depth, that a folded sheet couldn't keep.
The base takes its cue from a bridge - carrying the shade on a precise steel line, structure meeting softness. Nature sets the palette: the Matcha edition's soft, muted green sits alongside terracotta as one of the natural tones that ground the design.
Cho gives a warm, diffuse light rather than a direct one - a cosy, atmospheric glow. It's at home on a sideboard, shelf or bedside, wherever a room could use a little softness and mood.
Also available in Terracotta and Black.
- Shade in translucent white PVC
- Matcha powder-coated steel base
- PVC cord
- Width: 23 cm
- Height: 35 cm
- Depth: 46 cm
- Weight: 0.7 kg
- Black PVC cord with built-in rotary dimmer with plug
- E14 socket for dimmable LED light bulbs (bulb not included). We recommend 2700K, max 3W, white matte
Cho arrives flat packed, with the frame and shade separately packed in a cardboard box. Apply the shade with light pressure and rest it onto the steel frame. No installation needed.
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.
Inspired by matcha - a green of quiet grounding and renewal.
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. Architecture meets lightness.
Designed by
Ernst / Bartholin Jensen
Danish architects Anne-Mette Bartholin Jensen and Morten Ernst build upon the classic Danish design tradition.
"Light and form are inseparable - they shape how they design, how objects move in space, and how we experience them." Anne-Mette Bartholin Jensen
Beauty as something calm and subtle, found in contrast, texture and moments that invite stillness - approaching design as a sensory experience rather than a fixed object.