Walnut and Holly Golden Ratio Shoji Table Lamp with Unryu paper
American Walnut, is a hard, tough wood prized in fine furniture design. Holly, ranges in color from white to ivory. Holly has a very close irregular grain with little or no discernible figure.No stains or dyes are applied to the woods. The Unryu White Kozo Paper is made in Thailand, its pulp harvested from sustainably-grown mulberry trees and Kozo plants. Unryu, which literally means "Cloud Dragon Paper," is made by adding long swirling fibers to a basic kozo pulp.
I call this lamp the Golden Ratio Lamp because its design illustrates a mathematical function known as the Golden Ratio.
The Golden Ratio (which mathematicians designate with the Greek letter phi = φ) is often called The Most Beautiful Number In The World.
The Golden Ratio is also known as the Golden Section, Golden Mean, Divine Proportion. The Golden Ratio exists when a line is divided into two parts and the longer part (a) divided by the smaller part (b) is equal to the sum of (a) + (b) divided by (a), which both equal 1.618.
The reason φ is so extraordinary is because this relationship can be found throughout the universe, from the shapes of galaxies to the geometry to the human body itself.
There is a special relationship between the Golden Ratio and what is known as the Fibonacci Sequence:
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, … (The next number is found by adding up the two numbers before it.) Take any two successive (one after the other) Fibonacci Numbers, and their ratio is very close to the Golden Ratio. The Fibonacci sequence is also found throughout nature. The number of petals on a flower, for instance, will often be a Fibonacci number. The seeds of sunflowers and pine cones twist in opposing spirals of Fibonacci numbers.
I strongly advise you to research the Golden Ratio and discover its wondrous presence in our world.