Seth Grizzle: Graypants Co-Founder and the Scraplights Story

From cardboard chairs to Scraplights

The studio’s lighting began almost by accident. Grizzle built a series of chairs from found cardboard, then turned the scraps into lights, and the lights stole the show. That became Scraplights, Graypants’ first collection: pendants like the Moon, the Ausi and the Hive, made from layers of recycled cardboard. Grizzle calls the process a “high-tech, low-tech scenario”: computers for the design, human hands for the assembly.

“It’s a material that we respect and honor. There’s an honesty behind it, and we’ve always stayed true to what it is.”

Seth Grizzle, Graypants co-founder, to Business of Home, 2021

Wick

Wick is the lamp his name is on directly, designed with Arno Ruijzenaars and Erwin Termaat as a collaboration between the Amsterdam and Seattle studios. It is a cordless LED lamp made on the belief that light is meant to be shared, and the original was named a winner of The Competition and a Best of Year Awards finalist.

The rest of the studio’s work

Below Wick you will find other Graypants designs, from the Kerflights and Chrona to the Roest. They are studio designs from the company he co-founded, not all credited to him by name.