The Ruff Lamp is a 3D printed lamp by Mina Wright — ten stacked recycled PLA rings translating a 16th-century ruff collar into precise, layered geometry.

At 35cm tall, the 3D printed lamp builds its shade from 8–10 concentric frilled rings over a narrow cylindrical core. Each ring carries a rippling edge — wavy micro-serrations 5–8mm deep — formed entirely by FDM layer geometry, no sanding applied. The material is 100% recycled PLA from corn starch, sourced from the Netherlands, printed in an off-white close to ivory. Texture reads as fabric. The logic is purely additive: each contour follows the print path. Mina Wright documented the process with hand sketches, a ring cross-section diagram, and a physical maquette — the full arc from baroque collar reference to finished 3D printed lamp.

3D Printed Lamp Design Rooted in 16th-Century Ruff Collar Form

The ruff collar is a strange reference — theatrical, historically loaded. The project earns it. The ring-stacking structure isn't shorthand for the collar; it is the collar, re-expressed in the only medium that could build it at this frill density. This 3D printed lamp was produced with Wooj Design and is stocked by Urban Outfitters. The distance between studio prototype and owned object is short.

See the full project by Mina Wright on Behance.