Bring the Glow of Fall Indoors With Graypants’ First-Ever Sitewide Sale

Whether it’s a pendant handcrafted from recycled cardboard or a candlestick for the modern era, Graypants’ designs are a rustic source of ambient light.

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The world outside changes rapidly in the autumn. The bright palette of the warmer months turns, in the blink of an eye, earthier, richer, and—by effect—more magical.

If you’re all about feeling fall indoors as much as outdoors, one of the easiest places to start is by adjusting your lighting to an autumnal ambience. Seattle- and Amsterdam-based design studio Graypants has a knack for creating togetherness and warmness through their fixtures that feel both traditional and new.

And now, Graypants is offering 15% off their entire collection with code FALL15 from October 18 to October 24. To commemorate the brand’s first-ever sitewide sale, we’ve rounded up our favorite pieces that help usher in the fall feels but are built with a lasting glow in mind. 

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Graypants Wick Black

Wick is designed with the belief that light is meant to be shared: it is the connecting tool that humanizes moments of our lives. Creating a place to gather, Wick is designed to be a companion, to join in adventures and create togetherness and ambiance every time. Wick is a call from our past to the future. It’s the opportunity to mindfully light the present. Combining the romance of a candle with the utility of a flashlight, Wick adapts to and fits a broad variety of contexts, from an intimate home to a bustling restaurant patio, to a warm office kitchen. Wick is perfect as a gift or for your own enjoyment.

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Graypants Wick Black Ambient Bundle

The Ambient Bundle is the perfect way to start illuminating your spaces. Wick is designed with the belief that light is meant to be shared: it is the connecting tool that humanizes moments of our lives. Creating a place to gather, Wick is designed to be a companion, to join in adventures, and create togetherness and ambiance every time. Wick is a call from our past to the future. It’s the opportunity to mindfully light the present. Combining the romance of a candle with the utility of a flashlight, Wick adapts to and fits a broad variety of contexts, from an intimate home to a bustling restaurant patio, to a warm office kitchen. Wick is perfect as a gift or for your own enjoyment.

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Graypants Wick White

Wick is designed with the belief that light is meant to be shared: it is the connecting tool that humanizes moments of our lives. Creating a place to gather, Wick is designed to be a companion, to join in adventures and create togetherness and ambiance every time. Wick is a call from our past to the future. It’s the opportunity to mindfully light the present. Combining the romance of a candle with the utility of a flashlight, Wick adapts to and fits a broad variety of contexts, from an intimate home to a bustling restaurant patio, to a warm office kitchen. Wick is perfect as a gift or for your own enjoyment.

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Graypants Nest Pendant

Handcrafted from recycled cardboard, Graypants flagship Scraplights provide warm, intimate, and functional lighting for any occasion or space. Tough and elegant, each is precision cut with a laser and assembled by hand using non-toxic adhesive, and all Scraplights are treated with a non-toxic fire retardant. Scraplights are constructed from natural recycled cardboard precision cut by a laser. This gives the edges their classic dark appearance and enhances the warm light projected through the corrugation. The classic series includes many of the best-selling models such as the Moon and Disc, along with newer designs like the Hive and NestThe Hive and Nest pendants are the only members of the Scraplights collection that feature angled layers. A custom inner ring allows the cord set and bulb to hang straight.

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Graypants Ohio Scraplight Pendant

Handmade with layers of recyclable cardboard, the Graypants Ohio Scraplight Pendant finds warmth in the raw material, forming a rustic source of ambient light. Part of the larger range of pendants, the Ohio is held in place with a steel frame, and also includes a sandblasted glass diffuser to shield and further soften the down light below. Founded in 2007 in Seattle, Washington, Graypants is the creative brainchild of architects Seth Grizzle and Jonathan Junker. Known for their acclaimed first line of pendant lights made entirely of repurposed cardboard, Graypants has matured into an industrial and product design studio with a diverse portfolio of lighting focused on responsible production. Each pendant is characterized by this philosophy of local and sustainable production, and the company has even branched out to the European market stationed in Amsterdam. Never losing sight of the fun in designing, Graypants is young, fresh and current, meeting the demands of today's need for sustainable design. Photo Courtesy of Lightology

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Graypants Hive Pendant

Handcrafted from recycled cardboard, Graypants flagship Scraplights provide warm, intimate, and functional lighting for any occasion or space. Tough and elegant, each is precision cut with a laser and assembled by hand using non-toxic adhesive, and all Scraplights are treated with a non-toxic fire retardant. Scraplights are constructed from natural recycled cardboard precision cut by a laser. This gives the edges their classic dark appearance and enhances the warm light projected through the corrugation. The classic series includes many of the best-selling models such as the Moon and Disc, along with newer designs like the Hive and NestThe Hive and Nest pendants are the only members of the Scraplights collection that feature angled layers. A custom inner ring allows the cord set and bulb to hang straight.

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Graypants 45v Pendant Rust/Zinc

The Roest collection bends the norm with its unpretentious simplicity, in which the design has met no equal. Nature’s reaction between iron, oxygen, water, and time. Designed by VanJoost and hand-made in Holland, Roest presents natural colors in unusual settings.

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Graypants Drum Pendant

Handcrafted from recycled cardboard, Graypants flagship Scraplights provide warm, intimate, and functional lighting for any occasion or space. Tough and elegant, each is precision cut with a laser and assembled by hand using non-toxic adhesive, and all Scraplights are treated with a non-toxic fire retardant. Scraplights are constructed from natural recycled cardboard precision cut by a laser. This gives the edges their classic dark appearance and enhances the warm light projected through the corrugation. The classic series includes many of the best-selling models such as the Moon and Disc, along with newer designs like the Hive and Nest.

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Graypants Wick Brass

Wick is designed with the belief that light is meant to be shared: it is the connecting tool that humanizes moments of our lives. Creating a place to gather, Wick is designed to be a companion, to join in adventures and create togetherness and ambiance every time. Wick is a call from our past to the future. It’s the opportunity to mindfully light the present. Combining the romance of a candle with the utility of a flashlight, Wick adapts to and fits a broad variety of contexts, from an intimate home to a bustling restaurant patio, to a warm office kitchen. Wick is perfect as a gift or for your own enjoyment.

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Graypants Sconce10 Brass

Mimicking the phosphorescent envelope found around stars, Chrona lights create a luminous glow by combining spun brass and diffused acrylic.

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Graypants Dish10h Pendant Brass

Mimicking the phosphorescent envelope found around stars, Chrona lights create a luminous glow by combining spun brass and diffused acrylic. With a variety of configurations in both horizontal and vertical orientations, Dish pendants can be clustered together to make stunning constellations or individually hung to accentuate any space. Thin, yet robust, the pendants are available in diameters ranging from 6 to 17 inches (14-42cm).

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Graypants Dish10v Pendant Brass

Mimicking the phosphorescent envelope found around stars, Chrona lights create a luminous glow by combining spun brass and diffused acrylic. With a variety of configurations in both horizontal and vertical orientations, Dish pendants can be clustered together to make stunning constellations or individually hung to accentuate any space. Thin, yet robust, the pendants are available in diameters ranging from 6 to 17 inches (14-42cm).

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Graypants Allyn Pendant

Using custom-made entirely white corrugated cardboard, Scraplights White shades abstract and elevate the layered cardboard aesthetic that Graypants has been carefully evolving since their beginning. This radical departure from the traditional Scraplights line is precision cut by advanced machinery, assembled by hand using non-toxic adhesive, and treated with a non-toxic fire retardant coating. Just as our flagship line was inspired by available materials, our forms have always been inspired by the natural environment around us. The latest addition to the Scraplights collection takes forms from pebbles gathered at three beaches near Seattle, the cold and weathered home of our design studio.Each pebble shade is inscribed with the beach name and coordinates of the original stone that inspired it.

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Graypants Alki Pendant

Using custom-made entirely white corrugated cardboard, Scraplights White shades abstract and elevate the layered cardboard aesthetic that Graypants has been carefully evolving since their beginning. This radical departure from the traditional Scraplights line is precision cut by advanced machinery, assembled by hand using non-toxic adhesive, and treated with a non-toxic fire retardant coating. Just as our flagship line was inspired by available materials, our forms have always been inspired by the natural environment around us. The latest addition to the Scraplights collection takes forms from pebbles gathered at three beaches near Seattle, the cold and weathered home of our design studio.Each pebble shade is inscribed with the beach name and coordinates of the original stone that inspired it.

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Graypants Denny Pendant

Handcrafted from recycled cardboard, Graypants’ flagship Scraplights provide warm, intimate, and functional lighting for any occasion or space. Tough and elegant, each is precision cut with a laser and assembled by hand using non-toxic adhesive, and all Scraplights are treated with a non-toxic fire retardant. Just as our flagship line was inspired by available materials, our forms have always been inspired by the natural environment around us. The latest addition to the Scraplights collection takes forms from pebbles gathered at three beaches near Seattle, the cold and weathered home of our design studio. Each pebble shade is inscribed with the beach name and coordinates of the original stone that inspired it.

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Graypants Drop Pendant

Handcrafted from recycled cardboard, Graypants flagship Scraplights provide warm, intimate, and functional lighting for any occasion or space. Tough and elegant, each is precision cut with a laser and assembled by hand using non-toxic adhesive, and all Scraplights are treated with a non-toxic fire retardant.Scraplights are constructed from natural recycled cardboard precision cut by a laser. This gives the edges their classic dark appearance and enhances the warm light projected through the corrugation. The classic series includes many of the best-selling models such as the Moon and Disc, along with newer designs like the Hive and Nest.

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Graypants 150h Pendant

The Roest collection bends the norm with its unpretentious simplicity, in which the design has met no equal. Nature’s reaction between iron, oxygen, water and time. Designed by VanJoost and hand-made in Holland, Roest presents natural colors in unusual settings.

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Graypants P2 Pendant

Inspired by tried and true handcrafting techniques, the Kerflights series is precision built to accommodate any situation. Durable powder-coated steel wire frames provide a distinct shape and character for each lamp. The shades are crafted from FSC-certified high quality plywood with a unique kerf pattern cut into the panels allowing for intriguing patterns to be cast onto walls and table surfaces. The magic in the Kerflights series lies within the flexibility of the design. The shade panels are swappable and reversible, allowing for future possibilities over their long lives.

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Shop the sale* with code FALL15 at graypants.com

*U.S. and Canada only. Custom products not included.

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