ARK COLLECTION


3D PRINTED AND HAND SHAPED IN COPENHAGEN


Launched during Salone del Mobile, where it won first prize at SaloneSatellite, the collection takes its name from the Danish word for sheet, referring to our process of 3D printing flat sheets and shaping them by hand.


What distinguishes Ark is how it captures a specific moment in time. The material remains fluid when warm, allowing us to shape it by hand. As it cools, it sets. The gestures are preserved. What was fluid becomes fixed. In an interplay between motion and stilness.

Previously discarded oysters, mussels, and scallops are collected from the food industry and blended with a biopolymer for 3D printing. It's the seashells themselves that give our lighting designs their natural pigmentation and unique light-diffusion.

Previous Exhibitions


  • Formed by Stefannia Russo (BR) and Søren Betak (DK), RUSSO BETAK 3D prints biomaterials sourced from waste into lighting.

  • Using our self-built robotic system, our work emerges from the digital precision of 3D printing and the material intuition of biomaterials.

  • Our process involves 3D printing flat and sculpting the forms by hand, letting the biomaterial inform how each piece comes together.