Stale bread usually goes to waste, but one talented artist from Japan came up with a unique way to give it a second life. Yukiko Morita is the founder of Pampshade, a Japanese brand of unique lamps made from unsold stale bread collected from local bakeries.\n\n\n\n
Morita\u2019s love affair with bread started during her time as a student at the Kyoto City University of Arts when she used to work part-time at a local bakery. She often took the unsold bread home and even used it as decoration, and that\u2019s how the idea for Pampshade was born.\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis modest attempt at daily resistance changed when one evening I saw the light from the western sun illuminating a piece of bread whose white contents I had hollowed out and eaten. For a brief, inexpressible moment, it glowed beautifully within the darkened room,\u201d she explained on her official website.\n\n\n\n