SAUGE BOUCAN PENDANY BY JURAJ STRAKA

Where the Boucan Hibiscus arrives in the full chromatic abundance of a tropical market in full sun, the SAUGE BOUCAN PENDANY BY JURAJ STRAKA speaks in a single language — and the effect is, if anything, more powerful for it. Everything is green. The deepest forest green at the heart of the composition. Teal and jade through the mid-register. Pale sage and cool mint at the edges where the botanical forms thin out. And throughout, the white botanical line work of the illustration itself, tracing the veins of leaves and the precise geometry of seed pods against the layered green mass behind them. One hundred and thirty centimetres of monochromatic botanical obsession, suspended on a dark cable above whatever room was fortunate enough to receive it.

Designed by Juraj Straka and manufactured in France, SAUGE BOUCAN PENDANY BY JURAJ STRAKA is a large flat disc pendant constructed from screen-printed solid laminate sheet — a material that achieves the richness of hand-rendered illustration at the scale and durability of industrial fabrication. The SAUGE BOUCAN PENDANY BY JURAJ STRAKA colourway brings a specific restraint to the same complex botanical vocabulary shared across the Boucan range: the same layered tropical flowers in various stages of bloom, the same broad oversized leaves, the same half-glimpsed birds, the same dense compositional logic that rewards looking closely long after the first impression has settled. But in a restricted green palette, the illustration reads as something the full-colour version cannot — a natural history print, a botanical archive, a piece of graphic art that happens also to be a lamp.

The exterior of the disc is finished in deep forest green — an intentional tonal relationship with the interior palette that means SAUGE BOUCAN PENDANY BY JURAJ STRAKA reads as considered from every angle, not just from below. The exposed Edison filament bulb at the centre adds a warm, amber pendant light art sculpture that plays against the cool green tones of the print with a relationship that changes character as the room darkens — during the day, the green composition dominates; in the evening, the warm filament glow picks out the lighter sage tones and shifts the whole reading of the piece toward something softer and more intimate. The bulb is included.

SAUGE BOUCAN PENDANY BY JURAJ STRAKA belongs in interiors home decoration that already have green as a considered element — a living room with botanical wallpaper, a kitchen with deep green cabinetry, a dining room where the table is set with linen and the brief was specifically to avoid the expected. It also belongs, paradoxically, in rooms built around warm neutrals where a single controlled chromatic statement was always what was missing. Green is the colour of nature. SAUGE BOUCAN PENDANY BY JURAJ STRAKA is what nature looks like when it has been meticulously organised.

Made in France. Designed in every shade of green that matters.

Specifications

• Diameter: Ø 130 cm (51.2″)
• Exterior Finish: Deep Forest Green (Vert Profond)
• Interior Finish: Monochromatic screen-printed botanical Sauge composition — deep forest green, teal, jade, sage mint, white line work
• Material: Screen-printed solid laminate sheet (Feuille de stratifié massif)
• Light Source: Exposed Edison filament bulb — included
• Suspension: Dark textile cable
• Use: Indoor