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Wojtek Olech is a designer and maker based in Toruń, Poland, working under his own label, Balance Lamp – a practice nearly ten years old.
Trained as a photographer, he thinks in image, shadow, and light. He rarely sketches. Ideas take shape fully in his head, refined in form and proportion, in how light will break across a surface, long before they reach 3D software.
Every piece is made by hand, on manual machines, in a process closer to traditional craft than industrial production. Visual references come mainly from modernism's discipline and clarity, architecture and sculpture – occasionally interrupted by Memphis Group's color and humor.
Alongside his own collection, Wojtek regularly collaborates with individual clients and architects, designing one-off pieces from inspiration, spatial context, and material preferences, several of which have gone on to join his permanent collection. Light treated as sculpture, function never an afterthought – objects meant to be used, not just looked at.