Hasta La Ideas

A recent interior design collaboration by Marta Ayala Herrera and Cito Ballesta resulted in some of the more dynamic lighting I’ve seen so far this year. Working for the Casa Encendida creative space, the product designer/architect duo aimed to emphasize honesty and simplicity from the materials through their use. 

The entire resulting project is a lovely synthesis of modern and contemporary thinking. The lighting in particular uses industrial materials and colors to surprising effect. With parts as simple as fluorescent tubing and bent perforated sheet steel, Herrera made spatial arrangement an almost physical ingredient in how the lights feel in the space. Alone or interlocked together, the lights play along X, Y, and Z axes, keeping the simple shapes as interesting and dynamic as the space they’re meant to light.  

You can find more on the project and its odd modular furniture on Marta’s website.