Eugeni Quitllet‘s K Ray lamp is like an organic UFO, a network of veins hollowed out of material which result in an object suspended in a frame. The illusion lies in its mysterious energy source with appears to derive power out of thin air.
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Maison&Object 2014: perforated 3D-printed shades diffuse the glow from lamps in this collection by Italian designer Alessandro Zambelli.
Each lamp in the Afillia range features a laser-sintered nylon shade created by Italian 3D-printing company .exnovo. Alessandro Zambelli designed a set of three shades punctured with patterns of small holes, which follow mathematical patterns found in nature.
“The shade reveals a web of essential geometric configurations, capable of capturing the light and concentrating it in a spherical, compact and luminescent aura,” said the designer. The diffuser shapes include a sphere and two narrower squashed forms, one with a flatter end than the other.
Swiss pine is used for the base of the table lamps and the bulb socket in the pendants. All have green cords to connect them to the power supply. The designs were exhibited at this year’s Maison&Objet trade fair outside Paris, which finished yesterday.
Showcased amongst the pipes in a former pump house in Eindhoven, Bergmans exhibited two groups of objects as part of her VAPOR collection, which she created by heating and rapidly inflating PVC plastic.
Swaying, ethereal shapes were hung in the main room, which Bergmans made by blowing air into the plastic until it stretched into an extremely thin, translucent tube at one end.
“The material is solid and somehow it fades away almost into nothingness,” she explains. “It dissolves like a gas. It’s very thin plastic at the ends, but on the top it’s quite solid.”
A second installation in the basement of the pump house consisted of a series of twisted, rippled pipes.
“The shapes are really organic, they grow like a plant or an animal,” she says. “That is something I really love, because I don’t like to design being very precise. I actually prefer that shapes grow into their natural environments.”
She continues: “So this plastic is actually grown. The only thing I decide is to add more or less air into it, or maybe add a few colours, or maybe add more material.”
Bergmans explains that the pieces she exhibited at Dutch Design Week were the result of many different experiments.
“I’m very free and experimental and I try to understand the boundaries [of a production process],” she explains. “I will make things with lots of air and it will explode, maybe. After lots of experiments I know the limits; I know the edges. And actually, the edges are most of the time the nicest.”
Pieke Bergmans. Copyright: Dezeen
We drove around Eindhoven in our MINI Cooper S Paceman. The music in the movie is a track called Family Music by Eindhoven-based hip hop producer Y’Skid.
Inspired by the iconic Russian wood doll Matryoshka, this playful lamp collection combines tradition and modernity in a unique way! A gentle, feminine aesthetic provides warmth and coziness to modern ambience. The minimalistic design can be used as a single light source or as a cluster to form a sculpturesque pendant. In oak, beech and porcelain models, there’s a finish for every style of room.
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The Herba lamp, designed for the Bertolucci brand, is actually 5 lights in 1, and takes inspiration from natural fiber geometries derived from biomimetic observation. Raw copper tubes are contrasted with matte white acrylic on which LED light is projected to create an evenly diffused glow perfect for reading or ambience.
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