Hasta La Ideas

The crazy-looking Fluxus is a “wave of glass and light” resulting from the combined skills of Karim Rashid and arts Michela Vianello.

The press release doesn’t say whether it was a direct collaboration, but what we do know is that Rashid designed Knit (top two photos), the grid of glass elements the light fixture is composed of; Vianello then shaped it into the undulating form seen in the bottom two photos for installation in the White Gallery, a lifestyle store in Rome, and Italian manufacturer Andromeda International is calling the resultant product Fluxus.

Fluxus covers a surface area of 60 square meters, using 42,000 handmade glass Knit elements, in 5 colors; the lighting is provided by 5,000 punctiform micro lights distributed on the internal surface of the wave.

The unique fixture reportedly required two years of research and seven months of development, and we’re looking forward to seeing what other shapes designers and artists will bend the Knit into.

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