Lamps
We love light. We love when light models space, changes rooms and puts us in beautiful moods. That's why we make unique lamps, often sustainably, from ready-made objects. Cheers!
Taken from Marcel Proust projected onto silk screens for an exhibition at the ORF in Linz, Austria. In the background - The Menilmontant table.
"ON" - The illuminated "Menilmontant" table. The essence of this object appears as soon as the light foils, as they are installed in monitors, are switched on. From this point on, they transform into light objects of remembrance of the Menilmontant district in Paris, which was destroyed by gentrification. A place right next to the Pere Lachaise cemetery, a place where Edith Piaf began her career, a place where numerous famous French films were shot. The legs of this table were found in the rubble of one of the demolished buildings and transformed by the light.
"OFF" - This is not (only) a table. The essence of this object appears as soon as the light foils, as they are installed in monitors, are switched on.
"Prost" lamp - Limited Edition. The lamp designed by Stephan Doesinger was selected by Ron Arad for the International Yearbook of Design in 1993 at the same time, when Droog design became popular. Stephan later worked in Ron´s studio.
"Prost" Ready-Made lamp
Text from the Int. Yearbook of Design: Stephan Doesinger The found object in lighting has a growing heritage. Ever since Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni used a fishing rod, bandsaw and car headlight to create the industrial-looking Toio uplighter for Flos in 1962, designers have been combing their workshops and backyards to find readymades to diffuse and direct light. Bottles have a long history as bases for first candles and then electric lamps, but this year the humble wine and milk bottle both enter The International Design Yearbook in their own right as luminaires. Stephan Doesinger’s Prost lighting system uses a standard double-litre Austrian wine bottle as a translucent lampshade with typography sand-blasted on to the glass. “The basic idea is to fill the bottle with light, not wine,” says Doesinger, “I wanted to use a banal product, a cheap, expendable object to cover the light, in order to transmit messages and quotations. The bottle is exchangeable; the quality of light is most important.” Doesinger, who has worked with Alessandro Mendini in Milan, created the Prost light installations for exhibitions in Linz and Vienna. In a similar exercise, Tejo Remy of Droog Design used milk bottles to create a dramatic light (see page 113).
"Mind-Lamp" designed by Stephan Doesinger / One Off / selected by Ron Arad
