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ON SHOW / LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL
designjunction continued...
Escape LZF With a shape characterised by LZF as “the domino effect in lighting, a chain of self supporting squares falling into a ring of light”, Escape is a new piece by Irish designer Ray Power. The ‘domino pieces’ form a colourful circle, frozen in a state of perpetual, gravity-defying collapse. www.lzf-lamps.com
Bio Mass lights Jay Watson Design
Duo Olio Objects
Inspired by biomass heating systems that re‐use natural and urban residue to produce heat and electricity with less impact on the environment, Jay Watson developed the idea of using forest‐foraged ash branches. The patterns and texture of the bark are preserved and a hot white LED source added. www.jaywatsondesign.co.uk
The Duo series of furntiure pieces is created from a palette of copper and wood. “I want people like my friends and family to be able to afford designer pieces that are hand made locally,” says their creator Georgina Lewis, who first conceived of the range when on a week long trek across Tasmania. www.olioobjects.com
Around London...
STRING THEORY It took a single meeting, conducted in the back of a black cab as it hurtled across London, for Flos CEO Peiro Gandini and renowned designer Michael Anastassiades to agree on a collaboration. The vagaries of international travel had delayed and postponed their scheduled discussions so many times that the pair eventually agreed to talk on the move, as Gandini rushed to catch a flight. In many ways it is this ‘can do’ attitude, the willingness to do whatever it takes to achieve a plan, that has defined Anastassiades’s creative relationship with Flos, and together enabled them to realise his two lighting families: IC Lights and String Lights. The success of String Lights in particular relied on the Flos team’s ability to retain the piece’s design intention and achieve the technical precision required
to make them a success. The piece – which received its UK debut at Anastassiades’s London studio-cum-home during London Design Festival - uses black electric wire to set up a relationship with the architecture of a space, becoming part of the lines formed by the walls of a room. Stretched out along these lines are two different light source choices: one in the shape of an isosceles triangle, the other in the form of a sphere. A system of tensors give volume and three-dimensionality to the form outlined by the lightweight wires, while the two LED lamps emit a carefully selected, warm white light. www.michaelanastassiades.com www.flos.com
Clockwise from top left: Michael Anastassiades with String Light; String Light installed at Michael Anastassiades’s London home; the balancing spherical globe of IC Light.