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LIGHTSTONES
Lighting designers Ingo Kalecinski and Tommaso Gimigliano presented their range of self-illumination jewellery, LightStones, at Light+Building in conjunction with Mike Stoane Lighting. LightStones, a new collection of self-illuminating pieces of jewellery, by London-based designers Ingo Kalecinski and Tommaso Gimigliano, both of dpa lighting consultants, is a symbiosis of engineering and hand crafting, each piece is naturally unique within a selected range of designs including rings, earrings and necklaces. The original concept for LightStones was conceived by the pair in response to a competition set by Mike Stoane Lighting (MSL) in 2015. Consequently they were invited by MSL to create a limited edition of 100 rings to mark the company’s return to Light+Building this year.
The line of designs includes gold plated, natural brass and silver aluminium finishes with a range of decorative toppings such as glass beads and crystals, hand carved acrylics, perforated metals and, in homage to lighting technology today, a range of selected optical lenses. Their first creations represent a metaphor for a wearable aura of light, able to instil wellbeing and define the boundaries of a personal micro-cosmos of warmth and comfort. Stylistically this exercise concentrates on enhancing the beautiful minimalism and complexity of the lenses used in the lighting industry to collimate
the light beam of the LED light sources. The lenses become gigantic precious stones mounted on an essential ring-like brass structure housing the battery and the light source as well. Together with these first pieces both playful and serious styles have been combined, together with different colours of light in order to evoke many different feelings associated with the perception of the light and its empathic and metaphysical allegories of the frame of mind of people wearing them. www.lightstones.uk www.mikestoanelighting.com