100 LIGHT + TECH AQUA
BEAU & BIEN
Founded in 2005 by designer Sylvie Maréchal, Beau & Bien describes itself as a lighting sculptor and specialises in customised luminaires that again combine cutting-edge technology with traditional crafts. French artisan workshops create the designs using locally sourced materials including Limoges porcelain, mouth-blown glass, resin and bronze.
Both wall and ceiling-mounted, works can vary enormously in size, from modest residential forms through to dramatic centrepieces for commercial, retail and leisure environments. A particular forte are large-scale suspension fittings that cascade down through large spaces. The studio’s deconstructed chandeliers feature endless motifs from clouds of birds and playing card suits (a casino) to stars, spheres and faux candles.
Aqua features relatively large-scale components, inspired, self-evidently, by water. Designed to evoke a cloud of bubbles and water droplets, each piece is made from Limoges porcelain, which creates a softly glowing, diffuse effect. The overall size, quantity and dimensions of the pieces, the composition and arrangement, as well as the finishes and length of cables, can all be project specific.
beauetbien.com
BEFORE THE FANTASTIC REYNOLD RODRIGUEZ
LINEAR TUBES AND SHAPE SYSTEM LUMO TUBO AND LUMO LAMP
Polish sister companies Lumo Tubo and Lumo Lamp have a whole toy box of illuminated linear tubes and geometric shapes which, when combined, allow for a virtually infinite range of creative possibilities.
The patented Lumo Tubo system can be used inside and out, to delineate the lines of a space, as a neon sign, or suspended in a free-flowing form to create a striking sculpture. The system can be used with white light LEDs or with
DMX-controlled RGB LEDs which allows individual diodes to change colour and create lighting animations. Luma Lamp comprises a range of geometric shapes – Delta, Gamma, Trygon and Ypsilon Sytems – which can be used individually or combined to form limitless permutations and patterns on walls and ceilings, even curving over the 90-degree angle between the two planes.
lumotubo.eu/en/ |
lumolamp.eu/en/
Puerto Rican artist and designer Reynold Rodriguez creates both furniture and lighting, using wood and gypsum respectively, occasionally marrying the two. Tactile, organic, simple and often mixing the rough with the smooth, his handmade works are somehow cuddly and curious, with his lighting especially having an almost anthropomorphic quality. His work has been described as ‘dreamlike’, rooted in his fascination with impermanence and a belief that every work of art refers to transient moments or feelings. Rodriguez says his approach to design is a fusion of ‘majestic sculpture-ality and practical functionality’. ‘Visually and linguistically, I am always looking for the perfect way to describe something,’ he told Nuvo magazine. ‘Sometimes simple is best.’ His latest collection, realised over the past two years, is featured in his first solo show, Before the Fantastic, which runs at the Charles Burnand Gallery in London’s Fitzrovia until 13 January.
charlesburnand.com |
reynoldrodriguez.com
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