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  • Grotte

  • Hydro, Norway, 2024

    I wanted to create objects that defied the way classical extrusion profiles are designed, often looking very geometrical, technical, even rationalist (as if rationalism always had to look rationalist).
    My goal was to design a collection of table lamps in a very strict, industrial and efficient process: two profiles slide, one inside the other, to protect the eyes from the light sources. The innermost part hides the light. The outer profile holds the inner part straight while also displaying two open sides, like vertical corridors, which house LED lights. Both profiles slide seamlessly, despite their irregularities.
    Both profiles have a kind of shell relief which softly catches the light. The resulting object is something between the big toenail of a prehistoric caveman and the horns of a mysterious animal, which could in turn have been hunted by the caveman with the funny-looking toe nail (similar to those we see on many men on the beach).
    Both profiles come in different colour treatments: the inner one was left untreated so as to not change the colour emitted by the light sources. The outer profile was coloured to contrast the inner part.