PROJECT 01 / LIGHT

Ongoing study

ZORA

An ongoing study in how light should behave.

ZORA / ONGOING STUDY

THREE STUDIES: PROTOTYPE, PROTOTYPE, CONCEPT

DESIGNED BY TAVINEE KLANAJIT

HORIZON / ZORA 03 · SUNSET → NIGHT

THE QUESTION

How should light behave in a room?

Pebbi, Momo and Horizon came out of the same question about how light should behave in a room.

THE BEHAVIOURS

06 CONDITIONS

Three objects, one light, studied in the conditions it has to survive.

  • ACROSS TIME

    HORIZON

    It moves a room from late afternoon into night without changing anything else in it.

  • IN DAYLIGHT

    MOMO

    In daylight the ribbed surface catches shadow and behaves like a ceramic object.

  • AT NIGHT

    MOMO

    At night the same surface carries the light out in soft lines.

  • SWITCHED OFF

    PEBBI

    It reads as an object before it reads as a lamp.

  • IN THE HAND

    PEBBI

    An object you want to touch before you switch it on.

  • IN A ROOM

    PEBBI

    Pebbi sits on the floor and lights a room from below. The stones are stacked, not fixed in a frame, so the light escapes where they meet.

Dimensions, materials and light specification to follow. Nothing here is a finished product.

STORY

A lighting collection developed in house: form, material, light and packaging.

One light, three objects, each for a different kind of room.

MAKING

IN PROGRESS

HORIZON / 01—05

Horizon is the current form in the collection, the fifth in a line of developments.

Horizon, development 01: a gold sunset over open sea.
HORIZON / 01
Horizon, development 02: a violet dusk over open sea.
HORIZON / 02
Horizon, development 03: the sun on the horizon under pink clouds.
HORIZON / 03
Horizon, development 04: a gold and violet sky over open sea.
HORIZON / 04
HORIZON / 05CURRENT FORM · 90 × 28 CM

Fifth development form.

THREE STUDIES

ONGOING STUDY

  • A person kneeling in a dark room, reaching towards the lit stones of Pebbi.

    LIGHT OBJECT / ZORA 01 · Prototype / Study

    PEBBI

    A light object for moments of pause.

    Pebbi sits on the floor and lights a room from below. The stones are stacked, not fixed in a frame, so the light escapes where they meet. It reads as an object before it reads as a lamp.

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  • Momo shown twice side by side: unlit in daylight, and glowing warm at night.

    TABLE LIGHT / ZORA 02 · Prototype / Study

    MOMO

    Small, round, quiet all day.

    Momo works twice. In daylight the ribbed surface catches shadow and behaves like a ceramic object. At night the same surface carries the light out in soft lines.

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  • Horizon, development 04: a gold and violet sky over open sea.

    LIGHT OBJECT / ZORA 03 · Concept / Study

    HORIZON

    A line of light held at eye level.

    Horizon is the current form in the collection, the fifth in a line of developments. It moves a room from late afternoon into night without changing anything else in it. Ninety centimetres wide, twenty eight high.

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OPEN

NOT BUILT

  • How should light behave when someone enters the room?
  • Should an object know the difference between afternoon and evening?
  • What would it take for light to follow a ritual rather than a switch?

Questions the collection has not answered yet. Nothing here is built.

MENSCHH

Fields · four distances