London designer Michael Anastassiades has designed a assortment of lamps using tubular bulbs and brass rods arranged in numerous configurations.
Produced for Milan-primarily based Nilufar Gallery, the One Well-Recognized Sequence range attributes eleven linear lights that pair handmade brass fittings with LED bulbs.
Each and every of the lights come in different configurations, chosen by Anastassiades for their “apparent effortlessness” and are crafted by a United kingdom machinist.
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The bulbs and the brass rods are of the same diameter, and have been arranged to appear as “parallel repetitions” of 1 another.
While some lights hang on perpendicular cords, other people are floor standing and sit on circular bases that residence a central brass stem, or rest as horizontal rods stacked on leading of 1 an additional.
Bulbs are both a single metre or .five metres prolonged, and are organized singly, in pairs, or in trios, alongside the brass fixtures.
“When setting out on a new style, the intentions are by no means evident,” said Anastassiades, who previously made lamps strung on fine cables for Italian lighting brand Flos.
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“But subconsciously, you end up creating one thing in which everything appears to be there for a cause. The proposed patterns are absolutely time and internet site particular,” he extra.
One Nicely-Acknowledged Sequence is Michael Anastassiades’ third lighting collection for Nilufar Gallery, and is getting exhibited in a former Camden garage from 12 to 17 October 2015. Anastassiades is set to convert the space into his studio above the next few months.
Over 100 years old, the painted-red concrete floor and blue walls from the space’s prior use as a garage have been purposefully left intact.
“I have invested above a 12 months seeking at feasible locations to move the studio to,” the designer advised Dezeen. “For the duration of that time I have seen more than 20 and it only took a few minutes to make a decision that they have been not suitable. I guess it is a feeling you get as soon as you experience the right room. It is instantaneous.”
The designer’s minimum aesthetic is evident all through his lighting collections, for which he has turn into very best-recognized. These contain the Mobile Chandelier series of illuminated globes held on delicate U-shaped metal supports and the Tip of the Tongue spherical lamp that seems to be like it is about to tip off the edge of its base.
Anastassiades launched his 1st furniture piece – an equally pared-back two-seater higher-backed sofa – at this year’s London Style Festival.
