The Andromeda Lamp by Ross Lovegrove
British designer Ross Lovegrove has created the Andromeda lamp for Yamagiwa.
From the designer:
Andromeda is an artificial structure for capturing artificial light.
Emerging from the concept of Netification; the reduction of physical mass through selective perforation across a pre defined form; the concept floats more as a diatomic sea creature in the free ocean of space. It floats in a state of apparent anti gravity, capturing its light within to graphically delineate a structural net as a soft external shadow of itself. The light that is emitted from its LED clusters is reflected back into itself via mirrors orientated to maximise their output and to freely distribute a very pure light. It becomes the source of ambient light within a room, vesting gentle forms like large roots onto adjacent surfaces to form extended relationships onto and into architectural dimensions.
The piece is moulded from a single material as a unified white Botanical, aquatic organism to softly implant a sense of nature into the spaces we inhabit.
Visit the Yamagiwa website – here. Visit Ross Lovegrove’s website – here.
Terry Glenn Phipps on 12 May 2009 at 8:23 am #
As is often the case with Ross Lovegrove the piece is spectacular and the description is straight out of the metaphysician’s handbook of kookie rhetoric for visual artists and designers. I have long thought he should stick to design (which he does spectacularly well) and talk less, or else design a really cool biomorphic gag for himself.
Terry Glenn Phipps
hippatrum on 16 Nov 2009 at 7:03 am #
I would love to se the house that this snuggles into… It is lovely, and would fit perfectly into my spaceship.