London, United Kingdom
Taking inspiration from the shape of the cone, Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby have addressed the typology of lighting with a focus on a form that has appeared repeatedly throughout their work.
The project, developed for Galerie Kreo, is also expressive of the designers’ commitment to “working in the space between the sketch and the machine.”
The approach is characterized by an emphasis on experimentation and innovation and an exploratory attitude to materiality and color.
Here, in Signals, it is the shades of the lamps that are conical, mouth-blown by master artisans at the Venini workshops in Murano.
Comprising floor, wall, and pendant lamps, each fixture in the collection is the product of a series of dualities: two materials, two geometries, and two contrasting fabrication methods.
The body of each piece is constructed from hand-formed, colorful aluminum box sections.
From these restrained, orthogonal structures bloom large conical glass shades.
Mouth-blown in the Venini workshops of Murano in the Venetian lagoon, whose delicate, translucent color is subject to endless variation, according to the thickness of the glass.
Totemic pieces within the collection, the floor lamps are designed to be rotated and the positions of the individual cones adjusted.
In conjunction with the ability to dim or strengthen the intensity of the different light sources, the outcome is a luminous and responsive field of color that represents the studio’s visual energy and use of dynamic forms.
Signals is the first lighting collection developed by Barber and Osgerby for Kreo.
Project: Signals
Designers: Barber Osgerby
Lead Designers: Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby
Client: Galerie Kreo
