Etirement light by Rémi Bouhaniche
More weird stuff. The intensity of the Etirement (Stretching) light, designed by Rémi Bouhaniche, a French design graduate, is controlled by pulling a rod which in turn distorts a translucent membrane stretched over a steel frame.
Read on to see what R√©mi, who’s part of a new French design collective, titled Collectif Mati√®re-A and an Ecole Sup√©rieure d‚ÄôArt et Design de Saint-Etienne graduate, has to say about his work.
“For this project called ‘Etirement’, I worked on a common gesture that everyone know: the tuning of the light intensity. I concentrated on the working of a very precise and detailed movement focused on one point. ‘Etirement’ creates a flowing and expressive body language, a poetic time from a daily basic action.”
“I first thought of a shape which goes beyond all category of design. ‘Etirement’ came upon the surface of a drawing paper as a mental picture. I wanted to paint an abstract landscape. From the drawing I concluded that the user creates the shape by manipulating the surface of the object. This lamp is a temporary form which moves and changes in function of the intensity of the light.”
“The intensity lowers down and rises up according to the distortion of a membrane. I have shaped it on the lines of a human body composed by a skin (fabric) tensed over a skeleton (metal structure). To obtain the visual and tactile effect I installed a mechanism hidden inside the black part.”
Etirement will be on display at the Les Ecoles de Design 2009 show at VIA France in Paris from 7 July to 23 August. [via]
Design: Rémi Bouhaniche (website under construction)
E-mail: remi.org@gmail.com
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