Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Herzog and de Meuron, Neri & Hu, MAD Architects and Elemental, the firm of Pritzker winner Alejandro Aravena, are among the star names who have collaborated with Italian lighting specialist Artemide for its latest collection.
Aravena’s team created two products for the range – an outdoor light called ‘O’ and an electronic ‘celestial LED sphere’ called ‘Huara’. Explaining the former, a motion-tracking disc-shaped light, the architect said: “This is an attempt to reconcile the needs of the natural and the urban environment.”
Among the other products were BIG’s flexible curves ‘Alphabet of Light System’, and MAD Architects’ ‘Pingtan’, which takes its shape from the studio’s design for an unbuilt island/museum hybrid of the same name. MAD founder Ma Yansong said: “Pingtan brings the experience of nature indoors, like an outdoor landscape entering a room.”
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