RON ARAD’S LOLITA AND MISS HAZE

BOTH UNVEILED AT THE SWAROVSKI CRYSTAL PALACE IN MILAN, LOLITA (2004) AND MISS HAZE (2005) ARE TWO INTERACTIVE CHANDELIERS THAT EXPLOIT THE TECHNOLOGICAL POSSIBILITIES OF SWAROVSKI CRYSTAL

Arad designed the two Chandeliers around an ideal – making our messages and doodles worthy of lingering on for a while until we decide to change them. 

Lolita is a classic chandelier shape that consists of 2100 Swarovski crystals forming in an omni directional spiral. Each crystal has an embedded LED that acts as a pixel, enabling the crystals to display texts sent to it via mobile phone.

Miss Haze works in a similar way, this time reacting to a palm pilot: the suspended crystals form a landscape onto which one can draw both in positive – switching on a free hand line of crystals, and in negative – switching off a line of crystals while the rest remain on.

Combining experimental forms with advanced technology, Ron Arad is a central figure in contemporary design. By creating a chandelier that can be messaged from anywhere in the world Arad brings modern design into the era of the mobile phone generation.  With the help of engineering mastermind Waldemeyer he was able to turn these concepts into a reality.

Since the first show in Milan, Lolita has traveled the world and was shown in Tokyo, Osaka, Shanghai, Dubai, Istanbul, Munich, Paris, New York, Miami and London.

LOLITA

MISS HAZE