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At MNKY HSE Dover Street, the name was the starting point for this chandelier design: a Murano original smashed up by the cheeky residents. Many thanks to Farnham University for their help and the use of the UK’s best glass workshop! |
Detail of the smashed Chandelier
Boisbuchet ‘Moving Light’ 2016
Boisbuchet light installation
Our third Boisbuchet workshop took place in Boisbuchet in August 2016. Titled ‘Moving Light’ it focused on the creative use of the relatively new technology of digital addressable LEDs. Participants investigated their use in a variety of creative fields ranging from wearable tech over product design to interventions in architecture and large scale light installations. The students progressed very quickly from basic Arduino and electronics knowledge to fully working projects of impressive complexity and size. Amongst the presentations were a fashion project, table top products and atmospheric intervention in Boisbuchet’s famous Japanese house and no less than 3 large installations within the landscape surrounding the castle.
Boisbuchet workshop
Boisbuchet wearable project
Boisbuchet table top project
Boisbuchet table top project
Boisbuchet Japanese house intervention
Boisbuchet moving light experiment
Facet
Moritz Waldemeyerâs FACET bends the glass to its will. In all its beauty and variety, Â glass is essentially an amorphous material with no regular crystalline structure. Yet through a design vision and mastery in glass- making craft, Â the material can come to mimic its opposite, creating highly organized and consistent structures.
As if trying to systematize the chandelier-making tradition, Moritz took the geometrical shape of the Classic chandelier outline and turned it into a diamond-like hexagonal glass building block. On its own, with just single pendant, or in combination of multiple items into a large chande- lier, the FACET modules stand out as clear, disciplined and geometrical. The light source included inside every block allows the FACET system to be universal and almost unlimitedly extendable.
Kayoubi for Alcantara
Kayoubi – Fire day, seemed the perfect tittle for Waldemeyerâs latest collaboration,  an installation of animated lamps, with DAMN and Alcantara at IMM Cologne 2016.
Dominating the venue at Kunsthaus Rhenania Waldemeyer created a circular Zen space entirely of Alcantara. Imposing black on the outside with graduating circular punctures that give small glimpses and flashes of light.
Stepping through to the inner circle becomes a multi faceted experience with hanging lamps scattered throughout the metallic gold space. The lamps intelligently use the strength of the Alcantara and fall organically into natural shapes. Each of the lamps are programmed with light animations of bright reds and rich yellows that catch the gold foil on the outer of the lamps while also adding flickers of light play on the floor below.
Moritz chose the name âKayoubiâ for the tittle to honour Alcantaraâs Japanese heritage, and also the translation of âFire Dayâ fits perfectly with the mixture of gold Alcantara, Red and yellow light and also references the slightly kawaii influence of the lamps shape.
Kayoubi was presented alongside of works by Anton Alvarez, Formafantasma and Henrik Vibskov as part of âTouching Tales. The Alcantara Experienceâ at IMM Cologne 2016.
Thanks to the DAMN team for making the collaboration possible.
Bella Figura for Audi City Lab
Bella Figura for Audi
Bella Figura is a light installation inspired by the joy of spirited driving, celebrating the journey across some of the worldâs most exciting roads.
The installation traces through time like an Audi through a night time photograph. Visualising an elegant curve, Â it celebrates the moment of finding the perfect line during a late night drive. More than 200 elements are affixed to an elegantly rail system, tracing the journey of the light. Cool white and vibrant red LEDs are affixed front and back referencing the head and tails lights of the vehicle on its journey.
Inspired by long exposure photography, something Moritz has experimented with in the past, the installation is a three dimensional version of a long exposure photograph. The parallel tracks curve dynamically throughout the space of the Audi City Lab coming to a peak following a dramatic curve in the double height space above the Audi R8.
Bella Figura for Audi – top view
Blue Typhoon
Blue Typhoon for Paul & Shark
Teaming up with sports based apparel brand Paul & Shark Moritz Waldemeyer has created Blue Typhoon for their Brera, Milano showroom.
Displayed throughout the Salone del Mobile 2015, Blue typhoon combines the main theme that runs through Paul & Sharkâs collections, Water, and combines it with light to build a large scale light  sculpture.
Suspended from the skylight, Blue Typhoon cascades down through the central atrium of the showroom to the basement level. Constructed of stylised waves cut from clear perspex in a graduating cylindrical shape, lenticular material covers the strips of LEDâs distorting the light and causing dramatic yet beautiful water like effects.
Subtle animations running through the LEDâs give the installation the appearance of movement and fluidity throughout the installation.
placed over two floors the installation provided a multitude of viewing points, looking up and peering through the eye of the typhoon or viewing it from the side and seeing the individual shapes and sizes of the wave like pieces.
Blue Typhoon – close up
Blue Typhoon seen from above
Speed of Light for Fontana Arte
Speed of Light for FontanaArte
Speed of light is taking two light concepts from the past and moving them into the future via the gentle application of the latest in LED technology.
Animated light has been with mankind through most of our history in the form of fire and flames; the rise of static light sources is a very recent phenomenon. Here LED pixels are used to re-create animated flame like effects.
The design of the halo light, which makes up the speed of light installation, takes reference to classics from the 50s and 60s, a simple circular wall washing light made from a convex mirror. The halo of light around this lamp can be controlled to change in colour and shape, turning each lamp into a shape shifting, morphing pixel. A group of these lights working together creates beautiful mesmerising effects across a larger surface, revolutionising decorative lighting and its creative potential.
To introduce the halo light during the Milan Salone an interactive installation has been created that reacts to motion. Visitors moving in front of this wall can influence the gentle fluid animations that run across the group of halo lights. The installation uses computer vision and complex algorithms, however the technology remains in the background to create a charming and mesmerising experience to the visitors of the FontanaArte showroom.
Interactive mode
Officine Panerai
Close up of the Cog curtains for Officine Panerai
Commissioned by Officine Panerai Moritz Waldemeyer has created dynamic light pieces for a recent event in Hong Kong.
Referencing the most important and recognised hardware of a watch, the cog, Studio Waldemeyer have reimagined it into a series of centre pieces and feature curtains for the event.
Each table at the event was adorned by a spherical centre piece. The spheres are compiled of multiple laser cut cogs, fitted together in sequence to create the globe like shape.
A feature curtain was also produced for the entrance to the event. Cogs coated in iridescent film in varied sizes hang in two rows with a slight curvature. The varied sizes create a dramatic effect with the outer edges of the curtain holding smaller pieces with generous spacing and graduating to oversized pieces gathered in close proximity to each other.
Iridescent cogs
Close up of centre pieces
centre pieces by Moritz Waldemeyer for Officine Panerai
Centre Pieces on the table and the lighted floor strips
Ming
Inspired by ancient oriental vases, Moritz Waldemeyer has recreated the shape with a pair of interactive vases embedded with LEDs entitled Ming as part of his experimentation with parametric light structures.
The unique design uses parametric techniques which see the vases made up of flat steel pieces. Each vase is compromised of a complex geometry of steel pieces and custom circuit boards that intersect and link one another together.
Both vases in the Ming series are programmed with different animations on the interior LEDâs. One is animated with vibrant reds and oranges that depict flickering flames. The other, has bright blues and whites with a soft animation that depicts the gentle movements of water.
The choice of opposing elements further embraces the oriental inspiration with fire and water both being important elements and symbols in the Chinese culture.
Ming was shown for the first time at Elephant Paname for the Play of Brilliants exhibition in 2015 and later shown as part of Future Heritage at Decorex 2015 as a part of LDF.
Ming at Elephant Paname, Paris
Ming vase close up
Ming at Future Heritage 2015
