Interview with Yves Béhar

Salone del Mobile Milan / 2010

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Vincent van Duysen created a highly versatile glowing ‘beam’ encrusted with Swarovski crystals. The design could either be used on its own – suspended above a table for example or leant against the corner of a room, or joined together as modular elements to create dramatic architectural shapes. The elements came in three different widths – from 6cm to 16cm, and three different lengths, from 140cm to 220cm. The surface of each bar featured a ‘crust’ of randomly assorted, different sized crystals set into resin. Sandwiched between the crystal exteriors was a thin glass panel which gave the ‘beams’ their structure and rigidity while also acting as a vehicle for the LED lighting within.

Interview with Vincent van Duysen

Salone del Mobile Milan / 2010

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This installation was an interpretation of the crystals’ purest, most intrisic features: how they spark our imagination. The installation relied on the beauty of the crystals and had the magic of the Northern Lights.

Interview with Rogier van der Heide

Salone del Mobile Milan / 2010

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”I wanted to imagine a space with no gravity,” Gwenaël Nicolas comments on his project, which consisted of two separate designs. The first item was almost, “not an object anymore, where crystal and light become life.” Nicolas created large, free-floating, transparent balloons filled with helium, in which floated a small crystal sculptures lit by a battery powered LED inside. The balloons, which measured 2.4m in diameter, drew on NASA technology to enable them to be as thin and transparent as possible. The LED light emanating through the crystal within set off a series of ‘sparks’ which moved as the balloons and crystals gently floated through the room. A separate design consisted of a 10m long string of crystals incorporating LED lighting that was programmed to set off more ‘sparks’ which jumped along the length of the rope.

Interview with Gwenaël Nicolas

Salone del Mobile Milan / 2010

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For Swarovski Crystal Palace Tokujin created an installation, which consisted of a 1 metre diameter globe encrusted with 10,000 Swarovski crystals and lit from within by 600 LEDs. An accompanying piece featured another globe suspended in a vast tank of water, on which crystals grew naturally. The design was an evolution of Yoshioka’s 2008 work entitled “VENUS – Natural crystal chair” in which the chair – like Venus – emerged from the ‘water’ as the crystals naturally grew on its frame.

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Salone del Mobile Milan / 2010

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Date:
4/15/2010
Location:
Milan
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Yves Béhar combined the possibilities of technology with the inherent qualities of Swarovski crystal to create a beautiful yet surprisingly affordable lighting arrangement, which consisted of a series of deceptively simple ‘paper lanterns’ shaped like crystals, within which light was refracted from a real crystal, casting its patterns on the surface of the paper.

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