Designer Éléonore Delisse’s Day & Night lamps are not just decorative objects, but functional designs that encourage wellbeing. The lamp’s design consists of a mounted, rotating dichroic glass plate that produces projected color patterns intended to affect mood and energy levels: the uplifting AM lamp starts early and projects a color range starting with deep blue that slowly fades and eventually settles at turquoise, the PM model is to be started in the evening for a calming effect with warm yellow and amber, closing with a deep red. Typically, fixtures designed to combat SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) focus on irradiance of light, instead, Day & Night employ the theory of controlled color rhythm to restore a healthy mental state.

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Photos: Laurids Gallée

At this year’s Salone del Mobile in Milan, Dutch designer Arnout Meijer presented his Every Cone, Every Torus, and Every Cylinder collection of lamps.

These lamps encapsulate a light shape that changes depending on your position; light vectors are refracted by the specialized acrylic shade, and rendered in relation to your eye. Where a traditional hologram reproduces a physical object as a virtual duplicate, this hybrid between the actual and virtual makes for the projection of intangible shapes.

“I focus on light because I think it is intriguing that light relates to both science and art. On one hand light is very pragmatic and fundamental in our daily lives, on the other hand, light has a very strong seductive power. My fascination for optical physics and digital technology is mostly the starting point for creating my works. I believe that the manipulation of optics can cause an abstruse and therefore surprising effect on the spectator. The outcomes are not only light fixtures, but sculptures and installations as well.” – Arnout Meijer.

More at: Arnout Meijer Studio
Photos: Pim Top