Mouette Pendelleuchte

red dot: best of the best
red dot award: product design 2005

Wings of harmony. Birds' wings do have something mystical. A possible explanation for this could be the image they convey - the desire to experience the vastness of the horizon. The Greek myth of Daedalus and Icarus - the escaping like a bird out of the Cretan labyrinth with wings made of wax and feathers - is a highly potent image of this desire for harmony with the elements. For the design, the model of a bird's wing is also interesting, since it is perfectly well constructed; unsurpassed in its proportions and mechanisms of action. The head of the Mouette pendant lamp is designed in the shape of a bird's wing. It is made of one single piece of polypropylene, manufactured in a rotary die-cast process. This kind of design optimises light emission; it is dispersed evenly and without shadows over the entire surface of the lamp head. The lamp, thus, casts a harmonic and flowing light. In the upper part, the lamp is designed with an opening that contains the source of light. This allows easy and unproblematic maintenance, an important feature considering that the Mouette lamp was conceived for the illumination of work and communal spaces. The lamp is used in all those spaces where an even, flowing light is in demand. The concept of the Mouette lamp features a symmetric as well as an asymmetric version, and by combining a number of units the lamp can create various lighting compositions and moods. The Mouette lamp adapts the exemplary model of a bird's wing to realise new innovative and aesthetic results in lighting and to illuminate spaces in a harmonious way - thus, the lamp certainly does expand the horizon of design.