INGO MAURER by Pandora Taylor Winged bulbs strung on tangled copper wire… explosive comic strip chandeliers… cracked crockery bursting with light… coloured butterflies dancing around an oversized lamp… floating, electronically lit candles…. Welcome to the wild and wonderful world of Ingo Maurer, lighting designer like no other. Maurer and his imaginative team have been inventing exceptionally creative lighting solutions from his Munich workshop since the 1960s. Maurer admits he is fascinated by the ‘magical and mystical’ qualities of light, and using that brief to underpin their work, his designers deftly transform the practical elements needed to build basic lighting structures into fantastical showpieces that play coquettishly with light and shadow. The Ingo Maurer studio is heavily influenced by both nature and popular culture, whether using real goose feathers in the Lucellino Tisch & Birdie lights; scattered ad pages of an Italian lifestyle magazine in their 2011 Zettel’z Viva l’Italia! piece, or a can of Campbell’s tomato soup to create a hanging kitchen light tipping its hat to the Pop Art era (Canned Light, 2003). Porca Miseria!, in which white plates, mugs and saucers seem to have been caught mid-explosion, frozen mid-air, and then lit aflame, is particularly remarkable; the limited edition 1994 structure proves that breathing light into a room can be a much more magical affair than just screwing a 100 watt bulb into the ceiling.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 16:15:36 +0000
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