Inner Design, the self-named “design network for interior design lovers” has recently completed a successful competition called “Inner Light Out” which attracted more than 200 projects from designers and architects from all over Europe. The challenge for each entrant was to design “an artifact or light installation capable of illuminating and stimulating everyone’s inner talent”.
The judging panel felt all entrants displayed very high design and artistic standards with diverse interpretations of the inspiring value of light and its power to set creativity free in everyday life. Judging was based on both the functional and artistic value along with the element of innovation and surprise.
And the winners are…
Vito Cappellari, Padova, Italy
Leonardo Lamp
The light arm can be can raised or lowered thanks to a gearwheel mechanism reminiscent of the inventions of Leonardo da Vinci.
Emanuele Busato, Padova, Italy
The Clown lamp
The designer intended a play on function and irony with this minimalist design piece which is given a fun twist via the addition of a “red nose”.
Claudio Capelletti and Manuel Castellino, Milan, Italy
Light-9487
An old water hose has been reinvented, becoming a new, flexible, dynamic and elegant light source.
Laurent Chabrier, Bruxelles, Belgium
Miss Shellby
The intricate design of this polyamid pendant lamp virtually disappears when in darkness but creates a light ray bath when lit which extends over myriad surfaces.
Well Well Design, Paris France
Pop-Up, appliqué
A paper lamp structure which is cut and incised in such a way to produce a square, triangular or circular module when folded at a 90-degree angle. It is intended for the corner of a room with the lamp creating a luminous shape which interacts with a home’s architecture.
Dequidt Cedric, Paris, France
Lamp Leuer de Bois
A simple wooden board placed against a wall is turned into an enchanting light design with the grain of the material becoming a light modulating medium.
Alessandro Marelli, Como, Italy
Stringimi Iron
This design is a tribute to ordinary objects and intended as a metaphor to the concept of “union”. A working instrument with innate formal qualities has been deliberately decontextualised to form a domestic object.
Aoife Wullur, Eindhoven,The Netherlands
Shades of Light
This entry is a play on light, transparency and layers which explores new ways of interweaving electricity and fabric.
The winning projects will be exhibited on April 9th within the famous architectural setting of the Gruppo 24 Ore Headquarters, designed by Renzo Piano, in via Monterosa, Milan.
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