‘roly-poly’ modular lighting remembers soviet hungary days
Hungarian furnishings and industrial designer Annabella Hevesi has launched ‘Roly-Poly,’ a modular lighting collection of enameled lamps sporting a mixture of blue, white, and crimson. Customers can stack these spherical, shiny objects to create variations of a dangling gentle sculpture. They can be stored separate and function particular person desk/flooring lamps.
Courting again to historic Egypt, fireplace enamelling is the act of coating metals (copper, silver, or gold) with a richly coloured layer of powdered glass (i.e., tiny glass particles) by fusing it with warmth. The result’s a lustrous and vibrant end extensively used for jewlery and homeware merchandise.
Roly-Poly modular lighting | picture © Annabella Hevesi
The origin of Hevesi’s undertaking branches out into two sources. On the one hand, she was closely impressed by the conceptual artwork phenomenon generally known as ‘Architectural Enamel Artwork Camp’ — a collection of actions that burgeoned on the Bonyhád Enamel Manufacturing facility within the Sixties-70s. Summary painter Kamill Main launched the creative program earlier than Postwar and Modern artist Ferenc Lantos took over and was joined by Gyula Pauer, Tihamér Gyarmathy, and Oszkár Papp, amongst others. Collectively, the Hungarian artists started experimenting with enamel work to assemble totem-like out of doors constructions that usually included on a regular basis Soviet-era objects.
an enameled lamp collection | picture © Annabella Hevesi
Alternatively, as its identify suggests, the lighting collection remembers ‘the favored, metallic stamped roly-poly toy. It evokes the consolidating hungarian 70’s (the Kádár regime) and the Soviet-style previews of the tough and charming world of enamelled metallic kids’s toys without delay. In addition to this cultural sociological origin, the luminaire additionally creates parallels utilizing the formal gestures and elementary geometry of the toy,’ writes the designer.
creating completely different configurations | picture © Annabella Hevesi
standalone or stacked: customise your lighting design
The primary model of the ‘Roly-Poly’ modular lighting is the standing lamp which might tilt out of its vertical axis and relaxation on any flat floor because of an added weight hidden contained in the sphere. This makes it straightforward for the person to function and rotate the lamp in any course. In the meantime, the built-in gentle shines out of the funnel-looking head in a subtle method, making the general design appropriate for dimmed ambient lighting. ‘Uninterrupted wobbling can be supported by the truth that the facility twine will not be linked to the lamp from under however by the funnel,’ notes the designer.
When assembled, the ‘Roly-poly’ turns right into a pendant lamp evoking the out of doors, totem-like statues constructed through the Architectural Enamel Artwork Camp interval. Customers can stack two, 5, and even ten luminaires to intensify the pendant gentle’s sculptural look. ‘As the person lamp components nonetheless present oblique gentle, the multi-element, strung ‘totem poles’ additionally end in an more and more accentuated and spectacular play of sunshine, enhancing the plasticity and symbolism of the thing,‘ continues Hevesi.
The designer used warm-white LED gentle sources with adjustable brightness. The standing lamps could have an automatic adjusting function, whereas the stacked/suspended luminaires might be operated through a wall management swap. Moreover, all seen cable strings are weaved with a novel textile.
the design evokes the favored toy from the 70s in Hungary | picture © Artúr Ekler
reviving the fireplace enameling method
Hevesi labored with Hungarian producers and craftspeople to supply her designs on the Bonyhád Enamel Manufacturing facility, nonetheless working as a maker of enameled dishes and boards. First, metallic sheets have been spun to kind the essential construction: a set of two semi-spheres with a funnel on one finish. As soon as metallic spinning is full, the enameling course of begins, and every half will get coated with one coloration (by no means the identical). The present coloration mixtures are solely accessible as a blue, crimson, or white combine. The funnel, nonetheless, is stored white throughout all ‘Roly-Poly’ modules.
Reflecting on her method to revive this crafting method, the designer states: ‘Fireplace enameling is a recyclable floor therapy course of, making it a perfect resolution to exchange the extra widespread plastic-based powder coating. With the ‘Roly-poly’ enameled lamp household, we now have taken step one in rediscovering this know-how. Sooner or later, we’ll study the brand new potentialities and sustainable elements of enameling which additionally permits for higher selection within the floor therapy of the lamp.’
testing a suspended variation | picture © Artúr Ekler
