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Sketches from an Antique Shop The Time of Light - Ingo Maurer New York - Grand Street - among the buildings on Manhattan, we are irresistibly attracted by the inviting shop windows and their luxuriously furnished fronts, a real show of designing light. The German designer Ingo Maurer, now a grey-haired gentleman, observes the world, nature and ordinary useful objects with great curiosity. With the highest technology he intelligently redecorates them into lights, reminiscent of sculptures, some with simple clean lines and a decorative accent, while the others represent almost fantastic forms. He plays with materials that have diverse characteristics, he amorphously rolls Japanese paper around the source of light, he treats porcelain with metals, adds glass, mirrors, he interlaces the vertical holders with electric wires, he observes birds in the sky and brings this feeling into an almost floating structure of a chandelier. He admires the sophistication of Japanese traditional design, so he wittily entitled his artistic products Ma Mo Nouchies, thus paying homage to the sculptor and designer Isamo Nouguchi of Japanese-American origin. The firmament brought forth the idea for the Ilios lamp, the chandelier obtained the name Birdie, the table lamp with the bulb made from hand-blown glass of the same form is simply called the Bulb while other names are almost childlike: Willy Dilly, Ya Ya, Ho Bob. Ingo Maurer has his own exhibition gallery, however his lights of inexhaustible imagination are desired by the elite of the design public as well as private ambiences. Karin Košak |
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