Life in Colour
Is it time to bathe in the colours of freedom?!
We are re-emerging and seeing light, with new ideas to customise a sanctuary at home.
The darkness has lifted and the colour is seeping in as we make our way outside again, just in time for the city’s balmy season of slow sun. Amidst the foray of change and outcomes we have endured, the impartial elements press on, delighting the senses in their cyclical way.
On this fringe of Spring and Summer, we tend to better notice nature painting the spectrum of light from pink dawn in the distance, to the sway of Marigolds close by. Now we can start enjoying our city again. Museums and galleries are opening their doors as a new wave of design emerges and neighbourhood businesses rebuild.
Togetherness sets the tone for memorable afternoons among the green of a grassy knoll or the red sun on the horizon by the bay. As each day ends, the home takes us back for deep blue nights with warm light. These deep blue nights fade to black, brushing the chance to make a sanctuary customised for play, rest and desire.
Tender intentions for mood aren't lost on us as we look to light in this time to guide us back to normality. Of normality this month we look back to 2010 when designer Karim Rashid made an eco-house for his exhibition at Milan Design Week and we reflect on a customisable design closer to home, that literally expresses colour.
The Egyptian industrial designer unveiled his exhibition “Smart-ologic Corian® Living” at Milan Design Week in 2010. The energy use was generated through photovoltaic energy in a collaboration of materials with DuPont. This solar energy illuminated the floor and the LED lights conducted a low output while the building fabrics were recycled material, forming a techno-organic house.
“I believe that the design of “Smart-ologic Corian® Living” is a metaphor for how technology, housing, furnishing, and space can work together to evoke an increased sense of experience, affect our psyche and bring us a better living, and also enable us to reduce the environmental imprint of our daily decisions and actions.” -- Karim Rashid
To read more about Karim Rashid check out the full article written by Architonic here.
Ora in Hebrew means ‘Light’ and specifically ‘Her light’. Of the same name, we have created an interactive wall lamp, set with dials to customise the amount of red, blue and green which are known as the primary colours of light.
It gives the chance for each user, whoever they are, wherever they are, the freedom to bring the colour of light in the space and as they want it to be. The material is a highly reflective substrate that reflects the viewer on the surface, allowing a moment of contemplation while setting the blended hue.
The disc shape is wall-mounted, adding to the symbolic representation of a cathedrals rosette while sitting like a painting, whereby the observer is the artist.
While colour theorists maintain colour affects mood, others believe it to be a perception of culture, a deep memory. The nature that we see outside isn’t too far from the acts of Ora in its ability to create all colours that we see in its image.
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