Iron Lighting · 2024
Swirl Lamp Lighting
by Zeynep and Konstantinos Paradeisopoulos
- A' Design Award 2024 in Lighting
- CLIENT: Kazoo Design
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About Swirl Lamp Lighting
The Swirl pendant lamp, designed with the delicate shape of a meringue cookie in mind, adds character to various rooms in a home. It is particularly striking when arranged in clusters above a long table or as a solo piece above a coffee table. The lamp's symmetrical structure and flowing curves, reminiscent of piped icing from a pastry bag, bring a touch of Pop Art-inspired home decor to the space.
About the A' Design Award
Swirl Lamp Lighting is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Swirl Lamp Lighting is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Swirl Lamp Lighting is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
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- Unique Properties
- Inspired by the soft form and delicate curves of a Meringue cookie, the Swirl pendant lamp brings the fun character to any the space whether it’s hanging as a cluster of pendants over a dinner table or as a single bedside lamp. The lamp was designed and crafted in many different pop colors as well as two different shapes for matching and grouping.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The dimensions are 162mm x 123 mm
- Tags
- pendant lamp, lighting, contemporary, lighting design, product design, home decoration
- Production Technology
- The Merengue lamp stands out due to its intricate mold-making process. The mold requires both an inner casting as well as an outer casting to achieve its distinctive curvatures both inside and outside. The lamp's unique design also includes a white inner color that reflects true light emitted by its temperature accurately. Notably, the Merengue lamp has been released in various pop colors, but each have white inner coloring.
- Research
- The Swirl Lamp design has emerged during a design research/challenge to find foods that can be turned into practical home decorations. Many food scan data has been formed during this research, but The Meringue cookie's scan was selected since it had a great pattern. Through 3D scanning and careful remodeling, the unique meringue shape is transformed into a symmetric lamp, complemented by carefully chosen brass accessories that follow the lamp's curved form.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration behind the lamp's design stems from the Meringue cookie, with a process involving 3D scanning of edible items and translating them into practical design elements for everyday household decor. The lamp's symmetrical form and the curves that flow through contribute to its charm in enhancing living spaces with a touch of Pop Art inspired home decor.
- Project Duration
- The Lamp design started in late 2020 and was completed in 2021. The design appeared in Maison Francaise December 2022.
- Operation Flow
- The Swirl lamp's material allows for translucent properties that show through intricate details of the lamp's curves when illuminated, creating a surprising detail in visual display when the lamp is lit.
- Patents
- Patent number is 2021/004916
Patent Application Date is 15/04/2021
This lamp also has a CE certificate as of year 2023 - Image Credits
- Image #No 1: fizkes, Courtesy of Shutterstock, Inc. The photo integration was done by Kazoo Design Studio.
Image #No 2: Courtesy of Shutterstock, Inc. The photo integration was done by Kazoo Design Studio.
Image #No 4: Pinkystock, Courtesy of Shutterstock, Inc. The photo integration was done by Kazoo Design Studio.
