Bec Brittain

"what was a solid surface becomes translucent,
and the lights become a constellation of points.

images by David John

"Don't look into the sun
It's not for me or anyone
To steal the light out of the sky"
(dream attack, here)

Last week, Bec Brittain's latest work was up at the AD Home show. Glorious. Read a past interview with Bec Brittain on YHBHS here...

"Maxhedron is a study in material transformation through light and reflection. When Maxhedron is turned off, its mirrored surface gives it a mercurial quality, being at one present yet disappearing as it reflects its surroundings. The second phase of transformation occurs when Maxhedron is turned on -- what was a solid surface becomes translucent, and the lights become a constellation of points. Maxhedron contrasts rigid formal language with mutable material qualities for a very dynamic lighting piece."






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when a chair became a sculpture
became a chandelier.

"We are artists; we do things for no particular reason – no particular purpose. It’s like painting on a white canvas – you cover it with paint; there is no reason to explain why you want to cover it with paint, or why you use blue and yellow or other colors... But for us there is a reason and it’s always the same one: We want to create a work of art, of joy and beauty

-Interview with artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude (full interview here..)





These days ropes are everywhere in design. Hanging loose, or hanging tight. Restricting or holding us up! Lindsey Adelman's rope chandeliers bring me so much joy, they appear effortless. Especially if they were to hang above a Christo chair. I'm still disappointed I didn't get the chance to meet Christo when he was here in L.A. last year.


Tie me up! Tie me down!
Tie me down! Tie me around, oh my!



1. Christo,Packed Arm Chair, 1965/65

2. 2010 knotty bubles. Heavily inspired by Japanese packaging and maritime culture, Knotty Bubbles is a sculptural light made of hand-blown glass globes tied together with knotted rope. The hand- made nature of the Knotty Bubbles ensures that each is a unique piece. The Knotty Bubble Collection is designed by Lindsey Adelman in collaboration with studio Creative Director Bec Brittain, glass artist Michiko Sakano, and designer Kristin Barron. these are prodcued by Roll and Hill, a fantastic lighting resource.

go to Lindsey Adelman's studio here..
read a YHBHS interview with Bec Brittain here...




"If others want to accumulate money, that’s fine with us. Our aim is different and very specific: We only want to build art. For us, money is like manure. It is good only if you spread it around; only if it helps you do what you want to do."

- Jean Claude...




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Michael Anastassiades

"The first collection of pieces to be introduced follow two years of meticulous preparation. It combines fine detailing with honestly expressed materials reinforcing the elegant simplicity of the designs."











"For years Michael has produced his work in very limited quantities as editions of quality crafted pieces and small runs. In 2007 he set up a company to increase the availability of his objects. He traveled around the world and located small family run workshops to fabricate his pieces. The workshops were selected for their unique manufacturing skills and tradition in the use of materials.

The first collection of pieces to be introduced follow two years of meticulous preparation. It combines fine detailing with honestly expressed materials reinforcing the elegant simplicity of the designs. All the products are hand made in unlimited editions. The glass work is free blown, the stone work is hand carved, and the metal finishes are bespoke. Each piece, stamped with the designer's mark, is manufactured in accordance with the purity of his original vision. Michael Anastassiades' philosophy is to produce exceptionally designed objects of permanent value."

















images via Nilufar
20121 Milano,
32 via della Spiga




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the grid will always
remain the same,
my friends.

1970, 2010.





























the grid will always
remain the same,
my friends.

1970, 2010.


1. Osaka, 1970's Worlds Fair, also known as Expo 70. Switzerland's Pavillon. The theme of the Expo was "Progress and Harmony for Mankind."
2. Lonneke Gordijn & Ralph Nauta, Fragile Future Concrete Chandelier, 2010











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"The entry point is above, not below."
aka
"I'd like to, because I believe in life elsewhere."
(close encounters of the third kind)

Gino Sarfatti, via wright auctions......

Now, there are all kinds of ideas that would be fun to believe in: mental telepathy, time travel, immortality, even Santa Claus. Now I know it's no fun to go home and say: "Guess what happened! I was in a shopping center. There was this tremendously bright light, and I rushed outside, and it was an airplane..

Excuse me, sir. I didn't want to see this.

I sure wish I had. You know, for fifteen years I've been looking for these damn silly lights in the night sky. I've never found any. I'd like to, because I believe in life elsewhere.

(taken from the film, here.)

Rich, Brilliant, and Willing.
the excel chandelier, perfection!

Stilnovo, via wright auctions.

I sure wish I had. You know, for fifteen years I've been looking for these damn silly lights in the night sky. I've never found any. I'd like to, because I believe in life elsewhere.

(dialogue taken from the film, here.)





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"The entry point is above, not below."
aka
"I'd like to, because I believe in life elsewhere."
(close encounters of the third kind)






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when light becomes a room

James Turrell

The Wolfsburg Project
Bridget's Bardo

"Light is probably the most basic,
the most elementary thing in existence."











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L I G H T I N G

outer
space
and
semen.




























outer
space
and
semen.



1. Spencer Finch. Outer Space (25 Brightest Stars) 2008 Dimensions Variable, Custom Fluorescent fixtures, Tubes, Filters, Bulbs. 25 Fluorescent tubes and fixtures representing the temperature spectrum of the 25 brightest stars in the night sky.

2. Roger Hiorns. Untitled, 2006, Semen, lighting

"Spencer Finch carefully records the invisible world, while simultaneously striving to understand what might lie beyond it. Whether he is relying on his own powers of observation or using a colorimeter, a device that reads the average color and temperature of light, the artist employs a scientific method to achieve poetic ends. . . .

Contrary to what one might expect, Finch's efforts toward accuracy- the precise measurements he takes under different conditions and at different times of day- resist, in the end, a definitive result or single empirical truth about his subject. Instead, his dogged method reinforces the fleeting, temporal nature of the observed world, illustrating his own version of a theory of relativity. In Finch's universe if you wait a few hours, the sun may very well change a leaden hue into gold. Like the ancient practitioners of the hermetic arts, who saw changes as the most fundamental truth of the universe, the artist doesn't always provide an answer in his investigations. For Finch art can do more; it can "ignite our capacity for wonder."

taken from here..

about Roger Hiorns

"This often difficult relationship between objects, their materials and industrial, man-made and natural processes and substances runs throughout Hiorns’s work, with past sculptures including detergent-filled ceramics slowly pumping out columns of white foam. He’s also made sculptures using perfume and his own semen. For his next trick, Hiorns will be combining huge ceramic filters used in air conditioners with biological matter from calves’ brains. ‘All these works relate in some way to hygiene and obsessive-compulsiveness and a fear of losing control of one’s personal structures – such as in the brain disease CJD,’ Hiorns explains, ‘so while they’re sculptural objects, they’re also an extension of psychological thought."

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Shanda- Leers.

the sunday edition:
shanda- leers.

the star, the automatic.
a lamp for the mary chain.

the sunday edition.
shanda-leers.



1. studio job, more please! studio job is on fire.
2. stilnovo, 1960's. yes!
3. kevin and greg's home, via here. hollywood forever.









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