Dutch design studio Bloomming have designed a modular system where diamond-shaped components can be individually rotated to vary the amount of light allowed to penetrate.
Called Lightfacet, the product can be used as a room divider or window blind.
It is produced in the Netherlands and made of an injection-moulded, polycarbonate-ABS blend and stainless steel.
Its “smart click” modular construction means the divider or blind can be any size.
Photos by Bart Roos.
Here’s some further information from Bloomming:
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BLOOMMING
LIGHTFACET
Concept
Light Facet makes it possible to play with light and shadow. The diamond shapes can rotate separately and create beautiful patterns. Applicable as blinds or room divider.
Technique
Connected diamond shapes create crystalline stars, which can separate from each other be opened or closed. This abstract pattern allows you to play with the sun.
Material
Stainless Steel & injector moulded PCABS. _Produced in The Netherlands.
Dimensions
Because of its smart click-system, Light Facet is available in every desired size.
Design
Bloomming, Bas van Leeuwen & Mireille Meijs
Availability
This product is available from March 2009
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Posted by Brad Turner
June 9th, 2009 at 6:57 am
How pretty. Great divider sure but as blinds they don’t look worth the effort involved to “play with the sun”.
Even if you had a maid to do it for you, you would just feel like a cruel jerk.
June 9th, 2009 at 8:10 am
Genius…. Only just imagine how many of the winglets which I have to rotate to get a good loghts in… yet… wonderful… I wonder if it comes in another colors?
June 9th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Great design.. well, for these kinds of designs, I don’t think practicality is its main aim.. I see it as a sort of ‘lego’-like sensibility where you ‘play around’ with it and produce your very own personalised motif.. an object that inspires creativity.. Like the famed Kvadrat Clouds..
June 12th, 2009 at 7:47 am
Showercurtain for the overconfident.
Swiffer for people who only spill giant rotini.
The maid can use the Dyson on it to reasonable amusement unless you insist that it is a kinetic sculpture; then the poor fellow will have to make it into a tuning fork against much damping.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:16 am
I just love this, and like you mentioned it can used as a room divider, which is awesome for loft apartments and other open planned rooms, it gives the room a hole new look and feel.
Thanks for sharing this.