Hyperion Spotlight by Paul Heijnen
Eindhoven designer Paul Heijnen presented an articulated lamp like a huge wooden insect at Rossana Orlandi's Bagatti Valsecchi 2.0 exhibition in Milan (+ movie).
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Called Hyperion Spotlight, the piece is assembled from many components of CNC-cut oak. Joints allow it to be posed in various positions ranging from a low crouch to stretching up on tip-toes, as seen in the stop-motion animation by Niels Hoebers.
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"Hyperion is finding a way of putting the world around us together in a unconventional but stimulating way," says Paul Heijnen. "Instead of concealing and hiding a product’s constructional and mechanical functions, this three-legged spotlight celebrates them."
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The piece is the first in a series of installations at different scales and Heijnen hopes to create a six-metre-high one in steel to sit atop Piet Hein Eek's Eindhoven headquarters, in a former ceramic factory, for Dutch Design Week in October.
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"This is merely in the planning stage but I would like to put a super-strong laser inside it that beams over the city," says the designer. The project is named Hyperion after the Titan god of light, whose name means "watcher from above".
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Curator Rossana Orlandi presented the piece as part of her exhibition at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum in Milan, a 19th century family house converted into a museum to preserve its interiors and display the family's decorative arts collection. Other pieces on show included a solid marble chair by Tomáš Gabzdil Libertíny.
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Movie credits
Concept and set design by Paul Heijnen and Niels Hoebers
Hyperion by Paul Heijnen
Stop-motion animation by Niels Hoebers
Music and sound design by Fab Martini