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Fragile Future Chandelier
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Fragile Future Chandelier
- Object:
Chandelier
- Place of origin:
Amsterdam (designed and made)
- Date:
2011 (designed and made)
- Artist/Maker:
Studio Drift (Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta) (designer)
- Materials and Techniques:
Phosphorus Bronze, electronics, LED's, real Dandelion seeds, plexiglass
- Credit Line:
Purchased with the support of Moët Hennessy as winner of the Pavilion Art & Design London Prize
- Museum number:
W.5-2011
- Gallery location:
On display in Values of Design, Design Society, Shekou, China
This chandelier was designed by the Dutch design-duo Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta of Studio Drift in 2010. The chandelier is part of Studio Drift’s Fragile Future series uniting nature (in the form of real dandelion clocks) and lighting technology.
The design conveys a symbolism and narrative of nature frozen in time, as the individual dandelion seeds have been hand-glued onto the chandelier’s LED light bulbs, making them unable to reach their life-renewing potential. The LED lights are connected to a metal framework which carries an electric current. This framework is then attached to an MDF box imitating concrete. It is a remarkable and contradictory assemblage of materials seemingly impossible yet accomplishing a poetic beauty through its creative use of materials and technique.