Bec Brittain and John Hogan collaborate on limited-edition lighting
New York designers Bec Brittain and John Hogan have worked together to update her Aries lighting series with sculptural glass pieces, on show during this month's NYCxDesign festival.
Hogan ? a glassbower by trade ? has added spears, bubbles and bent bars to Brittain's Aries lighting system, producing three designs that are each available as a limited-edition run of 10.
Although Aries debuted last year, Brittain has worked on turning it from "a very expensive prototype" into a functioning system that was able to accommodate Hogan's glass designs.
"We spent the last year completely overhauling Aries as a system," she told Dezeen. "It has all this flexibility, and I knew there was room for someone to use it as the skeleton and play." The pair had wanted to collaborate for some time, but busy schedules had prohibited a full new project together. Therefore the opportunity to develop an existing design seemed more appropriate.
During the overhaul of Aries, Brittain had to take into account the weight of the glass pieces that Hogan intended to introduce.
"We had to develop new hardware to hold these glass pieces in parallel," she said. "The standard Aries is very celestially inspired. But the weight of his glass was so substantial that I could build forms like [those before], because they would break."
The result is a departure from her usual work in brass, instead opting for aluminium to act as the structure for the fixtures.
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