A desire to create poetic compositions led to designer Kasper Kjeldgaard's delicate-looking Suspense light, featured as part of our Dezeen x The Mindcraft Project 2021 collaboration.
One of 10 experimental Danish designs in The Mindcraft Project exhibition, the Suspense light consists of an LED light and a fine brass rod, bent in one spot.
The Suspense light consists of a delicately bent brass rod. Photo by Anders Sune Berg
"It's just a bend, but it's a good bend," said Kjeldgaard. "It creates a nice space around it."
The final component is an even finer length of stainless steel fibre, connecting the lamp to the ceiling so it appears to float in the air. It also wraps around a section of brass and extends straight down to the floor. Fine wire wraps around the rod and extends between the ceiling and the floor. Photo by Anders Sune Berg
By forming it into one continuous line from ceiling to ground, the design treats the lamp's cable as a sculptural opportunity.
Kjeldgaard said the form emerged organically out of his ongoing practice, in which he blurs the bounds between art and design.
"It's a result of many years of bending brass and putting lights on it and trying to create poetic compositions," said Kjeldgaard. "I didn't start with a direction. This lamp has been going for years inside my head."
Video is by Benjamin Lund.

Dezeen x The Mindcraft Project
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