Lindsey Adelman presents "precarious and vulnerable" light at Design Miami/Basel - architecture and design

Lindsey Adelman presents "precarious and vulnerable" light at Design Miami/Basel



New York industrial designer Lindsey Adelman's latest light comprises a series of glass orbs that appear to dangle precariously together on a gridded metal frame.
Adelman launched the light at this year's edition of contemporary art fair Design Miami/Basel.
Called Paradise City, it features dozens of differently designed bulbs that are attached to thin rods and joinery. Each of the glass bulbs rests gently on small surface areas across the silvery gridwork.

Adelman says that the design is intended to look as if the glass fixtures could slip off the frame and shatter, appearning "not safe at all".
"There's something very wrong about it, and very beautiful about it at the same time," Adelman told Dezeen.
"It creates just a ton of visual tension, and looks like scaffolding or a leg brace."
To create this effect, Adelman has designed an almost-hidden structure based on a series of pins that pierce the bulbs and hold them in place.
The glass orbs that form Paradise City are a variety of shapes and designs, and are intended to provide contrast. Some feature long spikes to evoke sharpness.

"It's quite precarious and vulnerable, and fragile, but at the same time strong and voluptuous and sort of radiant," Adelman said. "It's like feminist aggression or something."
"It's also for me like an urchin ? it's self-protection," she continued.  "It expresses something also where you're hiding and your defences are up. Al...
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