Pastel-coloured upholstery foam is cut into geometric totems to form a series of floor lights, created by Barcelona designer Max Enrich to contrast with the organic architecture of Antoni Gaudi.
Simply called Totem, the collection encompassing five lamps was commissioned as a homage to Gaudi's Casa Batlló as the building remains closed to the public due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Totem collection was designed for Gaudi's Casa Batlló
"I was invited to create a project for these weird times, as the house is shut down," Enrich told Dezeen.
"I was considering a few ideas until I got there. The place is magnificent and its details and forms are imposing so I was considering projects that blend in with this space," he continued. "But I realised I was doing it wrong. It wasn't about competing with the house but rather about creating an opposite: non-integration."
The lights are sculpted from upholstery foam
Today a UNESCO World Heritage site, Casa Batlló is a multi-story apartment building in the heart of Barcelona that was remodelled by Gaudi ? one of Spain's most famous architects who designed the Sagrada Família church ? in 1906.
Its name, meaning house of bones, nods to the almost skeletal structure of the building's slender columns and sinuously sculpted stonework, with few straight lines found in the entire structure.
Enrich designed the lamps to contrast this space.
Their clean, geometric lines stand in contrast to the surrounding arc...