Lewis Power's debut collection explores materials "owning" the objects
Industrial designer Lewis Power has won this year's rising star award at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, with a series of four objects born from an exploration of "material worth".
Comprising two lamps, a bowl and a vase, Power's debut Material Property collection was exhibited in the Greenhouse section of this year's Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, which is taking place from 4 to 8 February in the Swedish capital.
The collection began as an exploration into three key areas of manufacturing that Power terms as craft, off the industrial shelf (OTIS), and mainstream.
To create each of the pieces, the designer asked himself, "how can a material go beyond lending itself to a form but owning it entirely""
Each piece in the Material Property collection aims to let the medium "own" the object "Lewis presented a small collection of simple but powerful pieces that reveal a talent for sculptural form and a welcome restraint," said the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair Editors' Choice jury, chaired by Dezeen founder Marcus Fairs.
The panel also placed emphasis on the designer's interpretation of cast iron, a material usually associated with cooking vessels, deeming it "particularly inspiring".
The Cast Lamp celebrates the raw and uneven quality of cast iron
When exploring the manufacturing area of craft, Power chose to create a lamp from cast iron due to its age-old process that reaps rough and raw-textured results with...
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