A drawing in space
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Ines Aldana on wire, rings, and why a lamp should look like a line.
Ines Aldana draws every piece in a single continuous line before it is ever modelled. If the line breaks, the lamp is wrong.
“I want the light to be the point of the pen.”
Her Meridian collection for Vesper — a wire globe, a floating oak ring, an articulated brass arm — is built from the fewest possible parts. Each one is made to order and signed on the canopy.
Shadows as part of the design
The Cage Globe was tuned for its shadow as much as its silhouette. Twenty-two wires cast a fine meridian pattern across the ceiling at night, turning the room itself into part of the fixture.
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