Design Storytelling

How flippin’ beautiful are these Syzygy lights by OS & OOS?

Thanks to @sight_unseen for highlighting them in their new Self Portrait column.

I love the solid sculptural forms and the incredible sensitivity to touch they have. I think Barbara Hepworth would have loved them.

“The amount of light emitted by the LED can be adjusted by turning either of the two foremost glass filters by hand. Rotating the filters left or right in nearly endless configurations allows users to change the light atmosphere with extreme subtlety; every millimeter turned gives a different effect.”

A Syzygy, they tell us, is a term in astronomy that means, “A straight line configuration of three celestial bodies in a gravitational system.”

More from the designers Oskar Peet and Sophie Mensen on Sight Unseen:

We were “looking at light or sunlight itself, and the discrepancy between the way most lamps operate and the fact that the transition between night and day isn’t an instantaneous flicking of a switch, but a wonderful graduation that takes time. The physical blocking of light, as the basis for our concept, gave us the ability to fade from light  to dark gradually, just like in nature.”

I’m excited to see more work from these brilliant Eindhoven graduates soon.

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