Platek presents In Curved Air by Gordon Guillaumier, the new 2024 product marking their new collaboration.
This is Gordon Guillaumier's first time working with Platek, undertaking a complete and complex outdoor lighting project that produced In Curved Air, a lamp extraordinary in both technique and materials, bringing light back to the centre of terraces, verandas, and porches.
A sleek and minimalist presence where the material emerges in the finishes and details. A design archetype with simple lines: an arch that cuts through the air defining a curved space. And the materials, the surfaces, animate the linear profile of an icon with textures and smoothness, enriching it with new sensations. This is In Curved Air, floor, post, and spike lamp.
Gordon Guillaumier says: 'In Curved Air is a project that originated from an immediate connection I had with Platek. The initial briefing on the type of lamp the company wanted to introduce was constantly characterised by a natural, professional, and human exchange with the entire internal team, almost like a start-up relationship.' He continued: 'It was a continuous reciprocal experimentation. My deep knowledge of outdoor furniture was brought into a realm unfamiliar to me – outdoor lighting. This led to a mutual influence. I was very positively struck by Platek's openness to enthusiastically welcome a project that deviated from the usual type of lamp, especially due to the use of unusual materials for them.'
Gordon Guillaumier chose materials dear to him for the design. As he explains: 'I found it very interesting to bring the materials I love – concrete and nautical rope – with a clear reference to the outside world, antithetical to each other, which are enhanced by the simplicity of the shape which is characterised by the richness of language.'
In Curved Air becomes an expression of iconographic simplicity of design, almost a mark traced in the air. Three equally simple elements – the base, the arched stem, the light source – serve as the starting point for a material elaboration.
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