エウロルーチェ 2015 – Antoni Arolaの照明器具デザイン
今年のエウロルーチェ2015へも出展している照明メーカー、VibiaやSanta & Cole。
これらバルセロナ発のブランドは、最近の照明見本市やインテリアデザインのイベントなどで話題となっています。
そのVibiaやSanta & Coleなどの製品を手掛けている、1960年生まれのスペイン人デザイナー、アントニ・アローラ, Antoni Arolaは、注目のデザイナーのひとりです。
アントニの新作”Flamingo”(Vibiaの2015年のコレクションから)は、その名の通り鳥が羽を広げたようなシェードが特徴的で、反射したり透過した光の美しさが目を奪う印象的な照明です。北欧の照明器具のような佇まいもあり、日本的な空間にも調和する品のあるペンダントに仕上げられています。
“Flamingo”, Design:Antoni Arola for Vibia,
image by Antoni Arola.
“Flamingo”, Design:Antoni Arola for Vibia,
image by Antoni Arola.
“Flamingo” lamp and designer, Antoni Arola.
image by Antoni Arola.
アントニ・アローラ, Antoni Arola
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Antoni Arola was born in Tarragona in 1960 and currently lives in Barcelona.
He studied at the Escuela Superior de Diseño Eina (Eina Higher School of Design and Art) in Barcelona, and in 1984 began his professional career at the Estudio Liévore y Pensi. He subsequently joined the company AD Associate Designers and in 1994 founded Estudi Arola.
He has undertaken artistic projects in a wide variety of fields, including lighting for Santa & Cole, Viabizzuno and Metalarte, pieces of furniture and perfume bottles, as well as interior design projects and exhibitions.
His professional career is divided between teaching, workshops, artistic experimentation and research into light. His continuous and unending search for beauty, inspired in ancestral cultures and his unique vision of light, lend him a singular versatility which filters through into every project.
His work has been shown in individual and collective exhibitions in Barcelona, Madrid, Milan, London, Mexico, New York and Tokyo, among other cities.
Arola has been awarded numerous prizes, including two Silver Delta Design Awards, in 1999, 2001 and 2012, the National Design Prize in 2003, and the 2009 I-plus Award (for best lighting).
*Texts from Antoni Arola’s website.
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