Let There Be Light: Salone Del Mobile 08

published Mar 15, 2008
Let There Be Light Salone Del Mobile 08
The concepts and the projects of light, elaborated by the students of SAIC, which Industreal propose in an exhibition to be shown at the Fabbrica del Vapore during the Salone del Mobile 2008, will be above all, an up-to-date reflection about the form of illumination.

Industreal has shared in this research convinced that light is made of the same material from which ideas are made and maybe it is not a coincidence that a flash of genius is often represented in drawings by a light bulb above a head.

However, to conceive and design light means thinking modestly in the same terms as in the original of all creativity, echoed in phrase from Genesis: 'let there be light' and there was light, light was good and light was separated from darkness.

Light steals things from the darkness taking them into the world of things illuminated which then exist in our eyes due to the virtue of the light itself.

Proposing a project of ideas for students, around the concept of light, we should reflect (another luminous terminology) on the potential either of direct light or reflected light.

Light is not necessarily electric light, light is fire or flame, ray or mirror, crystal or window, jewel or opening, lens or spark.

However, designing light signifies that we must concentrate on a concept simple and powerful, with a significance that appreciates flights of fantasy and poetic gestures.