Helik light

sophia

Hanging from the ceiling, this light offers a sensation of weightlessness and sensorial escapism. A suspended time, where the user can escape. The two circles draw a visual and graphic outline into space.

This light has been imagined in order to exploit the physical properties of the material: steel. By removing part of the substance along the metal tube, I got rid of its ‘spine’, its neutral fiber.

This tube which was heavy and rigid at first glance, becomes flexible and malleable to manipulation.

Recently graduated from Les Arts décoratifs de Paris, Sophia Taillet is a french designer based in Paris, France. My work leans towards a new contemplative vision and the more relaxing aspect of daily occurrences: conversations in limbo, the contemplation of a rotating light, patiently distracting oneself.

Inspired by elegance, thought and the eclectic field of Dutch playground architecture, I envisions a new spacial typology where emerges, from floor to ceiling, a new lexicon of…

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