An Architect Illuminates a New Way to Experience Sound
Teno looks like no other wireless speaker, an intentionally cracked minimalist sculpture delivering light and sound.
The Teno by Lumio looks like no other wireless Bluetooth speaker you’ve ever seen. The 5-inch diameter object has the appearance of a cracked minimalist sculpture pieced back together using kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery using lacquer mixed with powdered gold. Its innards glow through the crack, an intentional detail demanding attention, curiosity, and eventually, touch.
Nature plays prominent in the development of Teno’s unique form in relation to its function as a wireless speaker.
“This project began with a walk in the forest,” explains former architect and Lumio founder, Max Gunawan, “I found myself surrounded by the sounds of nature, birds chirping and water streaming in the distance ? without seeing where they were coming from. It felt magical. I went home and got to work.”
Inspired by the aural sensations of forest bathing, Gunawan set to recreate the effect with a design purposely hiding the source of its sound, a resin half sphere cast finished in a textured sand exterior with an inner layer glowing radiantly (a warm 2700K temperature). Like finding an unusual rock on a hike or while beach-combing, the crack operates as a coded message: peek inside.
And what about the crack itself" “I found myself inspired by kintsugi, the Japanese art of piecing together broken parts ...
The Teno by Lumio looks like no other wireless Bluetooth speaker you’ve ever seen. The 5-inch diameter object has the appearance of a cracked minimalist sculpture pieced back together using kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery using lacquer mixed with powdered gold. Its innards glow through the crack, an intentional detail demanding attention, curiosity, and eventually, touch.
Nature plays prominent in the development of Teno’s unique form in relation to its function as a wireless speaker.
“This project began with a walk in the forest,” explains former architect and Lumio founder, Max Gunawan, “I found myself surrounded by the sounds of nature, birds chirping and water streaming in the distance ? without seeing where they were coming from. It felt magical. I went home and got to work.”
Inspired by the aural sensations of forest bathing, Gunawan set to recreate the effect with a design purposely hiding the source of its sound, a resin half sphere cast finished in a textured sand exterior with an inner layer glowing radiantly (a warm 2700K temperature). Like finding an unusual rock on a hike or while beach-combing, the crack operates as a coded message: peek inside.
And what about the crack itself" “I found myself inspired by kintsugi, the Japanese art of piecing together broken parts ...
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