Nao Iwamatsu?s Trio Glow in Appreciation of an Industrial Yesterday
Tokyo based design Nao Iwamatsu directs his nostalgic affinity for industrial shapes and materials into a futuristic trio of lighting pieces.
If we were tasked to pair a soundtrack to accompany Japanese industrial designer Nao Iwamatsu’s trio of lighting on display at SaloneSatellite during Milan Design Week 2023, we’d be inclined to choose this song sharing a similar name and theme in celebration of modernity and the emotional ties of nostalgia.
LOTUS
Based in Tokyo, Iwamatsu is inspired by the aesthetics of human-made objects, a fascination the designer attributes to his time working for a global information equipment manufacturer where industrial grade equipment, multifunctional machines, medical equipment, and other manufacturing machinery. The oft overlooked details of industrial beauty are apparent across all three of the loosely themed collection. LOTUS
The first of the three is LOTUS, a lighting solution linking the history of light from its most primitive and primal of sources, to its most modern LED-illuminated incarnation. The design is offered with a choice of two different bases and two different light sources, the options inviting a flexible arrangement where genuine flames and flickering LEDs are available in one form. Iwamatsu likens the resulting illumination to that of a beautiful landscape ? “like a lotus in a pond.”
FLIGHT
FLIGHT draws inspiration from the red blinking aviation lights stationed across Tokyo, evoking feeli...
If we were tasked to pair a soundtrack to accompany Japanese industrial designer Nao Iwamatsu’s trio of lighting on display at SaloneSatellite during Milan Design Week 2023, we’d be inclined to choose this song sharing a similar name and theme in celebration of modernity and the emotional ties of nostalgia.
LOTUS
Based in Tokyo, Iwamatsu is inspired by the aesthetics of human-made objects, a fascination the designer attributes to his time working for a global information equipment manufacturer where industrial grade equipment, multifunctional machines, medical equipment, and other manufacturing machinery. The oft overlooked details of industrial beauty are apparent across all three of the loosely themed collection. LOTUS
The first of the three is LOTUS, a lighting solution linking the history of light from its most primitive and primal of sources, to its most modern LED-illuminated incarnation. The design is offered with a choice of two different bases and two different light sources, the options inviting a flexible arrangement where genuine flames and flickering LEDs are available in one form. Iwamatsu likens the resulting illumination to that of a beautiful landscape ? “like a lotus in a pond.”
FLIGHT
FLIGHT draws inspiration from the red blinking aviation lights stationed across Tokyo, evoking feeli...
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