Mondrian Lighting by Monica Pinto de Almeida is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Silver A' Design Award in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Competition Category.
SilverLighting· 2021
Mondrian Lighting
Client: Mónica Pinto de Almeida
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Lighting Category
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About Mondrian Lighting
The suspension lamp Mondrian reaches emotions through colors, volumes, and shapes. The name leads to its inspiration, the painter Mondrian. It's a suspension lamp with a rectangular shape in a horizontal axis built up by several layers of colored acrylic. The lamp has four different views taking advantage of the interaction and harmony created by the six colors used for this composition, where the shape gets interrupted by a white line and a yellow layer. Mondrian emits light both upwards and downwards creating diffused, non-invasive lighting, adjusted by a dimmable wireless remote.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Mondrian Lighting is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Mondrian Lighting is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Mondrian Lighting is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
Where to Get It
Custom Artistic Lighting Design & Creation
We create exceptional lighting pieces that blend fine art with innovative design. Our award-winning studio specializes in custom suspension lamps and lighting fixtures that transform spaces through color, emotion, and architectural poetry. Each piece is thoughtfully designed in our Lisbon studio and sustainably manufactured in Portugal.
Commission DesignInterviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The main inspiration was the painter Mondrian and his work. The use of solid colors and the tension and harmony created among them. To create a beautiful object is always the ultimate goal, something that can make our days and experiences better.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
My main focus was to not compromise my inspiration with market tendences but yes follow very straightly my vision for this piece. I always try to achieve a design that speaks my truth and that can reach the emotions of the spectator and user.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I expect that this award-winning design will led me to open new markets as well as to evolve my brand Mokki all over the world, allowing me as well to continue developing new designs and skills.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The suspension lamp Mondrian, has a rectangular shape in a horizontal axis built up by several layers of colored acrylic and it is hung from steel cables which are adjustable in height. This lamp has a different view on its four sides taking advantage of the interaction and harmony created by the six colors used for this composition, where the format gets interrupted by a vertical white line and a yellow layer. The light is diffused upwards and downwards, dimmable LED by a wireless control.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Acrylic
Acrylic colors: orange, black, white, yellow, green, dark pink
Stainless steel cables adjustable in height.
Light source included LED
Dimmable Wireless Remote Control
230V, 75W, 2700 K, IP20, CRI> 80
4000 lm downwards
1300 lm upwards
Total Flux: 5300 lm
Dimensions
Height: 120mm
Width: 1320mm
Depth:120mm - Tags
- Mondrian, suspension lamp, colored lamps, acrylic lamps, design lamps, lighting, portuguese designer, lighting design, colors, made in Portugal
- Production Technology
- In the creative and production process I began with hand sketches to get a better understanding of the piece. After that the 3D process started as well as the study of all the technical aspects in terms of lighting features and materials, then together with the manufacturer I started to build the first prototype. The lamp is made in several coloured acrylic, with stainless steel cables for its suspension. Mondrian has light both upwards and downwards creating diffused, non-invasive lighting.
- Design Challenge
- The main creative challenge for this lamp was definitely to achieve the balance of colors in order to create a piece with a reduction of forms and pure lines, where the shapes, lines and colors were able to coexist in pure balance and reenforce their harmony.
- Research
- This lamp came from an idea hidden for a long time in my subconscious. When I translated it on paper, I wanted it not only to be a source of light, but also enable it to transmit something more, express emotions through colors, volumes, and shapes. Due to my painting and artistic studies background I got the inspiration mainly on colors and Art. My research was based on the influence of colors towards the human beings, their use on different cultures and how the art movements got shaped and represented by color. I was inspired by Mondrian, and the movement of Neo-plasticism.
- Inspiration
- This lamp came from an idea hidden for a long time in my subconscious. When I translated it on paper, I wanted it not only to be a source of light, but also enable it to transmit something more. Mondrian lamp combines the concept of modernity with the specific aesthetics of the 20th century. The name leads us to its inspiration, the painter Mondrian, and the movement of Neo-plasticism, with the search for clean elements, reduction of forms and pure lines.
- Project Duration
- The project began in February 2019 with research and inspiration. This was followed by designs, sketches and the first prototype. The adjustments and the production of the first piece was finished in December 2019.
- Operation Flow
- The Mondrian, suspension lamp can be easily adapted in height trough the stainless-steel cables, accordingly to the needs of the user and the space chosen to its installation. It supports, as well, a wireless remote control to adjust the intensity of the desired light. The lamp brings an imminent colorful element to the space and a dynamic flow with its different four views and colors.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Ricardo Vieira, 2019.
Image #2: Photographer Ricardo Vieira, 2019.
Image #3: Photographer Ricardo Vieira, 2019.
Image #4: Photographer Ricardo Vieira, 2019.
Image #5: Photographer Ricardo Vieira, 2019.
Video credits: Art direction and Editing: Mónica Pinto, 2021
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