Chandelier

source: highlike

Work: Chandelier is the result of a collaboration with The Lego Group, Future Lab Vision. It was presented at the exhibition The Tube for Salone del Mobile 2013, Milan. It is a light installation made of nearly 7000 transparent bricks, capturing and reflecting the dynamic lumiosity and colors of the day. LEGO is something that really takes you back in time, but somehow still allures you as an adult. Its essentiality is timeless because of its simple building principle and the human urge to create. How do you add new feelings to a brand as strong as LEGO? The approach was to change the notions of what LEGO is and to explore how the material can be challenged in terms of construction and tactility. It became a path of lightness, materiality, surface, transparency and flexibility. Material: 7000 LEGO Bricks.
Photographer: Gert Skærlund Andersen
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source: designboom
tobias tøstesen transcends the inherent playfulness of standard LEGO elements to explore their infinite potential as a module for lighting.
presented during milan design week 2013, the floor-to-ceiling chandelier uses the transparent bricks to offer a glance through the colorless lighting installation, preferring to use the curved form to capture the changing glow of the day, from distinctive cool chroma to exclusive hot hues. tøstesen makes the LEGO module more complex while still keeping a dialogue with the real world of architecture and design, where bricks, despite their ubiquity, persist to challenge human creativity and continually forge new paths. informed by the scarcity nordic light, the form is characterized by a subtle softness that differs from the contrasting light of the south. in the chandelier LEGO moves the dynamic luminosity of the day throughout its otherwise standardized shape.
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source: madeinschooldk
I’m on my 5. year of Industrial Design at Kolding School of Design doing my MA on sustainable kitchening.
I spent last year as trainee at Native Design in London and did exchange at Emily Carr in Vancouver where I had the chance to work with beautiful larch wood! Both places I met really good people.
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source: athenna

Coup de cœur pour le travail de Tobias Tostesen basé au Danemark, qui a imaginé un énorme chandelier composé de près de 8000 briques transparentes de Lego. Ayant lui-même construit pièce par pièce cette oeuvre d’art, cette création est à découvrir en images et détails dans la suite de l’article.
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source: inhabitat
Designer Tobias Tøstesen just unveiled a dazzling oversized chandelier made from 8,000 LEGO bricks at Milan Design Week! Tøstesen’s chandelier consists of three staggered cylinders that reflect light to create a glittering effect. Since it’s made entirely from LEGO window pieces, the chandelier has all the dazzle of crystal at a fraction of the cost.

Read more: Tobias Tøstesen Transforms 8,000 LEGO Windows into a Dazzling Chandelier! | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building