The moon reflects light from the sun and gently shines above us, and has been strongly associated with our feelings from ancient times.
Even though the moon is a distant existence, I once felt very close to it when I saw an old celestial model at a history museum.
The one that shines and the one that reflects , the relationship is similar to the one between a light bulb and its shade. The moon may be the most well-known indirect lighting known to humanity.
The form has been crafted using a traditional metal spinning technique, and has been painted with a highly reflective white paint on the inside, and a non-reflective black paint on the outside.
When the object reflects light from the surrounding environment, the white paint appears bright to the eye, and the contrast with the black paint creates a visual similar to the moon at midnight.
The individual objects rotate in their own orbits, and the white and black surfaces appear and disappear just like the waxing and waning of the moon.
This object is able to manipulate the light source differently depending on the user. It can be hung near your favorite floor lamp, or by the window to reflect sunlight.
It has the ability to familiarize with any type of surrounding, and at the same time it is a lighting equipment that doesn’ t have a light source of its own.
1.625 m/s2
2018 / Milan - ITALY
Salone del Mobile. Milano, Salone Satellite 2018
Concept, Design: Hiroto Yoshizoe
Development: Kenichi Ochiai, Atsushi Muramatsu, Kentaro Watanabe, Masataka Honma, Hisato Hidaka, Eiichiro Imamura, Kazuya Hashimoto, Tatsuhiko Uchida, Hisayoshi Kobayashi
Film Direction / Sound: Shunsuke Watanabe (IN/AWT)
Photography / Cinematography: Shunsuke Watanabe, Tolu Ando (IN/AWT)
Model: Hitomi Tejima
Special thanks: Ichiro Shiomi, Junya Maejima, Maho Takahashi, Minako Kasano, Nana Sakai, Hiroya Ohmichi, Hiroyasu Furusawa, Masahiro Morita, Yoko Masu, Yukiko Suzuki, Atsushi Ishibashi, Yuri Himuro, Natsumi Minato