Flame Designer: Bathsheba Grossman Price: US$879.00 The inspiration behind the Flame pendant lamp came from a sculpture, made from a slab of clay and cut into a cube. Four corners were twisted clockwise while the other four were twisted counter-clockwise. The Flame lamp is designed with this symmetry in mind, but on a much more intricate scale.

quin.mgx lamp series designed by bathsheba grossman for materialise. this design marks the culmination of a series of work that has spanned the designer's sculptural life. this light-sculpture expresses the unity between the four elements of the natural world and the spiritual wholeness of the universe; what the artist likes to refer to as : the quintrino.

QUIN.MGX by BATHSHEBA GROSSMAN Quin depicts the last and most mystical of the five Platonic solids, the twelve-sided dodecahedron. In his first four shapes Plato saw the elements that make up the material world, but in this fifth he saw the nature and wholeness of the entire universe, the spiritual quintessence. This mesmerizing light-sculpture is an embodiment of that unity: the Quintrino. Quin must be the most extraordinary and unbelievable light we have ever seen. Its light follows many swooping paths, leading from triangles to pentagons and back again. The geometric facets of the original solid dodecahedron are unloosened from each other and are free to rotate in space, opening out their boundaries into curves which fly past each other. This lets the turning surfaces override each other likes waves on water while keeping the sculpture open into space in all directions. It's a symmetry which is rarely seen in any man-made or natural object.