The title for this post is a bit misleading ... you may have been expecting a mash of a bunch of different random lights. Instead, you are getting one light in particular
named Random, plus a bit about one other fixture called (of course) Non Random.
Moooi is new to Gabriel Ross, but this fixture isn't new to anyone interested in lighting design. Random was a hit from its birth and partnership with the Dutch design house. It is featured constantly in interior design magazines, online publications, and if I've seen them in commercial applications around Victoria, BC, then I'm sure that there is a Random to found in every city. If you're local, check them out at
Prima Strada Pizzeria in Cook Street Village along with Marcel Wanders' (Moooi co-founder) Skygarden light fixture for Flos - but that's another post all together.
The Random light is named after the nature of its production process. A resin drained yarn is wrapped willy nilly around an inflated beach ball until it's nearly covered, leaving enough gaps for light to shine through, maintaining an airy and light presence. Also left unwrapped is an asymmetrically located small hole large enough for the bulb and chromed steel pendant to fit through. The beach ball is then deflated and voila... Random!
On a side note... or more appropriately... a "random" thought... I love that the name for the design is an adjective. It's like an excuse to play naughty with grammar, and that is just good fun... oh what the heck... it's funner.
Six years after Random's inception, Bertjan Pot came up with the Jeckll to its Hyde. Non Random is like a neatly coiled ball of yarn (as aptly described by "old ladies" on Moooi's website). Its yarn is criss-crossed systematically unlike Random's random (ha!) yarn distribution.
Moooi has many other super interesting light fixtures to offer, which may be the subjects of future posts, but the Random is most certainly their most successful from a distribution/exposure point of view.
Visit our website for these and other inspiring Moooi products,
here.
Visit Moooi's website direct,
here.
See other products by Bertjan Pot,
here.
images:
moooi.com,
bertjanpot.nl
The title for this post is a bit misleading ... you may have been expecting a mash of a bunch of different random lights. Instead, you are getting one light in particular named Random, plus a bit about one other fixture called (of course) Non Random.
Moooi is new to Gabriel Ross, but this fixture isn't new to anyone interested in lighting design. Random was a hit from its birth and partnership with the Dutch design house. It is featured constantly in interior design magazines, online publications, and if I've seen them in commercial applications around Victoria, BC, then I'm sure that there is a Random to found in every city. If you're local, check them out at Prima Strada Pizzeria in Cook Street Village along with Marcel Wanders' (Moooi co-founder) Skygarden light fixture for Flos - but that's another post all together.
The Random light is named after the nature of its production process. A resin drained yarn is wrapped willy nilly around an inflated beach ball until it's nearly covered, leaving enough gaps for light to shine through, maintaining an airy and light presence. Also left unwrapped is an asymmetrically located small hole large enough for the bulb and chromed steel pendant to fit through. The beach ball is then deflated and voila... Random!
On a side note... or more appropriately... a "random" thought... I love that the name for the design is an adjective. It's like an excuse to play naughty with grammar, and that is just good fun... oh what the heck... it's funner.
Six years after Random's inception, Bertjan Pot came up with the Jeckll to its Hyde. Non Random is like a neatly coiled ball of yarn (as aptly described by "old ladies" on Moooi's website). Its yarn is criss-crossed systematically unlike Random's random (ha!) yarn distribution.
Moooi has many other super interesting light fixtures to offer, which may be the subjects of future posts, but the Random is most certainly their most successful from a distribution/exposure point of view.
Visit our website for these and other inspiring Moooi products, here.
Visit Moooi's website direct, here.
See other products by Bertjan Pot, here.
images: moooi.com, bertjanpot.nl