Quin.MGX

Designed by Bathsheba Grossman

Technique: SLS
Material:
Pendant: PA (nylon)
Sconce: PA + epoxy
Colour: White
Design: Sconce: Stainless steel plate

Models available:
Pendant: Ø 228mm
Ceiling/sconce: H 116 x 223 x 230mm
Small Quin Pendant: Ø 140mm
Lamp: halogen max 50W / max 20W

About Quin
This sculpture marks the end of a series that has spanned Bathsheba Grossman%u2019s sculptural life to date, beginning with the four-sided tetrahedron and progressing through the five Platonic solids to the last and most mystical of them, the twelve-sided dodecahedron. In the 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 light-sculpture is a household embodiment of that unity: the Quintrino. Onto the basic form of the dodecahedron %u2013 for those who enjoy games with exotic dice, it is a 12-sided die %u2013 The designer has sculpted a topology that plays at every point with the transition between inner and outer space. The eye is led into the sculpture along many swooping paths, leading from triangles to pentagons and back again.
The lamplight also follows those paths. The light, white material is itself translucent, and here it%u2019s made more translucent by a myriad of perforations. But in a more global way, the geometric facets of the original solid are unloosed from each other, and are now free to rotate in space, opening out their boundaries into curves that fl y past each other. This lets the turning surfaces override each other interestingly, like waves on water, while keeping the sculpture open into space in all directions.