Burbuja (Spanish) noun [ feminine ] /buɾ'βuxa/
bubble
Figurative “One’s own little world”
This collection of table lamps investigates the tension between gravity and levity,- weight and lightness captured in a silhouette. Each lamp pairs a hand-thrown ceramic base with a soft glow porcelain globe, a composition that is precise yet organic.
This sculptural and sensual tribe of tangible objects was conceived in the process of sketching up an adjacency architectural diagram (a mind map of bubbles) when we realized that the space we were designing was in need of some gentle fluidity.
Their language of rounded forms and stacked silhouettes nods both to the biomorphic optimism of Space Age and to Isamu Noguchi’s Akari,- his vision of light as sculpture, as air made visible. But where Noguchi chose rice paper, here the clay is left raw, textured, earthbound,- grounding the luminous porcelain above in something elemental.
Grouped together, they suggest a constellation, each one distinct yet part of a larger rhythm, a study of bubbles of light caught mid-ascent