Launched this week in Milan as part of Milan Design Week, ‘Me and You’ is a new range of lighting by Australian designers Volker Haug (Volker Haug Studio) and David Flack (Flack Studio).
They say that necessity is the mother of invention or as Plato wrote in the Republic: “Our need will be the real creator”. This plays out in the story of Me and You: when David Flack was installing a vintage light and the glass fitting broke, he contacted Volker Haug to come up with an emergency replacement.
With only the 20 x 20 centimetre back plate as set, the pair began a series of investigations with material and form that has resulted in a new collection of lights, called Me and You. “The incident was a potent reminder of the powerful possibilities for collaboration, and it fast developed into a provocation for more expansive creation,” say Haug and Flack.
The two designers approached the task with their own individual creativity, process and experience, with Haug’s way of working reflecting his background in industrial design and Flack’s in interior design. “Flack’s design discernment came from envisioning each light’s presence in-situ within the space; whereas Volker Haug would see a light from all the same angles, only to push technical and material features even further.”
The collection includes two square-backed lights: Lucky Stud with rows of small circles in brushed nickel or bronzed brass; and Superstrada in aged brass with a series of vertical lines. There’s also rectangular walls lights: Ruffle with vertical waves in aged brass; Troye with pin-pricks in brushed nickel or aged brass; and Me, Myself and I in cast brass.
There’s also Dado; a cube-shaped wall light in cast glass; Pony, which has an aged brass shade; Fleur, a pendant in fibreglass; Tux, a table lamp with fibreglass shade and cast glass base; and Bruce Alto, a vertical cast brass wall light.
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