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urchin softlight

urchin softlight invites playful interaction. Using flexible honeycomb geometry, the textile shade expands and morphs into myriad shapes as you manipulate it with your hands. Its elastic movement and shifting form are akin to that of a sea creature, giving the luminary its unique name.urchin’s asymmetrical sides create two distinct families of forms. Flipping the flat side out turns the shade into a cone or cylinder, while the curved side fashions more rounded, natural shapes.The shades are made from a textile that possesses the delicate look of Japanese washi and transmits light as gentle glow. A non-woven polyethylene, the material is tear- and water-resistant, UV-stable and anti-static to repel dust.

Sustainability

By virtue of its honeycomb cell structure, the soft collection makes highly efficient use of its material. urchin expands in form many times its compressed dimension and can be easily re-compressed for storage or shipping. Light in weight and high in strength, the honeycomb allows the structures to be spontaneously rearranged to transform space.The soft collection eschews rigid building materials for more flexible, sustainable alternatives. The polyethylene textile used for urchin softlight is 100% recyclable. molo is dedicated to pairing this material with non-toxic fire retardants, adhesives and inks.

Pricing

Please contact info@molodesign.com, or visit molodesign.com/collections/lighting/urchin-softlight/ for pricing.

Notes

urchin's integrated LED light source is available in warm white (2500K) or daylight white (4200K) colour temperatures.

Led by Stephanie Forsythe + Todd MacAllen, molo is a design and production studio based in Vancouver, Canada. Balancing between the realms of art, design and architecture, molo products and projects are grounded in space making and range in scale from tea set to museum. The design of molo products stems from Forsythe + MacAllen’s architectural exploration. They are inspired by the concept of smaller, tactile objects having true potency in the experience of a space. By working across a range of sizes, Forsythe + MacAllen discover how furniture can heighten the sense of human scale and experience in architecture, or how furniture and product design benefit from thinking in the larger context of place and space making. Hands-on making has always been fundamental to Forsythe + MacAllen’s design process. Ideas pass from mind to hands to material and back again, ingraining a tactile sense of materiality, construction, space and experience. This process has developed to include experimentation with factory production, in close collaborations with manufacturers. It is a way of working that leads to happy accidents and discoveries, inspiring design improvisation and original thinking.molo’s award-winning soft collection, comprised of flexible space partitions, lighting, seating and table elements exemplifies their exploration of production process and experiential space making. Recognized for poetic beauty and pragmatic innovation, softwall and softseating were acquired by the Museum of Modern Art for their permanent collection. molo and the soft concepts have also been honoured with the prestigious Danish INDEX Award, for design to improve life. Forsythe + MacAllen began working together in 1994 at Architecture school. Constructing a number of houses and small-scale objects, Forsythe + MacAllen won several international competitions for design projects and conceptual ideas, including Grand Prize in the Aomori Northern Style Housing Competition, juried by Tadao Ando and Jean Nouvel. The Aomori submission would later evolve into the waterfront Nebuta House, a museum dedicated to its namesake festival. These early projects and ideas have become molo’s foundations. Since its formation in 2003, molo has assembled a dedicated team and grown into a thriving collaborative design and production studio. Additionally, molo has an extended family of specialized manufactures, consultants and contractors that they work with in a beautiful endeavour to bring imagination to fruition.

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