Ceiling Lamp n°3

Along with the pendant lights, these ceiling lamps are the first design objects Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen created as a designer duo in 2011. They presented the objects during a solo exhibition at Valerie Traan, the gallery of valerie_objects’ artistic director. The lamps look like almost naive drawings materialized in the air, adding a playful line of colour to the space. The design is utterly simple, and just consists of a bent and lacquered steel tube and an archetypical lampshade on top. “We initially unearthed the lampshade at a flea market." Hannes Van Severen says. “It has a fantastic shape: perfectly neutral." It is for this sense of clarity that Muller Van Severen is renowned. Just like the other furniture, the ceiling lamp creates space instead of filling it.