Destructive Deco is a new series of lamps designed by Frank Tjepkema & Janneke Hooymans and produced by Droog. The lamps will be displayed at the 2005 Droog exhibition during the Milan Design Week.

According to the designer:

"The machine is programmed to apply decorations,
Unfortunately the machine can't stop.
As patterns become chaos,
Destruction becomes beauty."

The lamp designs are made of laser etched veneer which comes in three models. The laser was set to apply three independent overlapping patterns; the first is based on a traditional baroque wallpaper, the second is a sixties pattern and the third is an illustrative butterfly pattern. As the laser operates, it goes deeper and deeper into the material, from engraving to cutting, until it reaches a point where it is actually causing destruction instead of applying decoration. When should the laser stop? Until when does it ad to the beauty of the object? The most expensive lamp is the one that has been "treated" the longest by the laser, as operation minutes are costly with such high end technology.

More info: www.tjepkema.com

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Date Posted: April 12, 2005
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