102 ON SHOW | MILAN DESIGN WEEK
Kreon Showroom OpeningKreon celebrated the opening of its new
Tortona-based showroom during this year’s
Milan Design Week, with a night of hikari
gin!
In among the new innovations on show,
was the new Oran line, which marks the
company’s first foray into decorative
lighting. Consisting of pendant and ceiling
luminaires, they are available in black and
white, or in pure materials such as bronze.
The mouthblown lamps come in two shapes,
round or cone-shaped, or in alabaster.
The pendant is optionally covered by a
lampshade.
Oran’s design is based on the architectural
principle of the ‘plastic number’. Thebasic shapes that can be derived from
the number’s proportions make up the
building blocks of this new line of lighting
luminaries.
Designing from the plastic number means
working with spatial components. Creating
spatial luminaires is in strong contrast with
Kreon’s earlier designing principles, which
were exclusively applied to flat surfaces.
For Kreon, Oran is its first design to claim
space and to actively demand to be a part
of it. The product’s spatiality can be seen
in its proportions, as well as its dimensions
and materialisation.
The unique form of Oran’s reflector inside
the lamp was inspired by aspects of nature,specifically, the Japanese Venus’ flower
basket sponge.
The reflector is printed with 3D-techniques.
To mimic the natural shape of the Venus’
flower basket, a simple element is
enlarged in a tiered manner giving Oran’s
reflector the appearance of having grown
in an organic way. While using the newest
techniques, the Oran’s glass lamp is
mouthblown, reminiscent of traditional
methods. The Oran line utilises artisan
techniques and modern technologies in one
design.
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