Spectra
Spactra project was developed as part of material and geometry research I conducted.
From that research, different objects were developed and manufactured. The first, ABCD set of tables launched during the Salone Del Mobile in Milan at Phygital exhibition curated by Frame magazine.
“I am particularly interested to create timeless design by using simple geometry and basic materials . The dialogue between the two is expressed in Spectra"
What is Phygital?
Frame envisions a material future in which the physical and digital realms are in constant conversations, so inherently intertwined that it's difficult to distinguish one from the other. With the lines between digital matter and physical design blurring, how can objects suggest the aesthetic of a phygital future.
Reflection and refraction, absorbent and repellent. My continuous interest to create a timeless dialogue from past to future through presently active living, has been expressed in Spectra, using Dichroic finished glass as a dominant material.
The environment we live in is affected by a spectrum of different conditions. I chose to use Dichroic glass to help express the significant conditions affected by light and time, reflection and refraction. Similar to the social behavior expressed through social media channels and the internet: absorbing and repelling, yet the glass, a modern material used since the Roman empire, has its own structural, solid properties.
The quartz is an abundant mineral in earth. The slabs are solid, reflecting physical, stable and timeless design.
“Design starts to shape a translucent passage and it is sustained thanks to a solid structure that we all lean on. Design as a strategy, the process is carefully planned but massively faster where boundaries blur and blend. The ambiguous dialogue of the above, between physical and digital is expressed throughout the design and the design process."
Blinds
Nearly each colour of the spectrum can be generated from incident light with this colour effect glass. Depending upon the incidence angle of light rays and the perspective of the viewer, it is colourless and intensely colourful, transparent or reflective. These properties are created by an extremely thin, optically transparent coating which reflects certain wavelengths of the light rays whilst others are transmitted unhampered.
Credit:
Design: Rona Meyuchas Koblenz
Commissioned by The British Council TLV and Fresh Paint Art
Photos: Daniel Schechter, Yoav Gurin, Noga Shdmi Van De Reap