BCXSY, Booo bulbs / 106

True to its mission of experimenting with light, this Dutch company brought a design for a hand-shaped light source, by Boaz Cohen and Sayaka Yamamoto, to the Spazio Rossana Orlandi.

We normally see them focused on targeted projects or interacting with small local communities and their craft traditions to promote them via design which becomes the means to their re-foundation, from Israeli to Ireland.

So it is somewhat of a surprise to encounter them working on the development of a lighting system at the small green stand of Booo from Eindhoven at the Fuorisalone 2014. Delve deeper, however, into the heart of this project, still at the prototyping stage, and it becomes clear that this work is in total continuity.

BCXSY are always seeking inspiration and stimuli, little does it matter if, this time, they find them in a previously unexplored sphere. The long, luminous silicone tube that Sayaka bends and then fixes in unexpected positions before our very eyes embodies all the desire to surprise with small but ingenious solutions that distinguishes the work of these two designers, who both studied and then opened their studio in Eindhoven.

Their lamp is an elegant ribbon, little more than a metre long, that can personalise space and bend to the need of the moment. The prototype is flanked by a rigid demonstration version, as we wait for Booo technology to transform the idea into product.