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Internationally renowned designer, Karim Rashid made of pastel colors his brand recognition, everything he creates is solar, it puts you in a good mood. Let’s have a chat with him and hear what he thinks about light…
Karim Rashid and the light.
Light is so ephemeral. Light is so flexible, light creates mood, light can be flattering or disturbing, light is chaos and order, light is beautiful and brutal. Light is essential. Light is immaterial. I love light, I love to design with light, I love to shape space with light, I love to give light form.
What do you “dream” when you draw a lamp, how born idea?
As designers we are cultural shapers. And I always believed that we should inform form. I like design that traverses the boundaries of the associative and touches on the sensual, one that goes beyond the modernist doctrine of “beinahe nichts” (“almost nothing”, Mies Van Der Rohe). Minimalism seems to be shifting to a more sensual minimalism, or Sensualism where objects communicate, engage, and inspire, yet remain fairly minimal a posteriori. I believe that simple yet human objects give meaning and memory sacred to our lives.
Talk me about NAFIR
The state between liquid plastic and solid material object a state of endlessness, it is a continual ephemeral experience a physical bliss. NAFIR is imagination pure and simple. I started to do the first sketches thinking of light as a complement to sound. For twenty years I have been fascinated by idea of flat surfaces wich become transformed and create fluid shapes. So originally, I thought of a surface pulled upwards at various point: transformed like this, the surface assumed organic, fluid shapes, similar to those of a trumped. What I wanted was a lamp wich was also a little like a sculpture, lovely even when the lights were off, and that it also was functional because of the LED. I also wanted a family of lamps whose shapes could be occasionally grouped to create a fantasy panorama comprised of light and shape.
