SORA

CONTINUING THE HISTORIC WORK OF ORIGAMI

MASTERS SUCH AS YOSHIZAWA AND DESIGNERS SUCH

AS NOGUCHI; THE UK-BASED DUO HAVE DEVELOPED

THEIR OWN TAKE ON THE REVERED JAPANESE ART

FORM, USING THE MATERIAL TYVEK TO CREATE

SCULPTURES WHICH STRADDLE THE DISCIPLINES OF

ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN.

A SCULPTURAL STATEMENT PIECE WHICH APPEARS

TO LEVITATE IN ITS SURROUNDINGS, SORA EXUDES

A SERENE, RADIANT AURA WHILST TRANSCENDING

THE BOUNDARIES OF TRADITIONAL LIGHTING

DESIGN. THANKS TO ITS UNIQUE, FLOATING FORM,

SORA APPEARS TO DEFY THE LAWS OF NATURE - ITS

WINGED STRUCTURE PROVIDING A STANDALONE

FOCAL POINT FOR ANY SPACE.

WHEN CONTRASTED WITH SORA’S DELICATE, PAPER-

LIKE CONSTRUCTION, THE DIFFUSED EFFECT OF THE

EMBEDDED LINEAR LED LIGHT SOURCE CREATES AN

ETHEREAL GLOW WITH AN INTANGIBLE QUALITY,

REFLECTIVE OF THE DELICATE ARTISTRY OF

JAPANESE ORIGAMI.

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FUNG

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“We work by taking ordinary bits of a paper

and then just playing with what we can do with it.

And once we’ve got a shape that we kind of like,

like with Sora, you start to change it and add things

to it so that the angle changes.

And then you maybe add an extra fold here to give it

a bit more interest.

What we like to do particularly with Sora, is to

conceal the source of the light.

So the whole thing just glows.

It gives you a lovely indirect downlight in.

We wanted to create something new and we’ve done

that by integrating the light and the structure and

the origami into one cohesive whole.

Where there isn’t a light bulb, there’s just the object.

We also like the idea that people questions whether

is it art? Is it a light? We feel there shouldn’t be a

boundary, really.

It could be both sit quite happily and same as how

we feel about what we do.

It doesn’t have to be in a gallery.

It could be in a home and anywhere in between.”