Can you capture impressionistic ideas of light and color as an abstract shape that changes its appearance depending on how you look at it? That’s what French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec aimed to do with their new glass collection.
Their Oblique & Chevron collection—created for architecture glass maker Skyline Design—is a futuristic update of the classic stained glass windows from medieval times. But instead of using lead and religious imagery, the two brothers used a computer algorithm to transform their inspiration—the “sensation of light and colors” in everyday life—into abstract patterns.
Then the designers added an extra layer of translucent gradient color to the glass. The darker lines act like the lead in old medieval windows, breaking the base color. At the same time, they have small variations in their geometry and color density, which interact with the base color layer to create infinite, apparently random variations of that hue. You can see how this works here:
[Photos: © Studio Bouroullec/courtesy Skyline Design]The collection, which is intended to be used in the interior design of everything from lavish offices to hotels to homes, has four versions, each with its own geometric pattern: Chevron Fill, Chevron Stroke, Oblique Bold, and Oblique Regular. Each of them are available in different colors: sea (blue), pond (graphite), forest (green), and bark (brown).
The prolific designers have a love story with glass and crystal. They recently built Swarovski-encrusted LED fountains at Paris’s Champs-Elysées.
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