Design Miami/ 2015: Dawn Lights

The colour palette of the Dawn Lights series is inspired by the relationship between time, colour and light, and the moments when the clouds and sun unite in a ‘riot of hues’, according to Marcelis. ‘I looked at the different light temperatures that occur during the day – the warm hues of dawn and the cold tones of dusk.’

Large blocks of solid resin take on different reductionist shapes, each with a single source of white light cast deep inside. The neon cylinders create a subtle glow and highlight the graduating levels of transparency created by the tinted resin.

In line with gallery Victor Hunt’s ethos, the series is proposed as a series of functional ‘designart’ objects. ‘We understand designart as the grey zone between industrial design, crafts, architecture, sculpture, conceptual, installation and many other arts,’ the gallery explains.