As part an extremely well-received design installation for Milan Design Week 2008, Eco Designer David Trubridge presented a collection of furniture and lights which took inspiration from the pairing of small Pacific islands and the 'matching' small white clouds that sat above them. As he navigated his way in a small boat with his family from England to New Zealand he learned, like the polynesian navigators before him, that such clouds were the way to anticipate any atolls that lay beyond the horizon.
For the installation, in an exercise of engineering prowess, Trubridge was able to create forms of great rigidity without any internal structure by drawing the same sorts of spirals found in the nature onto a sphere and then flattening and distorting that even ball into various cloud shapes.
In 2020 the new wooden version of these lights were supposed to be launched in New York until, like almost all designers around the world, Covid 19 meant that their presentation was left to smaller events such as Architects at Work Rotterdam, various online shows, and a presentation at Moaroom in Paris in January 2021.
Over the past 16 years David Trubridge has developed large scale wooden lights like these ranging from 1m to 2,4m in height which can be delivered to locations as kit sets to be assembled on-site - thus permitting a net reduction in the carbon footprint and building of single-use crates normally necessary for objects of such scale.
The new wooden clouds are made from sustainably-grown bamboo plywood and either offer the warmth of translucent wood or can be ordered with various interior colors or completely in black or white.
Dimensions :
Small : dia 1250mm x H 450mm
Large : 1717mm x 987mm x H475mm
Available in all David Trubridge collection colors
