Elevating the Mundane: Flaming Stars Ceramic Lamps by Natascha Madeiski.

With Flaming Stars ceramic lamps, Natascha Madeiski appropriates existing objects to create something entirely new. The London-based multidisciplinary designer borrows everyday objects of low value—things like leftover materials and old prototypes—and alters them, combining these objects into new individual lighting sculptures.

Speaking about her process, Natascha explains: “I am looking for innovation through experimentation with the materials, their manipulation and processes involved working on the fine line between experimental and functional objects.”

Several very mundane objects were used in this process including a modelling balloon, a plastic funnel, off cut materials, even some home baked bread. All these objects form an archive of available parts which initially have been spontaneously assembled into humorous ceramic collages.

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“We often give very little value to a balloon, a discarded off cut, things that we keep in our drawers. On reflection, these are often objects that we connect to specific moments, and therefore, they are kept to preserve these memories,” Natascha elaborates. “During the pandemic, we all have been closer to our homes and our belongings; I used what was there already.”

The lamps are produced in ceramic using a slip-casting technique. This collection has been set to seven different characters, and they are now available in a colourful glazed or metallic silver finish. For more information, click here.

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[Images courtesy of Natascha Madeiski. Photography by Lorenz Cugini.]