soled by RMandrillon from france

Oled technology revolutionizes the world of lighting but also the product design one.

The possibilities that the Oled technology proposes are almost unlimited.

Beforehand when a lamp was designed, there was a source of light with a lampshade to filter and manage lighting.

Heat and obstruction were also criterions to be taken into account.

Nowadays with the Oled technology and particularly with the “special panel design” there is no more limit within creativity.

My question is to know how the designer can justify its creation if the criterion is not induced by the source of light.

I wanted to integrate the criterions in the object based into the panel and to highlight the strongest points of this technology.

To carry out my project I decided to work with solid timber, which up to now couldn’t receive elements of lighting because of the risk of fire.

Therefore I was wondering how to apply this material in order to give it a look as “natural” as possible. To reach my goal I carried out experiments on wood. It is while working on the timber’s limits that I succeeded my project. . Obviously I had to carry out several tests with its thicknesses, widths and different types of wood to obtain its form.

I decided to work on curved wood. But the technique of moulding wasn’t really suitable because it means to allow that it was drawn by a man’s hand. To bring its natural aspect I forced (coerce) wood to shape by itself. The wood gives itself its shape. I fixed the shape with three point of glue.

It is a lamp in solid oak with wood plates of 100cm of length by 6.5 cm of broad and 0.5 of thickness, which are forced in certain points and are curved without a mould. The two wood plates are structured to give form to a lamp that offers the impression that the light raise from its base. The various technical elements- the wires and the switch- are hidden into the structure. The base is ballasted to ensure the stability of the lamp. The use of “special panel design” is part of my project.

Now the shape is good, it will be easy to copy the form and use the technique of plywood molding to industrialised the lamp.

This method is unconventional but it is turned towards further experimentation and tries to redefine the conventional design’s rules, just like the Oled panels that redefine our limits of creation.