Asmara Abigail Instagram – Buon Compleanno to my partner in crime Milanese @adinibrahim 💜 who always feed me with love and food during our roommates era a Milano al inverno 2017.
Throwback to our Lamp design for @icadartura 2023:
We go towards the light for this edition of Manual Pick, a collection of handmade lamps designed by Adin Ibrahim in collaboration with actress Asmara Abigail. Made of sawdust, La Luce di Asmara explores materials and shapes inspired by Italian design of the postmodernism era.
Inspiration can come from anywhere. For designer Adin Ibrahim, it’s Italy in the seventies when the postmodernism era birthed playful designs and explosive colours; it’s a person’s bold and vivacious energy; it’s a leftover material so futile at first glance that you wonder what you can do with it. The La Luce di Asmara lamps, which made their physical debut at the 13th edition of Indonesia Contemporary Art & Design back in September, are a culmination of all three.
Done in collaboration with Indonesian actress, dancer and longtime friend Asmara Abigail (hence the name), La Luce di Asmara’s backstory can be traced back to their days in Milan where they first met in 2017; Adin was working in an architecture studio and finishing his studies at Politecnico di Milano while Abigail was taking a short programme in the neighbouring city of Perugia. “We just click from the get-go. We both love art, history, and design, so it was so effortless for us when we decided to come together for this,” said Adin.
Made from sawdust waste, the collection of handmade lamps (La Grande Asmara, La Media Asmara and La Picolla Asmara) sees Adin exploring new materials and shapes—the latter an influence he drew from the postmodernism era. “If you see the lamp, it doesn’t resemble anything. The shape itself is uncanny. In the end, I’m talking about freedom of thoughts and shapes,” said Adin. Abigail added, “That’s the spirit of postmodernism that we both miss. Like when you’re angry and you respond to your feelings by creating something—likewise for these lamps.”
@manualjakarta – by Cindy Julia Tobing
14th November 2023
La Luce di Asmara is still available in a very limited number 💜 | Posted on 03/Jun/2024 07:53:47
