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FAIRISLE LIGHTS

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Fair Isle Lights is a installation by designers Samoyed and Dean Brown that carefully brings together light, glass, paper, knitting patterns and wood in an intimate site-specific collection of 150 Christmas decorations. There is a range of 25 designs and each one is available to buy in a limited edition of 6.

The beauty of this unique collection is in the surprising contrast of delicate Fair Isle patterned paper and functional scientific glassware. A limited edition of 150 Fair Isle lights were produced ,exhibited and sold in Pageant Gallery, Edinburgh, Nov-Dec 2008.

 

 

  

 

 

The peices were inspired by traditional Scandinavian and Fair Isle knitting patterns, which were re-interpreted into a computer format that could be lazer cut onto paper.

 

 

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 The piece is finished off by back lighting the lazer cut paper with a warm white LED. Where there are patterned holes in paper the LED light shines through.

 

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 A pine wood stucture was built to show case the lights during the exhibition, which accomodated 50 of the lights, displayed at eye-level. The 'honest' & 'engineered' aesthetic of the structure didn't draw the focus away from the delicate peices themselves.

 

 

 

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 The exhibition launch was complemented by an extra specail intimate live musical performance by Samoyed (Andrew Cook).