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Unusually for a product designer of our time, these are the only designs she made before she developed the shape and form of the light through hands-on moulding of the material. The finished product is made out of pre-pleated aluminium mesh. The sketches show her initial ideas, with fluted forms developing from the pleats. 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Reverse: \"White cement box/mesh wound round to make dense\" and signed and dated: May 98 GSO","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Obverse: Suspended from ceiling/clear cable 2cove\". 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The fine-tuning of the design was achieved by manipulating and experimenting with the properties of the material to see what shapes it would make and hold.  The pleated and double-folded forms reflect and refract the light as it passes through the holes in the mesh and the piece is like a light sculpture, which also casts patterns onto nearby surfaces. The use of  traditionally industrial materials was popular for domestic interiors at the end of the 1990s, particularly in loft-type flats.","date":{"text":"2000","earliest":"2000-01-01","latest":"2000-12-31"}}],"partNumbers":["E.992-2000"],"accessionNumberNum":"992","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":2000,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-05-23","recordCreationDate":"2004-01-29","availableToBook":false}}