we looked for softness in light, moving through the thin skin between our fingers, through dust covered panes, through water and paper.

Elio was made in pursuit of recreating in physical form the soft, iridescent glow of light diffusing through uneven transparencies.

“There were diverse references and layers to how the lamps was realized, maybe most importantly the texture, inspired by frosted sugar jellies, that lets the translucent resin almost hold the light momentarily as it passes through. In the simple stacked form, the singular bend is an ode to an icon: Eileen Grey’s Bibendum lounge.

One of our friends had been insisting for a while that we name one of our pieces Elio — and this is going to sound ridiculous — after Timothée Chalamet’s character in Call Me By Your Name. When we completed the first lamp, it looked the part.”