Wastberg Holocene No.4 Oil Lantern
HOLOCENE NO.4 OIL LANTERN
HOLOCENE NO.4 OIL LANTERN
Designed by John Pawson
Pawson’s design for Holocene No. 4 takes the notion of the oil lantern and meticulously reduces it to its essence in terms of function, form and palette, as a container for fire, with the means to carry or suspend.
Crucible-like in profile, the lantern is fabricated in stainless steel and aluminium, with matte exterior surfaces and a polished internal core, to reflect and amplify the flame.
The piece is designed for indoor and outdoor use and scaled to feel comfortable in a range of applications, singly or in groups, on the dining table or a windowsill, standing on the floor or hanging from a wall.
DESIGNER
JOHN PAWSON
For over 30 years, John Pawson CBE’s work – rigorous in its simplicity and modesty – has addressed the fundamentals of architecture.
It spans a wide range of scales and typologies, from private residences, museums, and hotels, to ballet sets and sacred spaces.
Like Alvar Aalto’s bronze door handle – “the handshake of a building” – Pawson’s work engages with a philosophy of space through sight and touch. He applies the exact same approach to both buildings and design commissions: “it’s all architecture”.
Regardless of scale, all of his projects share a consistent focus on mass, volume, surface, proportion, junction, geometry, repetition, light and ritual.
In this way, even a modest fork becomes a vehicle for much broader ideas about how we live and what we value.
John Pawson CBE has spent over thirty years making rigorously simple architecture that speaks of the fundamentals but is also modest in character. His body of work spans a broad range of scales and typologies, from private houses, sacred commissions, galleries, museums, hotels, ballet sets, yacht interiors and a bridge across a lake.
As Alvar Aalto’s bronze door handle has been characterised as the ‘handshake of a building’, so a sense of engaging with the essence of a philosophy of space through everything the eye sees or the hand touches is a defining aspect of Pawson’s work.
His method is to approach buildings and design commissions in precisely the same manner, on the basis that ‘it’s all architecture’.
Whether at the scale of a monastery, a house, a saucepan or a ballet, everything is traceable back to a consistent set of preoccupations with mass, volume, surface, proportion, junction, geometry, repetition, light and ritual.
In this way, even something as modest as a fork can become a vehicle for much broader ideas about how we live and what we value.
INFORMATION
PRODUCT TYPE
Oil lamp
BRAND
Wastberg
COLLECTION
Holocene
PRODUCTION
Made in Sweden
PACKAGING VOLUME
0.02 m³
ART. NO
H040101
EAN CODE
7330492008400
TECHNICAL DRAWING
PACKAGING DIMENSIONS
- Height : 49.7 cm
- Length/Width : 19.7 cm
NET WEIGHT
2.1 kg
GROSS WEIGHT
3.0 kg
MATERIAL
Hanger & oil canister: stainless steel
