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year 1991
material glass
source title The International Design Yearbook 1994
info Stephan Doesinger’s Prost lighting system uses a standard double-litre Austrian wine bottle as a translucent lampshade with typography sand-blasted on to the glass. “The basic idea is to fill the bottle with light, not wine,” says Doesinger, who is an industrial design student at Linz in Austria. “I wanted to use a banal product, a cheap, expendable object to cover the light, in order to transmit messages and quotations. The bottle is exchangeable; the quality of light is most important.” Doesinger, who has worked with Alessandro Mendini in Milan, created the Prost light installations for exhibitions in Linz and Vienna. In a similar exercise, Tejo Remy of Droog Design used milk bottles to create a dramatic light.
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year 1991
material glass
source title The International Design Yearbook 1994
info Stephan Doesinger’s Prost lighting system uses a standard double-litre Austrian wine bottle as a translucent lampshade with typography sand-blasted on to the glass. “The basic idea is to fill the bottle with light, not wine,” says Doesinger, who is an industrial design student at Linz in Austria. “I wanted to use a banal product, a cheap, expendable object to cover the light, in order to transmit messages and quotations. The bottle is exchangeable; the quality of light is most important.” Doesinger, who has worked with Alessandro Mendini in Milan, created the Prost light installations for exhibitions in Linz and Vienna. In a similar exercise, Tejo Remy of Droog Design used milk bottles to create a dramatic light.
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