La Bella Durmiente – Santa & Cole’s Sleeping Beauty

A Contrast in Line and Colour

It is not often you see a light of such colour, especially in 1985 where cold halogen lights and stark metal structures dominated the market. La Bella Durmiente was a direct response to this era, a defiant aura in a championed colorful fluorescence (now LED) when this light source was considered blue and soulless.

Designed by Santa & Cole co-founders Gabriel Ordeig Cole and Nina Masó, La Bella Durmiente (Sleeping Beauty) is a totemic volume that explores the expressive potential of color, playing with contrasts between warm and cold hues. The result is a visually dynamic and balanced composition, a composition that nods to the geometric abstraction of Dutch Painters Piet Mondrian or Theo van Doesburg. Perhaps the theories of Mondrian’s relationships between line and colour can be seen in Masó and Cole’s La Bella Durmiente as a contrast of light, both through colour value and contrast to the market.

                     

                                            Peinture pure (1920) – Theo van Doesburg                                                Komposition mit Rot, Gelb, Blau und Schwarz (1921) – Piet Mondrian

 

 

AJAR would like to welcome La Bella Durmiente in both forms, including Menor, reaching a slightly smaller height of 1350mm rather than the 1800mm of its partner though equal in width. A light like this can sit in any room, stand alone or with company. An art piece dedicated to breaking the mould and capturing the relationship of light and art.

 

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