Seoul Design Award 2025
Soft Solids wax lighting received a global design prize that honors projects creating more harmonious and sustainable relationships between people, society, and the environment.
Soft Solids at the Lithuanian National Library
At the Palanga Summer Reading Room, an iconic example of Lithuanian organic modernism designed by architect Algimantas ÄŒepys in 1966, Soft Solids wax-and-light objects enter into dialogue with the architecture.
Light Objects that go beyond mere function,
telling stories and infusing everyday spaces with dreaminess.
Soft Solids
The Soft Solids lighting series explore the intentional use and repurposing of natural material—wax, reflecting on its potential for regeneration within design practice.
The lighting series features biomorphic forms that symbolize growth and regeneration in nature. The collection was inspired by the organic nature of wax and its capacity to transform from a shapeless mass into a tangible form, reverting to a flexible or even fluid state. A natural wax blend encodes environmentally friendly renewal processes and is seen as a versatile material for creation and upcycling. The fusion of new elements, crafted from natural wax, with existing ones, including metal and glass components, weaves a narrative of nostalgia, grounded in the present, yet projecting towards the future. This approach pays tribute to creative individuality, revitalizing vintage objects with fresh energy and encouraging viewers to recognize their original designs while appreciating their transformed states.
SCOOP series of tactile light objects invite touch.
SCOOP is a series of tactile light objects exploring the sensory qualities of natural wax. Sculptural by day and luminous by night, each piece reveals the unique character of its material.
Stem light sculpture embodies symbolic meaning representing the processes of growth and regeneration occurring in nature.
The installation consists of natural wax modules connected into a totem-like forms. The piece can be adjusted to fit different heights and compositions for various spaces.
Soft Solid candles
Choose the way you like them – upside, downside, or have them shift when in a different mood.
Observing shifts of light
A wall mounted sculpture that responds to natural and artificial light.
Daydreamer
Daydreamer is a hybrid object of art and design, creating ways to observe the phenomena of light.
The luminaire consists of two individual parts – the curved dichroic glass piece and the quartz sand element with an integrated miniature spotlight. A seemingly transparent curved glass tints the surrounding surfaces with colours and becomes a brush to create paintings of light. Dichroic glass has special optical properties: it reflects some of the component colours of light and is permeable to others. It reveals a fact that we all know but can not see: white light contains many colours. The object brings an opportunity to observe the continues shifting: during the day – with changing natural light, and in the evening – with the help of artificial illumination. It is the light that forms the dialogue between the elements of sand and glass, shaping it into wall mounted luminaire- the Daydreamer.
