Light in perfect balance

The basic form of a sphere is perfectly balanced on the edge of a rod.

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IC Lights Suspension

Michael Anastassiades,

2014

I remember watching a short film about a juggler, Tony Duncan, rolling a set of spheres in the palm of his hands and upon his arms. There were moments when the spheres would seem perfectly still, on the edge of his fingers. Only if you looked very closely you could see them spinning around to achieve the balance. Then I came across the old photographs of Paul Cinquevalli, capturing a moment in the art of contact juggling.

IC Lights is a collection of Lights made of a 30-centimetre glass sphere that projects light outwards in a delicate equilibrium on the end of the slanting baton. Apparently unstable, sphere and baton are magically balanced. The IC Lights by Michael Anastassiades have the poetic grace and visionary design quality that have always characterised the work of the Cypriot designer.