La Cambre/ Ecole nationale supérieure des arts visuels (Brussels, Belgium)
Designer: Frederik Delbart
Project Description
The structure of these desk and wall lamps is composed of a single piece of glass and a OLED light bulb; the different supports are made of wood.
The principal idea was to employ glass as both a diffuser and a structure. Borosilicate glass, which has silica and boron oxide as its main glassforming constituents, was used for this purpose. Borosilicate glass is known for the pureness of its transparency, as well as for having very low coefficients of thermal expansion, making it more resistant to thermal shock than any other common glass. It is mainly used in laboratories.
The diffuser structure, accompanied by an OLED bulb that seems to disappear into the glass thickness, becomes mobile, like a flash -light, and is joined with a range of wooden supports that offer different inclinations.
La Cambre/ Ecole nationale supérieure des arts visuels
The Ecole nationale supérieure des arts visuels of La Cambre is a school of art and design that offers a wide array of educational programs, both at Bachelor’s and Master’s levels. The school is located in Brussels on the premises of the 16th century “La Cambre” Abbey, from which it gets its name.
La Cambre was founded in 1927 by the famous designer and architect Henry van de Velde and a group of avant-garde Belgian artists of the time. Since its early beginnings, art, architecture and design have been intimately linked as part of the same creative movement and process, in accordance with the Bauhaus model.
The Industrial Design Department is organized as three-year Bachelor and two-year Master programs. Each student can benefit from the richness of artistic thinking developed by the oth-er 16 departments, ranging from drawing, painting and sculpture to photography, animation, set design, ceramics, textiles, fashion, graphic design and interior design. In addition to the specialized design studio, which also includes technical and technological courses, a number of trans-disciplinary workshops, courses and seminars (both compulsory and optional) are offered in the arts field (video, performance, digital media, etc.), as well as in history, art criti -cism, philosophy, aesthetics, semiotics, literature, law, etc.
The industrial design program also offers industrial collaborations, international competitions and traineeships in the industry or design studios.
La Cambre is a member of the Brussels-Wallonia European University Pole and a partner, within the transdisciplinary platform ARTes, of the Brussels Conservatory and the INSAS (Na-tional Institute of the Performing Arts).