Some objects are more than just design. They are silence with a voice, movement in stillness – and at times, pure poetry cast in light. The new lighting collection by Ann Demeulemeester for SERAX is exactly that: an aesthetic echo of her iconic fashion language, transferred into fragile materials that not only illuminate spaces – but transform them.
Once an icon of fashion’s avant-garde, Demeulemeester has long since become a designer of atmospheres. With SERAX at her side, she has been creating fine porcelain, sculptural glass and now: lighting, where the interplay of light and shadow is just as artful as the objects themselves.
Poetry woven into textiles
In a world so often reduced to function, Demeulemeester deliberately centers something else: tactility, tension, sensuality. Her viscose lamps resemble textile sculptures – each composed of thousands of hand-painted threads that fall like a curtain, filtering light and painting with shadows.
“These objects don’t just sit quietly in the corner. They change spaces – and with them, the atmosphere,” says the designer herself.
Kiki, Wong, Chan: Character pieces with presence
Each lamp in this series has its own dramaturgy.
There is, for instance, Kiki, a floor lamp that resembles a textile sculpture – held by three needle-fine supports balancing a flowing cascade of threads in soft gradients from black to white or crimson to cream. Wong, on the other hand, forms a circle of thousands of threads – so finely painted, they appear almost like mist. This lamp doesn’t just float in the room, it transforms it.
Chan, with its strict V-shape, stages the interplay of control and chaos. The threads follow order – and yet feel free. Rey brings a near-dancelike tension: a spiral suspension lets the viscose strands twist, while the wall version uses a flexible arm that swings light like a perfectly balanced pendulum.
What makes this collection so special is not just the craftsmanship or visual effect. It’s the feeling it leaves behind:
These lamps feel like memories – soft, flowing, almost intangible – yet powerful and present.
Demeulemeester manages to turn a functional object into an emotional experience.
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