"As with language, design leverages semiotics - the study of signs and symbols regarding their messaging, associations, and emotions - to imbue creations with meaning beyond their material presence. Blue Green Works announces the release of Crown, a new lighting collection that translates the centuries-old emblem of authority into contemporary, sculptural forms. Designed by founder and creative director Peter B. Staples, the collection explores the object's semiotic resonance while adding to the contemporary language of American Craft."
"The initial inspiration arose from a story reporting on medieval crowns discovered hidden in a Lithuanian cathedral wall, wrapped in wartime newspapers. Stripped down and minimal, these relics resonated not only as objects of metal and form but as symbols of survival and meaning. "I've always been fascinated when something is both object and symbol, literal and figurative," Staples notes."
"Crown comprises four variations: Pendant I, Pendant II, Pendant III, and Flush Mount. Each balances symbolism with pragmatism. Unlike historical crowns decorated with embellishment, these fixtures are distilled to silhouette and glow. They hold the memory of their source material but reframe it in a modernist vocabulary of curves, proportion, and restraint. By abstracting the crown into glass and metal, Blue Green Works detaches it from its historical weight while retaining its symbolic charge."
Peter B. Staples designed Crown, a lighting collection that reinterprets the crown emblem as contemporary, sculptural fixtures. The collection includes Pendant I, Pendant II, Pendant III, and a Flush Mount. Inspiration came from medieval crowns discovered hidden in a Lithuanian cathedral wall, wrapped in wartime newspapers. The pieces distill crowns to silhouette and glow, abstracting form into hand-formed glass 'petals' radiating from a polished steel or brass core. Available in seven colors, the fixtures balance symbolic resonance with pragmatism, removing historical weight while retaining cultural echoes through a modernist vocabulary of curves, proportion, and restraint.
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