"Most lamps want to disappear into a room, but every now and then, one shows up that demands the room reorganize itself around it. The ML15 Helios, designed by Berlin-based artist Frank Buchwald in collaboration with MB&F's M.A.D.Gallery, is one of those objects. It's a lamp, technically. It gives off light, it has a switch, it plugs into a wall. But calling it a lamp feels reductive in the same way calling a Porsche 911 a commuter car technically isn't wrong but misses the entire point."
"The gallery itself was born out of a kind of beautiful stubbornness. Back in 2011, MB&F founder Maximilian Büsser couldn't get traditional retailers to properly display his three-dimensional watches, and art galleries told him his creations weren't really art. So he opened his own space in Geneva's Old Town and started curating the kind of work that lived between disciplines."
"Büsser discovered Buchwald's retro-futuristic Machine Lights online, visited his scarred industrial workshop in Berlin, and left having committed to buying the next ten lights for a gallery that didn't even exist yet. That kind of instinct, that willingness to bet on something before the infrastructure is in place, is rare."
The ML15 Helios, designed by Berlin-based artist Frank Buchwald in collaboration with MB&F's M.A.D.Gallery, celebrates the gallery's 15th anniversary. This 9-kilogram stainless steel and brass sculpture functions as a lamp but operates as a commanding art object. M.A.D.Gallery was founded by Maximilian Büsser in 2011 after traditional retailers and galleries rejected his three-dimensional watches. Büsser discovered Buchwald's retro-futuristic Machine Lights online, visited his Berlin workshop, and committed to purchasing ten lights for a gallery that didn't yet exist. This relationship, built on trust and creative vision, produced the ML15 Helios—a sculptural piece with three legs, a 120mm spherical globe bulb, and a dimmable LED ring replicating a solar corona.
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