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External - Internal. You can observe the street by standing behind the glass of the window:
noises are muffled, movements become phantomatic and the street itself appears, through the
transparent glass, but firm and hard, as a separate entity, pulsating in a “beyond.”
Or you open the door: you come out of isolation, you immerse yourself in this entity, you
become active there and you participate in this pulse of life with all your senses.
Thus begins, with an invocation to act as artists, the book “Point and Line to Plane” by
Wassily Kandinsky. Published in 1926 as the ninth volume of the Bauhaus Bücher series,
it was conceived by the author as the basic text of his course of painting, dedicated to
illustrating and mastering the key elements of abstractionism. Why choose it as inspiration?
Why rediscover an invocation to artistic composition as a reference to present the new Simes
lighting system? The reason lies in the “healing” function of light, of “right” light we should
say. In this first number of SIMES MAGAZINE we talked about it with architects and experts
through conversations that helped us clarify the idea that designing light does not respond to
simple functions of accessibility of architectural space.
Rather, it emerges clearly that light is first and foremost an expressive means that coherently
arises from stories that direct the creation of residential, living and working spaces, as
Nikos Adrianopoulos, Greek architect, a specialist in the design of architectures with great
spatialities and in which light is in constant dialogue with space and materials, reminds us.
Together light, when consciously designed and dosed, becomes a therapeutic tool, capable of
affecting the way we live, feed, act, in fact our first vital trigger. In these pages Shelley Jones,
researcher, scholar, lecturer, reminds us of a dedicated life, especially after an accident that
has forever changed her way of perceiving light, to study the effects of light on our lives.
So imagining the key to framing the true soul of IP System, it seemed to us that the
invocation not to remain secure inside, but decide to act, go out, illuminate with our art
the new times that await us, was the right way to conceive a system of illumination that for
its flexibility and modularity transforms what we call simply light, into a true design and
compositional instrument, able to “write” and “paint” architectural space, offering us the
possibility to have light where it is needed and to the extent that our body requires it.
The words of Roberto Botti, founder and leader of the company allow us to understand how
detailed and profound the road was that led to the creation and engineering of that perfection
that we can admire today, a way of working that places design, care of the form, ease of use at
the base of any industrial choice, a process that requires an undoubted ability to invest time
and resources by taking as its guide that “dream of light” that has been a central element for
the generations that have succeeded each other at the helm of SIMES.
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