Tag Archives: Pasque D. Mawalla

This intuitive light was designed to reflect nature’s law of balance!

Posted on by

While we all wait to find some light at the end of the tunnel that is the year 2020, we can continue admiring beautiful lighting designs like the Wave desk lamp! Inspired by nature’s way of always maintaining balance, this minimal lamp will certainly tip the scales of interior design in your favor.

Nature will always find a way to restore fair balance and this is the way of life – balance is a natural law that we observe all around us as well as within us. The Wave lamp embodies this philosophy and puts it forth in an elegant manner that lights up your space. “Designed using simple dome geometry for its diffusers with the addition of a rather striking base, the Wave lamps base takes the form of a segmented wave symbolizing the unbalance that exists within pure balance,” describes the team.

Wondering how it works so you don’t end up see-sawing it a little too hard? Same. Wave utilizes a series of chambers that are filled to maintain its center which means when it is upright the lights are turned off. Tilt it slightly to either side and it will cause the interior balance to shift which will trigger the mechanism to generate light. To turn it off, simply restore balance – same law applies for negativity in our lives too! “Nature is pure balance, and once that balance is disrupted, we get the warning light, this is the story of the Wave desk Lamp,” says Mawalla and we couldn’t agree more!

Designer: Pasque D. Mawalla

Does your instinct tell you to push or pull this circular door handle?

Posted on by

Innovation can strike during boredom and while we are all currently at home constantly interacting with doors, not many of us thought of making that experience more fun. The O-handle by Pasque D. Mawalla reimagines our regular door handle and gives it a new geometric form without changing our inherent ways of using a handle. It consists of a circular handle that sweeps into its circular stem creating a unibody system. The unique hollow circle handle design retains the functionality of the door handle while challenging the traditional horizontal bar design language.

Designer: Pasque D. Mawalla

Aptly named, Slate is a 360-degree rotating lamp that’s a head-turner!

Posted on by

When you first look at the Slate lamp, there’s something instantly attractive about it! Probably its odd shape and the fact that it doesn’t really look like a lamp catches your attention right away. The designer Pasque D. Mawalla utilized the principles of simple geometry to create a unique lighting design. Inspired by the concept of fluidity, the lamp was designed to be as free-flowing as possible.

Slate consists of two major parts. The first part which is basically the bottom half consists of the circular base and the lower cylindrical section. This is the primary power source. The second part consists of the upper half, which is an extension of the cylinder and goes on to form an elongated slate-like element. The underside of the slate section holds the light tube and is the source of lighting. However, it’s most interesting feature would be that the entire upper half including the slate can be rotated at 360 degrees! This separates it from the usual one-directional table lamps, transforming it into a lighting piece that can be positioned according to your needs, allowing you to adjust the light source and focus it on any section of your desk!

According to Mawalla, Slate is “a statement piece”, and we agree! It’s a far cry from the conventional table lamps, unique not only in its functionality but also in its classy aesthetics!

Designer: Pasque D. Mawalla

A vinyl turntable inspired washbasin to hit you with a wave of nostalgia!

Posted on by

I’ve never really given much thought to washbasins, accepting them as a normal component of a washroom, and a structure to wash my hands in. However, Pasque D. Mawalla’s ‘Santuri’ washbasin has me intrigued! The name Santuri has been derived from the Kiswahili translation of the word ‘Record player’, as Mawalla is himself a native of Tanzania, East Africa. In an attempt to pay homage to traditional music roots, Mawalla created a washbasin that looks exactly like a record player or a vinyl turntable. Have I got the attention of all music lovers? Mawalla picked up interesting cues from a record player to create a retro-esque washbasin with a musical twist. A glimpse of the turn-table platform can be seen in the two-toned washbasin. The basin is a circular and wooden structure, with a smaller matte black circle in the center, representing the platter of the turntable.

However, the feature that really strikes me is the washbasin’s tap! The tap is sleek and matte black as well, with a wooden base. It is a replica of the tonearm you see on a turntable. Tonearms allow a record to play when placed on one, and also stop it from being played when moved away from it. Similarly, the tap of the washbasin functions as a tonearm. When you move the tap towards the basin, it allows the water to flow from it, however, once you move the tap back to its original position, the flow of water simultaneously stops. Hence when one moves the tap, they are instantly transported back to all the times they handled a turntable, creating an immediate emotional connection. In fact, the opening of the tap looks like the headshell of a turntable! The washbasin rests on a block of pure white marble, creating a perfect contrast to it’s black and brown color tones.

Mawalla created Santuri with the intention that it would appeal to music lovers, especially vinyl record and turntable fanatics, and would take them on a subtle trip down memory lane. However the clean, minimalistic and vintage aesthetic of Santuri has caught my eye as well, and I wouldn’t mind a turntable doppelganger as a washbasin!

Designer: Pasque D. Mawalla

An ambient-lamp is built right into the switch that controls it!

Posted on by

Unlike most switches that have an ON and an OFF, Pasque Mawalla’s Switch behaves slightly differently. Designed to be a lamp in itself, the switch rocks upwards, downwards, and rests in a neutral position. While in neutral, the light stays off, but the minute you rock it either upwards or downwards, it turns into an ambient lamp, casting light in the direction it’s been angled.

What’s remarkable about the Switch is that it’s a different product with the same UX as its predecessor. Designed to be switched on and off just like a normal switch, the lamp explores new ideas, making it rather innovative. Plus, it only seems natural that the lamp should go off when the switch is in its neutral position, flush against the wall!

Designer: Pasque D. Mawalla

A lamp that aesthetically separates the light source and the diffuser

Posted on by

The Unire Lamp looks pretty remarkable, at least in the renders. Theoretically, it comprises two elements. A light source, and a scatterer (like most lamps and lighting devices. The light source is an LED strip hidden within one half of Unire’s sleek metal frame, while the diffuser or scatterer is a frosted glass disc that sits in the other half of Unire’s metal frame. Switch the LED on by aligning the two units together and you get a bright, sharp light from the LED strip… aligning the frosted glass disc under the LED strip also helps scatter the light into a uniform glow. The light strip becomes much more visible (and fuzzy) when seen through the frosted glass, creating an illusion of sorts that makes the light source look bigger when seen through the diffuser.

Designed by Pasque D. Mawalla, the Unire is currently just conceptual, although I don’t see why we could build a prototype of this right away. I might alter the bottom-half though, because that split-circle base looks worryingly unstable.

Designer: Pasque D. Mawalla

A Mirror for Mixing Up

Posted on by

Named after the material loop that connects and contains its parts, the Band mirror offers reflection in more ways than one. Users can hang it normally with the larger mirror section dangling below the white marble mount OR they can adjust it at any angle to create an alternative, striking aesthetic. This simple change challenges perceptions about placement and creates a perplexing visual for viewers and encourages them to take a second glance as they ponder its odd physics.

Designer: Pasquè Dudley Mawalla

band_mirror_01

band_mirror_02

band_03