Image source: DCW éditions — In The Tube
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Collection Story
Origin
In The Tube is a collection of wall lights and pendants designed by the architect Dominique Perrault and the designer Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost for DCW éditions. Their objective was a collection that is utterly original, almost indescribable, nearly unbreakable, timeless and completely durable.
Design Language
The collection comprises strong ideas and forms that are both free and constrained, and it comes in several lengths, diameters and colours. Its high-performance tubes could be just as easily at home in a James Bond spy kit as in a Jules Verne rocket.
First collaboration
DCW éditions presented the tubes in 2015 at Maison & Objet, then at Euroluce in Milan. Until then the company had only reissued twentieth-century objects, and this was its first work with contemporary creators on something new. Two collections exist today, the original tubes and the 360-degree tubes.
Key Pieces
Nine articles belong to the collection, among them In The Tube 120-700 Wall IP20 and In The Tube 100-500 Wall.
Pieces in this collection
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