Lighting Profile: Paul Cocksedge

摘要

In business for just four years, Paul Cocksedge is one of the hottest young lighting designers in Great Britain, the well-lit "It Boy." Upscale clients such as the Bombay Sapphire Foundation and Swarovski jewelers commissioned him to design lamps, and last summer's Touch Me exhibition on tactile design at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London showcased his work. Cocksedge's pieces also are on display in that museum's Contemporary Glass Gallery. And last year he was short-listed for Designer of the Year in the U.K. Since graduating in 2002 from the Royal College of Art, where he studied under mentor Ron Arad, Cocksedge's curiosity and need to scratch an intellectual itch have sparked explorations in the art and science of illumination. He researches a subject that interests him—perhaps glassblowing or the geometry possible to produce with lasers—then his findings inform a luminaire design concept. His fixtures transform the familiar into something engaging, while eliciting a measure of mystery.