Horizontal pendant lamp. In The Tube diffuses a filtered, softened, directed and oriented light via the simple fixed or removable positioning of a shaped filter-mesh or a reflector, whose material gives the colour.
In 2008, Dominique Perrault described himself in eleven words : School. Rupture. Defiance. Void. Wall. Earth. Land art. Site. Place. Happiness. And finally, Mesh, a supple material that has structure but whose very essence is to be present and yet be invisible. It is a material that is both rigorous and poetic, virtual yet present and which the architect has used in the past as a way of delineating a geographic area, either as a protection or a way of welcoming, as well as a way of channelling natural or artificial light.
A man deliberately erased from the media and whose conceptual hedonism is coupled with enthusiasm and malice. Dominique Perrault’s signature is a rarity. The one he affixed with Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost on the IN THE TUBE, IN THE TUBE 360 ° and IN THE SUN collections is therefore an event : from architecture to domestic
