The Art of Design Issue 35 2018 | Page 48

THE DA VINCI LIGHTING COLLECTION Karice Enterprises Ltd Website: www.karice.com / Photo credit: Jordan N. Dery If the Renaissance Man were alive today, how would he Using the latest in lighting, machining, and metalwork use his body of work to design a lighting collection? This technology, the Karice’s Da Vinci collection brings the is the inspiration for Maurice Dery’s latest avant-garde Italian Renaissance back to life, in avant-garde form. luminaire series. The light was designed, developed, and manufactured The Da Vinci collection is inspired by one question: If in Surrey, BC by the father-son design team at Karice Leonardo, the great Renaissancian, were alive today, how Enterprises: Maurice and Jordan Dery. would he incorporate 21st-century technology into his designs? Design Story Finding Leonardo in the 21st century Over the last ten months, this has been Karice’s inspiration and guide in creating this handcrafted luminaire series. The Da Vinci collection is based on the challenging premise of using modern technology to create an original In the fashion of Leonardo da Vinci, the theme revolves avant-garde suite of luminaire pieces that accurately around machine gears, along with magnifiers that are portray the spirit of what Leonardo was doing in the late used to intensify the light sources to mirrors, that can then 15th and early 16th centuries. redirect the light to the wall or floor.