Thorsten van Elten - Pigeon Light

 

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Pigeon Light is a small piece of metropolis for your home, an urban souvenir.

The English designer Ed Carpenter joined the English manufactured Thorsten van Elten to capture a piece of metropolis with the Pigeon Light.

Pigeons appear in droves in most of the big cities, even being counted as a plague, at least when they populate the town center leaving nothing but dirt behind.

Nevertheless these animals participate at the rough charm of big cities, such as London, Paris, Berlin or New York, in many descriptions.

Ed Carpenter freed the pigeon from all its unappealing peculiarities with the Pigeon Light, and put it in the limelight as a symbol for modern forms of urban life.

The fact that Pigeon Light is a luminaire, emphasizes the beautiful, bright and shiny aspects of a metropolis.

Pigeon Light appears in several colors and can be fixed at diverse places, just like the real pigeon settles down nearly everywhere.

Design: Ed Carpenter

The designer Ed Carpenter is a sculptor originally; at least it was that, what he studied at the Kingston University before he decided to become a designer. Together with André Klauser he founded the design duo Klauser & Carpenter. Designer Ed Carpenter