Price

Price on request

DESIGN

Studio Anne Holtrop / Maniera

DIMENSIONS

L50,6 x W35,6 x H56 cm

MATERIALS

Sand cast aluminium

DESCRIPTION

In 2014, architect Anne Holtrop begins tracing the ruins of the Barbar Temple in Bahrain, thought to honor Enki, Sumerian god of water and craft. The temple, first built in 3000 BCE and reconstructed several times since, sits in what was Dilmun, a sacred port, the original garden of Eden. Long before Adam made Eve, Enki met Ninhursag, Mother of the Rock, and together they created the world. Enki and Ninhursag conceived plains and trees, rivers and ponds. They loved and warred and eventually brought the innocent inhabitants of Dilmun into consciousness, teaching them the law of motion, that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The ALUMINIUM LAMP takes cues from the formal language of the temple. Anne Holtrop uses its geometrical forms, arches and straight lines, to create objects that pay tribute to the monument.

ENQUIRY

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