Austerely minimal work by London designer, Philippe Malouin, is on display at NextLevel Galerie in Paris. A metal lattice provides the basis of the table, and constitutes the entirety of the vertical lamp: a spiderweb of aluminum rods connected by minute tin connectors, each fitted together with the refined precision of jewellry. You may think of a cage, or you may think of something altogether more diaphanous, but the works are very much within the classical Minimalist tradition of Sol LeWitt and Carl André--take a module and multiply that in strict geometric profusion. The problem with such impeccable geometry is that anything else becomes unassimilable. Hence, the light bulb in the Olie lamp feels like an appendage in the impeccable latticework in which it is suspended.
Still in all, an austere mechanical elegance predominates.
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