Lindsey adelman biography
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BGC Craft, Art & Design Oral History Project
Julie Pastor (JP): This is Julie Pastor, and I’m interviewing Lindsey Adelman at her studio in New York City on October 29, 2014 for the Bard Craft, Art, and Design Oral History Project. inom was hoping that we could begin the interview with you telling me a little bit about where you grew up and when you grew up.
Lindsey Adelman (LA): Okay, sure. inom was born in Manhattan and grew up in 1968 and grew up in Westchester.
JP: Okay, cool. Did design play a role in your childhood at all?
LA: A little bit. Even though inom didn’t really know the word 'design', my mom was an interior decorator for about ten years, and she ran her own company, and inom remember, inom think inom went to the D&D [Decoration & Design] Building a couple times with her, and so even though inom didn’t really know about design necessarily as a vocation or a category I was very aware of Marimekko sheets and an Ericofon and certain things, and I knew I got this sort
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Patrick Parrish
LINDSEY ADELMAN has long been obsessed with illumination in all its forms. Her work treads the porous border between sculpture and design, taking inspiration from such diverse sources as Eva Hesse’s Rope sculptures, the pattern, colors, and bodily ornamentation of The Maasai, and the films of David Lynch. Ever since the debut of the Branching Bubble chandelier, the first product made in her newly opened studio in 2006, her goal has been to transform the ephemeral nature of light into something not merely tangible but enduring. Combining organic, handwrought materials like blown glass with the strong industrial beauty of machine-milled components, her lighting systems create radiant warmth while underscoring the drama of shadows and emptiness.
Her aesthetic reflects an untraditional background. While she sketched constantly as a child, she studied literature in college and began her career working on catalog text at the Smithsonian museums. It was
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Lindsey Adelman
Lindsey Adelman has long been obsessed with illumination in all its forms. Her work treads the porous border between sculpture and design, taking inspiration from such diverse sources as the paintings of Piet Mondrian, an elegiac passage from Camus’s “The Fall” and the spidery brilliance of Giacometti. Ever since the debut of the Branching Bubbles chandelier, the first product made in her newly opened studio in 2006, her goal has been to transform the ephemeral nature of light into something not merely tangible but enduring. Combining organic, handwrought materials like blown glass with the strong industrial beauty of machine-milled components, her lighting systems create radiant warmth while underscoring the drama of shadows and emptiness.
Her aesthetic reflects an untraditional background. While she sketched constantly as a child, she studied literature in college and began her career working on catalog text at the Smithsonian museums. It was there,