For designer Marten Herma Anderson, everything begins with a simple, almost accidental moment: a melted candy on a light bulb. From that image, suspended between play and curiosity, a new series of lamps takes shape, moving between luminous object and sculpture, transforming memory into matter.
The project develops around a fascination with translucent color and the way light passes through materials not meant to glow. Anderson cites ice cream wrappers, gummy candies, and colorful packaging as recurring visual references, everyday elements capable of turning light into something soft and atmospheric. Using resin, the designer suspends melted pigments that recall the fluid texture of candy as it softens under heat. The forms seem frozen in a moment of transformation, as if they were slowly dripping around the bulb.
Each lamp combines glass fiber and resin shades with raw waxed ceramic bases. The contrast between these materials becomes central: the upper parts, luminous and colorful, appear light and almost organic, while the ceramic bases, matte and tactile, anchor the object and stabilize the composition. This dialogue between softness and structure allows the expressive resin forms to emerge while maintaining a precise formal balance.
Once switched on, the lamps change completely in perception. Color spreads through the resin unevenly: some areas glow softly, while others remain dense and more saturated. The light activates the inner forms and reveals details that stay almost invisible when the object is off, turning each piece into an atmospheric presence that changes over time.
Despite its playful appearance, the series reveals a precise and conscious material research. Anderson describes the project as an extension of his own habits and memories, linked not only to the taste of candy, but above all to its visual and luminous qualities. What begins as a spontaneous gesture—watching a candy melt on a light bulb—thus becomes a coherent collection where nostalgia and experimentation meet.
With these lamps, Marten Herma Anderson turns a fleeting memory into a tangible experience, creating objects that oscillate between design, sculpture, and memory, capable of combining visual lightness and material research in a form that is both essential and evocative.
ph. courtesy Ragnar Schmuck
