AARO CEILING

Simon, born in Arnsberg, set up his studio
in Hamburg after completing his studies at
the " School of Art ".
There he discovered the freedom, autonomy
and responsibility to be a designer. " Here's your
workshops, here's a pen, go on then. " This taught
him everything he needed to know about form,
materials, processes and most importantly: the
context. " If you don't know why you are doing
what you are doing, don't bother doing it at all. "
The starting point of AARO was a gesture. A
movement. He wanted to create an as fluid motion
as possible, which immediately lead him to the
sphere. A sphere has so many fantastic attributes.
With a sphere as a joint they are no limited directions,
it has no left or right, no top or bottom. So
with the sphere as the defining element of this
piece, everything else " revolved " around it. The
geometry, the balance, the friction. It all comes
down to the sphere, visually pointing at it. The end
result is an object that seems to be moved by the
wind. It revolves effortless around it's centerpiece,
like planets orbiting around each other.
With AARO, inspired by Aaron's rod, the magician
Simon Schmitz makes his lamp levitate.