Lua was commissioned for a private residence in North Vietnam.

The overall form of Lua, consisting of more than twenty thousand solid glass balls, is inspired by the movement of silk.

We wanted to provide an aesthetic rich in elegance and grandeur, and with a strong sense of relaxation and luxury by creating the gentle but dynamic undulating curves and folds.

The form was designed in collaboration with digital artists, Onformative. Using cutting-edge digital technology we developed a form inspired by the natural movement of silk by developing surprising and captivating sweeping forms that would be impossible to design by the human hand.

Each ball was hand-painted in various shades of amber and frosted white where the colour distribution was a function of the ‘tension’ in the fabric generated by the virtual silk-simulation computer model.

The installation is illuminated from above by UK-made spotlights and lit from within with hundreds of fiber optic light sources.

Numerous lighting effects, from relaxed evening mode to full party mode, are controlled using the wall-mounted iPad.

Lua is the Vietnamese word for silk.