The new design collaboration with the world-renowned Belgian design duo Muller Van Severen is now available in stores. Muller Van Severen was founded in 2011 by Belgian artist duo Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen. A shared love of colour and materials is often the inspiration behind many of the duo’s designs. Celebrated around the world for their minimal elegance, they bring their eye for colour and their affinity for simplicity that eschews the ordinary to a range of HAY items.
"For us, the collaboration with HAY is the perfect occasion for us to offer our work to a wide and also to a young audience," says Muller Van Severen.
"We carry the same passion as Mette and Rolf Hay, which was very important in the creation of these objects. Our shared values informed the development process and research significantly as we all sought to stay true to elements we consider to be essential, such as authenticity and sensitivity, even though our items for HAY are produced at larger quantities than other Muller Van Severen designs."
Arcs Shade and Arcs Wall are made from one stainless-steel sheet with rounded edges at the top and bottom, Arcs' edges are joined together to produce a scalloped silhouette.
Available as a table, wall or pendant lamp, it creates atmospheric gestures and patterns of light and offers a poetic illumination as light is softly projected from both ends of the lamp.
Arcs Candleholder protoypes
Sharing the shade's poetic signature shape, the Arcs Vase and Arcs Candleholder are similarly sculptural, and the elegant scalloped frame becomes a spatial volume that encloses a vase or a candleholder.
The Arcs Vase is made from steel or mirror-finished stainless steel, and the Arcs Candleholder is crafted in zinc alloy, and comes in two different heights with various colour options that include pastel, bright and mirrored finishes.
Muller Van Severen was founded in 2011 by Belgian artist duo Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen. The couple has always been on an inspired quest for sculpturally interesting furniture objects, and their work sits somewhere between design and art, drawing on their passion for architecture and materials.
They have won countless awards and collaborated with prestigious museums worldwide (such as Vitra Museum, Centre Pompidou and Musée des Arts Décoratifs Paris) and international galleries (Galerie Kreo, Side Gallery, Valerie Traan Gallery).
For HAY, Muller van Severen has designed the Two-Colour Table, the Arcs Lamp Shades and the Arcs Candleholder and Vase.