The first piece of furniture Kym Ellery designed began life as an earring. Like much of the Perth-born designer’s fashion work, it was oversized, sculptural and slightly surreal: a piece of jewellery stretching towards architecture. Years later, as she began contemplating objects for the home, Ellery found herself leafing back through the archives of her now-defunct namesake fashion label. That earring kept drawing her eye.
And in time it became the inspiration for a 2.6-metre floor lamp that she called Moulin – French for “mill”, as in a pepper or coffee grinder. It’s made of polished metal and has a pivoting arm that moves in a slow, graceful arc above a room like a kinetic sculpture. Where pearls once hung from the original earring, hand-blown glass globes now emit a soft glow.
Gift articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
