Published on: May 15, 2009

The group of three designers  Sven Jonke, Christoph Katzerand and Nikola Radeljkovič was formed in 1999. They have exercised their talents in a wide specter of design area ever since.

Two members studied at the school of Design/Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb, while Katzler studied at High school for applied arts in Vienna.

For Use stands for product design. Interiors, exhibitions, public spaces, set design and so on are realized under the name Numen.

This is one of their projects called Numen Light. Here is some info from the Numen group:

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What exactly are Numen-objects, structures made out of two-way mirrors and light, and what medium do they belong to?

This research began in an unfinished project for the St Etienne Biennial that was meant to present the idea of the grid as formal principle. Then came a radical experiment for the set design for Dante’s Inferno as directed by Tomaž Pandur.

Subsequently, the project went on into the development of lighting units. In the version of today, what we have is a series of objects that derived from an investigative and analytical as well as a rational approach to design (…).

Lightobjects

This objects are based on the same principle like the huge set design we did for the National Theatre in Madrid (the play: Infierno by Dante Alighieri). Face to face mirrors provide theoretically infinite reflections. Utilizing “spy-glass”, also known as “see through mirror”, the viewer can see the infinity from outside. This material is mostly used for peep shows and line ups in police stations. The inner space is defined with luminous stripes positioned along all the inner edges of the parallelepiped, resulting in an illusion of endless light grid. Small dimensions of the object enhances the feeling of immense depth.