Luminaries Inspired From Within
Pam Morris is a truly gifted artist who uses her intuition to turn metal, glass, and light into more than just a light fixture, but rather, an illuminated work of art. And the results are magnificent.
Slumped, blown, and cast glass combined with formed and cast metal are the elements she works with to create these avante-garde luminaries that defy the imagination’s boundaries.
“Light is an intimate experience and should be a pleasurable encounter,” is Pam’s philosophical approach to designing fixtures for her enviable list of clients located all over the world.
She says, “You can think of my work as very expensive light fixtures or very inexpensive works of art.” And when you see them, you know that they are indeed works of art, because, as with any great piece of art, she uses the magnetic attraction of light to evoke a visceral response.
Fire appears to be held by mankind, illuminated glass seems to float from the ceiling like a piece of paper blown by the wind, fire frozen in time, and autumn colored leaves fall, their last breath illuminated from within. These descriptions apply to just four types of light fixtures that Pam has designed. As poetic as the descriptions are, they pale in comparison to actually seeing them.
Fire appears to be held by mankind, illuminated glass seems to float from the ceiling like a piece of paper blown by the wind, fire frozen in time, and autumn colored leaves fall, their last breath illuminated from within. These descriptions apply to just four types of light fixtures that Pam has designed. As poetic as the descriptions are, they pale in comparison to actually seeing them.
Her studio is structurally well organized, but then there’s that sense of the chaos that’s necessary for true creative genius to emerge. And emerge it does!
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| Her iconic fixture is, well, a fixture at San Francisco's Postrio restaurant |
Looking at her small physique, you wouldn’t think that Pam casts the curved glass shapes herself in custom designed kilns, or bends metal, twists wire, and coaxes and cajoles otherwise unwieldy elements into shapes that defy logic, but she does and the results are stunning.
Stories about her work have been published in numerous magazines and are available to read on her web site.
Pam Morris Designs Exciting Lighting, Inc.
Sausalito, CA
415-846-6858
By appointment only
Photographs by Pam Morris Designs and Beryn Hammil, all used with permission.
