The Melbourne-founded brand is best known for its plant-based, science-led skin and haircare formulations, housed in simple apothecary-style amber bottles.
To call it a beauty brand feels a little like a disservice however. Well-considered design and aesthetics has always been to the brand, that also makes evocative and moody fragrances, pet-care and body products.
For example, each one of its hundreds of store locations around the world is unique, designed to integrate and enhance the local environment, and largely created by local designers and architects.
So while you’re travelling and need to top up on your Parsley Seed Cleanser or Resurrection Hand Balm, hitting up the local boutique feels like a destination in its own right.
With this in mind, it feels natural for the brand to extend further into design with this new development.
The lamp is hand-made in brass and frosted glass, its name play on the French words ‘‘à poser’ meaning ‘to be placed,’ or ‘to be installed’,
Designers worked to evolve an idea of reinterpreting something that normally goes unnoticed. They honed in on an aluminum tube, usually used to develop some of the brand’s formulations, transforming it by chopping it through and scaling it up, resulting in its unconventional proportions: a diameter of 50 centimeters for a height of just 36 centimeters.
A limited work of art, each brass plinth was cast in a German, family-run foundry where techniques have been passed down from one generation to the next since 1974. Atop the plinth, gentle light is emitted from within a mouth-blown glass crown, shaped by the artisans in Veneto, Italy.
The Aposē lamp was designed by Aesop’s in-house architects and presented at the Milan fair in a dramatic installation called the ‘Factory of Light.’ The squat form was joined by two other lighting designs – upcoming floor and ceiling accompaniments – set among a sea of 10,826 amber bottles, a nod to the brand’s iconic packaging.
Preorders for the limited-edition lamp are available of a dedicated site, apose.aesop.com and won’t be available in stores at this stage.
