Commonwealth Seltanica 3D model

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The tactile experience of landscape and moonscape resonates deeply, perhaps more so than anything else, with the Seltanica Lamps' formalist aesthetic in the modern era. Utilizing modeling software typically reserved for creating animal membranes in animation, the lamp's interior surfaces are an outcome of technological experimentation combined with age-old compositional rules that underpin desirable ornamentation. Typically, the performative aspects of intricate designs on ornate surfaces are dismissed as excessive, merely serving as extravagant symbols of excess. Meanwhile, have we designers sacrificed our proficiency and enjoyment in eschewing our obligation to create complex webs of interconnected details? The Seltanica Lamps aim to rekindle the rich interplay between smoothness and ornamentation. In stark contrast, the lamp's exterior maintains a sleek elegance rooted in simplicity. In contrast, the rusticated interior surfaces, fleecy and shaggy enough to obliterate any perception of rigidity, are perceived as soft and pliable textures. The Seltanica's interior originates from a sophisticated wet machine controlled by a skilled human hand. Despite its capacity for industrial reproduction with pinpoint accuracy ad infinitum, the lamp's inner surfaces diverge significantly from what we normally associate with machinic ideals - i.e., reduced, idealized components. Instead, the interior's dense texture is replete with varied and sensually charged fat and folds that warp light and shadow, positioned strategically to produce maximum impact under a soft white glow emanating from a frosted bulb.