By Peter Kenter
There’s nothing quite like getting a car sparkling clean in an automated car wash. Car owners who want to bring that experience into their fashionable homes have a champion in French designer Philippe Malouin, who designed the Dervish lamp to simulate the effects of a spinning car wash brush.
Philippe Malouin
Whirling dervishes
“While borrowing a friend’s car for the day, I decided to have it washed to show my gratitude,” he says. “I pulled into an automated car wash and, while inside, I couldn’t help but notice how the car wash brushes completely alter their shape from flimsy, drooping hair-covered rods to massive powerful beams. Could this quality of transformation be applied to the home sector? The car wash brushes go from limp to cones to beams. A lamp could use this whimsical feature to direct light from a tube of light to a cone to an open light source.”
Part lamp, part ceiling fan, the Dervish is available in Canada at Montreal’s Commissaires for £2,500 ($3,950).
