AARO CEILING

Simon, born in Arnsberg, set up his studio

in Hamburg after completing his studies at

the " School of Art ".

There he discovered the freedom, autonomy

and responsibility to be a designer. " Here's your

workshops, here's a pen, go on then. " This taught

him everything he needed to know about form,

materials, processes and most importantly: the

context. " If you don't know why you are doing

what you are doing, don't bother doing it at all. "

The starting point of AARO was a gesture. A

movement. He wanted to create an as fluid motion

as possible, which immediately lead him to the

sphere. A sphere has so many fantastic attributes.

With a sphere as a joint they are no limited directions,

it has no left or right, no top or bottom. So

with the sphere as the defining element of this

piece, everything else " revolved " around it. The

geometry, the balance, the friction. It all comes

down to the sphere, visually pointing at it. The end

result is an object that seems to be moved by the

wind. It revolves effortless around it's centerpiece,

like planets orbiting around each other.

With AARO, inspired by Aaron's rod, the magician

Simon Schmitz makes his lamp levitate.