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Ross Gardam Creates New Pavilion Space & Unveils Ross Gardam Editions
The Pavilion | Volume One
A new digital space created by Ross Gardam to exhibit the brand’s expanding portfolio.
Unveiling the Pavilion 2023, a digital space to exhibit the brand’s expanding portfolio of furniture and lighting. Set amongst the dense Australian bushland, the imagined space exists between the physical and digital, offering an open-ended exploration of the nature of beings, objects and place—and how they all connect.
Created in tandem with Melbourne-based digital agency Mr. P, the Pavilion enables people to transport themselves to a spatial experience that defies time and place, showcasing an array of original ideas that question convention. Expanding on the digital space, the Pavilion can also be a vehicle to collaborate with other creatives as the brand releases new collections annually. The inspiration behind the Pavilion stems from Gardam’s long-standing fascination with brutalist architecture. In particular, the honesty and monolithic sense of grandeur.
“I am always enamoured by brutalist structures, the volume and scale of what typically is a singular gesture in form. This informed many of my products and was an easy choice as a point of inspiration for the Pavilion.”
As a space providing scale and form for staging Gardam’s designs, careful consideration was given to curating the furniture and lighting inside – including the journey to discover them. Reflecting Gardam’s belief that objects are not meant to exist in isolation, but rather in relation to ourselves and our surroundings.
To this end, the interior consists of four rooms with interconnected views to one another, as well as to the internal courtyard and the exterior. This simultaneous view of each adjacent space adds to the intrigue, triggering curiosity for people to explore the entire interior, leading out to the Australian landscape.
The limited edition Hemera Table Lamp, available in deep green (photos by Haydn Cattach).
Alongside the Pavilion, Ross released a limited edition of the Hemera Table Lamp made from a signature Accorsi-honed marble in a deep green.
Powerful in its simplicity of form, the apt release of only three pieces is inspired by brutalist architecture. The two solid circular volumes intersect with no overtly visible light source, creating a striking desktop monolith and a lighting device of refined functionality. Hemera Accorsi is a collaboration with New Volumes.
The Hemera series is powerful in its simplicity of form, reminiscent of the distinct elements of brutalist architecture that dominated 60 years ago. The two solid circular volumes intersect with no overtly visible light source, creating an impressive desktop monolith and a lighting device of refined functionality. Hemera’s body is meticulously crafted entirely from Elba marble with a singular machined champagne element connecting the elements. The entire product consists of four separate elements each connected by the marbles own weight.
