NORA DE RUDDER

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A floor lamp with a copper base and real wings of a goose that filter the light that impregnates the object with an elegant movement. Chandeliers with shells that diffuse their pearly luminosity through twisted post-modernist structures.

There is also a “Chinese lantern” made out of an extremely thin woven bronze web. She has also designed a stool for a bar in Ghent, made out of mahogany and steel. Its form is the extension of the natural curves of the human body. The sitting body, the line of the back and the stool itself are one. It is a sort of tribute to “the sitting being”. It was for this bar stool that Nora won an award at a competition organised by Fondexlor in Nancy (France).

When she decorates the window of a hat shop, she “sprinkles” it with very fine raindrops (glass and crystal pearls and tiny light bulbs), almost to remind us of the actual function of the hats sold. But with such a sense of poetry ! And while pure and solid design is not able to break loose from its progressive, praiseworthy but univocal creed, we almost have the great pre-war division: modernists engaged in the industrial mass production and artists-decorators, like Nora De Rudder, more attached to masterly made-to-measure objects.