The corridor of luxury couture, fine art, and furnishings known as the Miami Design District had a Walt Disney Beauty And The Beast moment this past holiday season, when London-based designer Philippe Malouin completed his temporary commission Speed of Light for the neighborhood’s development company Dacra. The installation was on view for a six-week period coinciding with Christmas and New Year’s.
Consider Speed of Light an urban-scale version of the animated film’s anthropomorphic candelabra, Lumiere: Located in the Design District’s pedestrian artery, Paseo Ponti, the piece included two tubular-steel assemblies, each comprising a roller coaster–like track connected by a pair of poles. A hardwired LED-illuminated globe loops around each track, ascending to its peaks via the remote-controlled motorized buggy to which it is attached and zooming around the descents by gravity.
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