Here Comes the Sun

Whether at home, in the office or in a hotel, the first thing you do when you enter a room is reach for the light switch. This gives you control over the room, letting you employ light to create the right atmosphere for working, cooking or just relaxing, or to turn on the air conditioning. It puts us in the right mood for what we’re doing, helping us appropriate a place. ATMOSPHERE demonstrates this ability: technology and the JUNG product world are transformed into pure emotion, staged with perfect lighting from ERCO.

On their way out, visitors can symbolically take their own favourite switches home with them in the form of Post-it notes printed with motifs from the collection. The Post-its work without adhesive, adhering solely by adhesion to any smooth surface on which you ever wanted to test a switch interface.

The installation is deliberately designed to be temporary and sustainable: It will shortly set off on its travels to be reused elsewhere in the future. The sphere is a self-sufficient construction made of wooden panels that can be disassembled into three parts for safe transport. The idea is that ATMOSPHERE will not only travel around Milan, but will also light up special design events in JUNG showrooms around the world, such as Paris and London. This is why all the other components are deemed hand luggage: the silver wall and floor covering is lightweight coated paper (environmentally friendly Finnish sauna vapour barrier, to be precise), which is temporarily hung and rolled out, making larger installations superfluous.