Klaus Begasse was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, and studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart. After working with architects in Germany and abroad, he founded his own interdisciplinary office in Stuttgart, covering architecture, product design and media design, and his work has received national and international awards in architecture, product and graphic design.
An architect’s eye for the garden
For Artemide he designs light for outside, and it shows his training: each piece is about how light meets the ground, a wall or a path.
Reeds (2010). Reeds gathers seven flexible, transparent rods on a black aluminum base, so tubes of LED light rise from the planting like grasses. The modular base lets several be grouped into larger compositions.
Cuneo (2013). Cuneo is a wedge that works two ways: set in the ground, it throws side light along a driveway or garden path; mounted on a wall, it becomes a wall washer, aimed up or down.
“Seven flexible, transparent PMMA rods create tubes of LED light flowing upwards.”
Artemide, on Reeds
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Sources: LoftModern product listings for Artemide designs by Klaus Begasse, including the Artemide notes quoted in them; designer biographies published by Novo Ambiente and Brink Light.