Succession
Reclaimed supermarket light fixtures, steel, car lacquer, electrical components, 2024
Golden Gate I, 77 x 168 x 17 cm, Golden Gate II, 154 x 168 x 17 cm

Altherr/Weiss discovered an unexpected opportunity: a supermarket was discarding a large stock of industrial lighting. Initially asking for a few, they were told it was all or nothing—and they had until 4 p.m. to decide. They took them all.

Some lights now brighten their Zurich studio, but the surplus sparked new ideas. Recontextualized with bespoke elements, the lamps became sculptural light pieces—hybrid lanterns reminiscent of glowing financial district cityscapes and faceted metallic crystalline forms.

Succession bridges redundant utility and reinterpretation, merging traces of the past with a sense of future nostalgia and quiet transformation.