About
DONIS is an international studio of architecture, urbanism, research, industrial design, and art. The studio has won several international prizes, including the Dubai Frame, selected as the first-prize winner from 926 proposals in an international competition regulated by UNESCO-UIA; the first prize for the National Palace of Justice in Paris; and the winning design for a new landmark for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games at the City of London. DONIS designs, develops, and builds projects across a wide range of scales and programs, consistently pursuing innovative, sustainable, and socially engaged architecture. DONIS was founded by Fernando Donis, Mexican Dutch architect who received his Master’s degree from the Architectural Association in London through the Design Research Laboratory (DRL), where he studied under Patrik Schumacher and Brett Steele. He also received a PhD in Architecture from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), through the doctoral research program The City as a Project, led by with Pier Vittorio Aureli. His doctoral research, FRAME, is a five-chapter study of the archetype of the frame and its role in the architectural and urban history and culture of Mexico. Following his studies at the Architectural Association, Fernando Donis worked closely with Rem Koolhaas as an Associate at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) for nine years, from 2001 to 2009. During this period, he was the main designer of the CCTV Headquarters in Beijing, among numerous other architectural projects and masterplans. He also collaborated with AMO, OMA’s research and design branch, contributing to research projects concerning the European Union. Fernando Donis has taught at the Berlage Institute and the Academy of Architecture in Rotterdam, as well as at Universidad Iberoamericana and Universidad Anáhuac in Mexico, integrating architectural research, design, and urbanism across multiple scales. His work and career have received international recognition. In 2011, CNN Expansión selected him as one of the 30 most promising and influential people in Mexico. In 2015, Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs selected him as one of the country’s most creative Mexicans living abroad.
The lamps celebrate two concurrent
projects by DONIS—one built, one theoretical. On one hand, the new landmark of
Dubai, the Dubai Frame, a project that frames the past and future of the city.
On the other, the Frame PhD research, an urban-historical study of the
archetype of the frame in Mexican culture.
As art objects, the lamps translate
these ideas into the domestic and office scale, framing interior space and
illuminating the everyday.
$2000Є
A thin abstraction of the Dubai Frame’s
golden rectangle—the ratio found ubiquitously in nature, the human body, and
architecture. This minimal frame delineates and illuminates any interior.
MATERIALES
Latón
TÉCNICO
52 x 85 cm
VOLTAJE
110 V
COLOR
Dorado
CABLE
2 m PCV negro
HECHO EN MÉXICO
$3000Є
A kinetic desk lamp that adapts to
multiple personal uses. It disassembles the golden rectangle into versatile
spatial positions.
MATERIALES
Latón
TÉCNICO
22.9 x 37 cm
VOLTAJE
110 V
COLOR
Dorado
CABLE
2 m PCV negro
HECHO EN MÉXICO
$2000Є
A kinetic desk lamp that adapts to
multiple personal uses. It disassembles the golden rectangle into versatile
spatial positions.
MATERIALES
Latón
TÉCNICO
52 x 52 x 85 cm
VOLTAJE
110 V
COLOR
Dorado
CABLE
2 m PCV negro
HECHO EN MÉXICO
$2000Є
An elongated frame that reaches any tabletop,
while testing the limits and slender beauty of the golden rectangle.
MATERIALES
Latón
TÉCNICO
16.1 x 1.61 cm
VOLTAJE
110 V
COLOR
Dorado
CABLE
2 m PCV negro
HECHO EN MÉXICO
$2000Є
In contrast to the Oblique, the
Fragmented lamp dismantles the frame through a quasi-explosion of movement and
multiple directionalities. Like the Incomplete, it combines a linear LED bar
with a focal point to create two lighting scenarios.
MATERIALES
Latón
TÉCNICO
50 x 50 x 85 cm
VOLTAJE
110 V
COLOR
Dorado
CABLE
2 m PCV negro
HECHO EN MÉXICO
$2000Є
An open golden section that provides
light through a linear LED bar—like the rest of the series—while creating a
focal point for art.
MATERIALES
Latón
TÉCNICO
60 x 60 x 85 cm
VOLTAJE
110 V
COLOR
Dorado
CABLE
2 m PCV negro
HECHO EN MÉXICO
$2000Є
An implosion of the golden rectangle.
The lamp projects light both upward and downward, rediscovering the spatial
power of the oblique.
MATERIALES
Latón
TÉCNICO
38 x 80 x 50 cm
VOLTAJE
110 V
COLOR
Dorado
CABLE
2 m PCV negro
HECHO EN MÉXICO
$2000Є
An abstraction of a possible future icon
for Mexico City. The lamp commemorates the 700th anniversary of the founding of
Tenochtitlan through the language of the frame.
MATERIALES
Latón
TÉCNICO
20 x 20 x 60 cm
VOLTAJE
110 V
COLOR
Dorado
CABLE
2 m PCV negro
HECHO EN MÉXICO
$2000Є
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MATERIALES
Latón
TÉCNICO
50 x 50 x 161.8 cm
VOLTAJE
110 V
COLOR
Dorado
CABLE
2 m PCV negro
HECHO EN MÉXICO
The lamps celebrate two concurrent
projects by DONIS—one built, one theoretical. On one hand, the new landmark of Dubai, the Dubai Frame, a project that frames the past and future of the city.
On the other, the Frame PhD research, an urban-historical study of the
archetype of the frame in Mexican culture.
As art objects, the lamps translate
these ideas into the domestic and office scale, framing interior space and
illuminating the everyday.
$2000€
A thin abstraction of the Dubai Frame’s
golden rectangle—the ratio found ubiquitously in nature, the human body, and
architecture. This minimal frame delineates and illuminates any interior.
MATERIALES
Latón
TÉCNICO
52 x 85 cm
VOLTAJE
110 V
COLOR
Dorado
CABLE
2 m PCV negro
HECHO EN MÉXICO
$2000€
Rotated 90 degrees from top to bottom,
the golden rectangle becomes both orthogonal and curvilinear, distorting its
form according to the viewer’s perspective.
MATERIALES
Latón
TÉCNICO
52 x 52 x 85 cm
VOLTAJE
110 V
COLOR
Dorado
CABLE
2 m PCV negro
HECHO EN MÉXICO
$2000€
An elongated frame that reaches any tabletop,
while testing the limits and slender beauty of the golden rectangle.
MATERIALES
Latón
TÉCNICO
16.1 x 1.61 cm
VOLTAJE
110 V
COLOR
Dorado
CABLE
2 m PCV negro
HECHO EN MÉXICO
$2000€
In contrast to the Oblique, the Fragmented lamp dismantles the frame through a quasi-explosion of movement and multiple directionalities. Like the Incomplete, it combines a linear LED bar with a focal point to create two lighting scenarios
MATERIALES
Latón
TÉCNICO
50 x 50 x 85 cm
VOLTAJE
110 V
COLOR
Dorado
CABLE
2 m PCV negro
HECHO EN MÉXICO
$2000€
An open golden section that provides
light through a linear LED bar—like the rest of the series—while creating a
focal point for art.
MATERIALES
Latón
TÉCNICO
60 x 60 x 85 cm
VOLTAJE
110 V
COLOR
Dorado
CABLE
2 m PCV negro
HECHO EN MÉXICO
$2000€
An implosion of the golden rectangle.
The lamp projects light both upward and downward, rediscovering the spatial
power of the oblique.
MATERIALES
Latón
TÉCNICO
38 x 80 x 50 cm
VOLTAJE
110 V
COLOR
Dorado
CABLE
2 m PCV negro
HECHO EN MÉXICO
$2000€
An abstraction of a possible future icon
for Mexico City. The lamp commemorates the 700th anniversary of the founding of
Tenochtitlan through the language of the frame.
MATERIALES
Latón
TÉCNICO
20 x 20 x 60 cm
VOLTAJE
110 V
COLOR
Dorado
CABLE
2 m PCV negro
HECHO EN MÉXICO
$2000€
An abstraction of the CCTV Headquarters
in Beijing, designed by Fernando Donis for OMA, this floor lamp merges the
obliqueness of that iconic structure with the slender language of the Dubai
Frame series.
MATERIALES
Latón
TÉCNICO
50 x 50 x 161.8 cm
VOLTAJE
110 V
COLOR
Dorado
CABLE
2 m PCV negro
HECHO EN MÉXICO
$3000€
A kinetic desk lamp that adapts to
multiple personal uses. It disassembles the golden rectangle into versatile
spatial positions.
MATERIALES
Latón
TÉCNICO
22.9 x 37 cm
VOLTAJE
110 V
COLOR
Dorado
CABLE
2 m PCV negro
HECHO EN MÉXICO
