Contemplative Serenity: Shiro by Antoni Arola, Santa & Cole
Introducing Santa & Cole’s Shiro, a design by Antoni Arola from 1998. Shiro, which translates as “white” in Japanese, carries deep significance in the country’s philosophical tradition, evoking emptiness, honor, purity, and calm. Far from simply being the absence of colour, Shiro represents a void brimming with potential, an expression of contained energy. A spiritual openness that invites contemplation and discovery.
Designed for both indoor and outdoor settings, this lamp draws inspiration from the delicate relationship between nature and the architecture of “yukimi shoji”, traditional Japanese sliding panels that, from the intimacy of the interior, evoke the presence of the outside world.
“The contrast with the shapes of the plants led me to design a very rational, clean object: a cube made of louvers. The influence of traditional Japanese architecture is clearly present. They are, after all, true masters of the relationship between architecture and the garden.”Antoni Arola
Photography by: Jara Varela
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