Hennessy - The Quest

“The Quest” is a unique, permanent light sculpture installed at the Hennessy headquarters in Cognac, France.

Designed by the London-based creative studio Marshmallow Laser Feast, it is composed of hundreds of crystal-like shards.

A robotic arm with a precision optics luminaire head moves inside the structure and illuminates each shard to reveal its structural “DNA” in the form of caustics, i.e. concentrated light patterns.

While most of the caustics are seemingly random, ten are specially created as a metaphor of the Master Blender’s quest in selecting 10 of 10,000 eaux-de-vie to be part of Hennessy Paradis Impérial.

For this unique art installation, we provided luminaire design, optical design, control design and control programming.

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Videos

The Quest: an art installation at Hennessy Paradis Imperial

The Quest : an artistic tribute to the Master Blender’s creation

Services

• Lighting design
• Lighting control design and programming
• Optical design
• Luminaire product design

Information and Credits

Year		2018
Client		Hennessy
Programme		Permanent light kinetic art installation
Location		Cognac, France
Designer		Marshmallow Laser Feast