Two Parts

Made of a little hardware and a lot of software, Two Parts is a design realization machine. It converts ideas into real life products and moves them around the world. Like most machines, it evolves with technology in hopes of increasing its capabilities while shrinking in physical size and required man-hours. Two Parts was built by Christo Logan to support his design habit.

Christo learned code to make websites and CAD to make Battlebots. He became an architect because architects think they can design anything. He worked in HK, NYC, SF, SH and SZ on master plans, buildings, interiors, installations, and products while teaching tennis camps, cello lessons, and architecture and urban design graduate courses. He dropped everything to build Two Parts.

In 2016, Two Parts’ 3D printed ceramic pendants won the Good Design Award and top honors from Blueprint Magazine, Architectural Record, World Interiors News, Exhibitor Magazine, IFDA, IDA and ICFF.

In 2017, due to the production limitations of additive manufacturing and assembly in a spare bedroom, Two Parts began reinventing the pendants using new materials and mass manufacturing processes.

In 2019, Two Parts launched its second generation pendants. Playing off the original shapes, the new series expands its optical palette by casting premium polymers of varying opacities.

Just an innocent ring-shaped aura, the Oxygen pendants aim to please. Its effulgent inner void emanates good vibes that reflect and refract within its clear encasement to reveal overtones of light at the edges. Layers of ivory polycarbonate and aluminum are encased in a chrysalis of glassy acrylic with the entire seraphic construction welded together ultrasonically.

Unlike its shy brother, the Lithium pendants considers itself the shining four-point star of the group. Its bottom half takes on a uniform radiance as it magnanimously bestows its light down onto its subjects below. An alabaster heart of translucent polycarbonate resides within a stretched bubble of clear acrylic, both of which are sealed shut via ultrasonic welding.

Calcium is the bashful twin of Lithium. Despite its conspicuously outstretched arms, this four point star chooses to shine upwards so as to not impose upon those below. The milky white glow north of its equator, care of an ultrasonically welded polycarbonate shell, is refracted by a clear acrylic enclosure as if coated by an aqueous membrane.

The devious Hydrogen purports to be a simple spherical shell. But when pressed, its interior becomes a fully illuminated hollow with no discernable light source, subverting the exterior’s presumed prominence. Oppositional surfaces or not, the fixture is cast as a seamless resin unibody with a matte finish that is sanded and painted four times inside and out.

Helium has a split personality. Though hard edged on the outside, it’s a softy on the inside. Its exterior facets seem to shift from every angle while a single curvaceous surface forms an interior that shines in its entirety. Despite dueling identities, the fixture is cast as a seamless resin unibody with a matte finish that is sanded and painted four times inside and out.