Journal — 2026
On a small phrase, repeated after long nights, that quietly became a direction.
Late at night, when Marianna Christogianni and I were leaving the office to return to our homes, I would often tell her:
“I will go from the lights.”
It was a small phrase, repeated after long hours of work. The streets were quiet, most windows were already dark, and I chose my way home by following the illuminated roads.
At the time, it was almost a joke — a simple habit, nothing more. Yet the words stayed with me.
Years later, I began to understand why.
Light had slowly become part of the way I observed the world and approached design. It could reveal a form, soften its edges or completely change the atmosphere around it. It could make an object feel alive without asking for attention.
I became interested not only in designing lamps, but in shaping the relationship between light, objects and space. I wanted to understand how light moves through a form, how it escapes from it and how it reaches the people nearby.
Perhaps, during those late nights, I had already chosen my direction without knowing it.
I said I would go from the lights because they showed me the way home.
Today, they continue to show me the way forward.
— Harry Konstantinou, IDEA34