Square in Circle

Established by Alesia Sirokina in 2020, Square in Circle is renowned for lighting designs that bring together the rigour of geometry with the poetry of the figure-in-motion. Dance and movement have informed many of Sirokina’s designs: the 1922 Bauhaus ballet by Oskar Schlemmer was an early inspiration for the brand, from which its first design emerged – the emblematic ‘Dance of Geometry’ – and it is a theme that continues to develop through her work. Playing with ideas of symmetry and asymmetry, flatness and depth, Square in Circle produces designs that are complex yet understated, using a pared-back vocabulary of shapes and materials. Each piece is an ever-changing composition with parts that seem to move in relation to the viewer, in a dance of sorts…