In 2012 Eliasson founded the social business Little Sun that produces solar lamps for off-grid communities, and in 2014 he and architect Sebastian Behmann founded Studio Other Spaces, an office for art and architecture.
Eliasson’s interest in polyhedrons, spheres and curves – the ongoing geometric investigations he has pursued for years with his studio team – stems from a desire to create alternatives to the dominant orthogonal thinking of modern architecture, art, and design, to find forms that can help counteract the numbing of our senses. This concern for the emotional and physical effects of our surroundings is at the core of the OE Quasi that Eliasson has conceived for Louis Poulsen.
"It could be from outer space or the bottom of the ocean."
Olafur Eliasson on the OE Quasi Light in Wallpaper, May 2019