Haelo approaches design differently. We believe the pleasures people experience when looking at art, listening to music, or enjoying good food should extend to our interactions with the objects and spaces we use and inhabit everyday. Design at its core is always about serving a need, but our goal is also to express the poetry in the ordinary. Why should a table be just four legs and a flat surface when it can say so much more about personal history, materials, gathering, space and culture? Where others see just a cabinet, a lamp, or a set of shelves, we see an opportunity.
The September/October 2007 edition of Chicago Home will include a detailed profile on Helen Maria Nugent and Haelo Design.
Helen Maria Nugent will be the Visiting Designer in Residence at Jacksonville University’s state-of-the-art Glass Institute in late September, 2007. She will be working with master glassblowers and technicians to create a series of functional objects with metallic surfaces and layers of reflection. We’ll post these new projects right here.
Malevich, a vibrant blue acrylic cabinet by HAELO Design is featured in the July/August 2007 edition of Chicago Home. Take a look.