Onera Mnini by Mnima, Solid Aluminum Desktop Sculpture, Pen, Pencil Holder

mnima llc designs and manufactures bespoke lighting and other well-considered objects. With a background in art, engineering and technology, founder and principal Steve Holzgraefe leads the company in its mission to produce goods that will become lifetime artifacts. All of our products are made in the greater Minneapolis - St. Paul metropolitan area. Driven by a strong sense of place, our design language is particularly informed by the Nordic heritage and culture endemic to our home state of Minnesota. For those who appreciate subtle form and quiet detail, mnima offers a delicate interplay of soft light and sharp shadow. Crafted with mellow precision, each piece from mnima complements well-appointed rooms with graceful poise and sublime restraint. A natural accompaniment for tranquil spaces, lighting from mnima speaks in hushed but captivating tones. In helping to gently curate modern surroundings, our diffuse profiles reward, but do not require your attention. We differ from most in that we start with large billets of aluminum and remove that which is not a light. Our fixtures are realized much in the same way sculptors carefully reveal figures embedded in monolithic blocks of stone. With an eye towards refined simplicity and balanced asymmetry, each brushed metal body stands on its own as an objet d’art even when not lit. The addition of discreet, indirect illumination provides the ideal counterpart to our minimal shapes and surfaces.