Shaped by interstellar inspiration
The designer Dakota Jackson has a long-established relationship with steinway & sons. For Jackson, the mysterious aura surrounding black diamonds inspired the name and silhouette of this masterpiece, while reflecting Lang Lang’s truly otherworldly performances, which inspired Jackson.
Watching Lang Lang play, Jackson witnessed the pianist’s dynamics: “a searing attack, so precise, almost like a stiletto, which is long, narrow and thin and so perfectly honed — and a stiletto’s job is to pierce the heart. And so, as I was witnessing Lang Lang, there was an element to the way his sounds and emotions literally pierced me.” This notion of the stiletto, topped with a diamond shape, evolved into the black diamond.