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Spotlight Volumes by Lukas Peet

The Spotlight Volumes series was originally designed by Lukas Peet in 2010, With the table light being the newest addition to the series. Available in any pairing of the four available shade sizes allowing for 16 possible configurations. Featuring an energy efficient dim-able LED globe light bulb and billet machined Aluminum dimmer knob with subtile laser etched ‘AND” logo for easy indication of the level of light being emitted.

The standard surface finish is a textured matte powder coat, with decorative finishes available in anodized clear, black and gold. while the electrical cord wraps and knots around the fixtures midsection, communicating the restriction of the two joined halves. With a machined weighted base finished in felt.

Spotlight Volumes, by Lukas Peet

Acrobat Lights by Porcelain Bear

The Acrobat pendant luminaire series is a modular feature light available in various metal finishes with illuminated translucent porcelain arms supported by a suspended trapeze. Combining the elegant effortlessness of Brancusi’s Bird in Space with crisp Bauhaus simplicity, the Acrobat series references the precision of a death defying, skilled aerial performer’s graceful sky high contortions. Highly original in its execution, the Acrobat harnesses the latest LED technology to give a super energy efficient, warm glow to commercial or residential spaces requiring a point of focus and a high spec finish.

Acrobat Lights, by Porcelain Bear

Optunia Lights by Claesson Koivisto Rune for FontanaArte

The functionality of the Optunia lamp is based on the ability to tilt the light source around an axis in combination with a second movement, perpendicular to the first axis, to further affect the lighting angle. Each light disc’s one half is a glass diffuser and the other opaque, to make the lights mono-directional.

The discs are added on to each other and their movement is in the joint between the two. The first light disc is either fixed on a wall or ceiling socket disc, or a stem. One or two light discs give the user many ways and possibilities of directing the light. They also give an expression of something that is at once organic but also symbolic. Technical, yet friendly.

Optunia Lights, by Claesson Koivisto Rune, for FontanaArte

Yanzi Lights by Neri&Hu for Artemide

The activity of Neri&Hu is founded on constant research and the desire to work on the dynamic interaction of experience, detail, material, shape, and light, rather than adapt to stereotyped formulas. In a blend of tradition and innovation, Yanzi is a lightweight composition of graphic signs. Balanced structures, such as branches or perches, support multiple stylized figures to provide a variety of versions and qualities of light. They are iconic swallows with a brushed brass body, with their head like a white glass sphere enclosing light, either flying free or contained in glass cages. There is unique sensibility in matching warm and cold, essential yet refined materials. Yanzi is an open system, ideal for creating lightweight compositions and light landscapes that animate any space with an elegant poetic attitude.

Yanzi Lights, by Neri&Hu, for Artemide

HALO by Quentin de Coster

HALO is a table lamp created in collaboration with Christophe Genard, one of the last Belgian glass blowers. It’s pronounced glass body emphasizes the circular fluorescent light positioned at its center - An element which is regularly designed to be hidden in most lamps.
HALO’s geometric design is directly inspired by the standard light bulb; While being small enough to give off an impression of levitation.

HALO, limited edition (18 pieces + 3 AP), by Designer, for Quentin de Coster

Halo by Nichetto Studio

Stockholm is a city of candlelight, with candles illuminating countless venues and gatherings across the Swedish capital. Inspired by this, Luca Nichetto designed an oil lamp in hand-blown Murano glass. Comprising two connecting components, the lamp echoes the form of a wine glass, subtly suggesting the act of drinking. A coloured opaque base sits under a larger transparent top, which is available in several patterns. As well as being ornamental, these patterns transform the nature of the light emitted by the lamp. As the patterns overlap, they form complex motifs, granting the lamp a decorative quality that shines through even when the lamp is off.

Halo, by Nichetto Studio
Photography by Studio Pointer

Lines & Dots by Goula / Figuera

Lines & Dots is a pendant light fitting in which the light, its basic element, relinquishes all its importance to the material, the metal, in this particular case working as would a sculptor.

Lines & Dots has its origins in dozens of ink drawings. From those abstract silhouettes there emerged a series of eight shapes, given form using folding rods and soldered by hand by local craftsmen. Eight different modules which are combined using the cable as a pivot. Sculptural light fitting that creates a contrast between shadows and light, transparency and opacity, movement and immobility and whose source of light is an adjustable led, which gives off a warm light and incorporates state of the art technology.

Lines & Dots, by Goula / Figuera

The Birth Lamp by Satoshi Itasaka

Today, the loss of life and humanitarian suffering, such as racism and terrorism, is considerable. Besides, it is now possible to make human beings artificially. Considering those, it seems that the value of ‘life’ is transforming, and therefore, it is time to re-think about the ‘life’. This chandelier is inspired by the weak electrical current occur from an ovum at the very moment of the fertilization.

The Birth Lamp, by Satoshi Itasaka
Photography by Elly

Jurassic Light 117 by Studio Dessuant Bone

For Another Country’s 5 year anniversary exhibition The Dorset Series, during London Design Festival, Studio Dessuant Bone were invited to design a limited edition object inspired by the brands Dorset origins.

Jurassic Light 117 is inspired by the Jurassic Coast’s Durdle Door, an iconic landmark of the Dorset coastline. The cylindrical negative space created by this arch has been interpreted to create the simple shape that forms the light. Jurassic Light 117 employs Portland stone that carries impressions of fossils from the Dorset area – so acting as a constant reminder of the origins of the design.
Material: Portland Stone & Brass

Jurassic Light 117, by Studio Dessuant Bone

Reproduction of Taliesin 4 Table Lamp by Yamagiwa

Reproductions of original masterpieces from legendary architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Taliesin 4 Table Lamp, by Yamagiwa

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