Category: Ceiling lamp/Pendant

Area

No, it’s not a new iMac… This is Area, a table lamp designed by Milano based Habits Studio for Italian lighting manufacturer Luceplan.

The Area is packed with interesting features. It is a LED lamp, which is energy efficient, but which also allows for a beautiful flat design. The large white plexiglass surface disperses the light in a uniform way, but it is also backlit – yep: light from the front and the back.

And there’s more: with a series of aluminium supports you can easily turn the table lamp into a pendant, wall lamp, and even floor lamp.

Oh, and you switch it on and off via a touch sensor in the side of the frame. Sweet… (Thx, Jorge!)

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Nissyoku

Nissyoku, inspired by the astronomical phenomenon of the solar eclipse, is designed by Hungary based designstudio Igen. Igen was founded by Daniel Lorincz and Alberto Vasquez, both students Industrial design in Budapest.

The lens-shaped panels on both sides can move in multiple directions. You can easily adjust the direction and strength of the light by turning the panels, fixed on the lamp by magnets, in a preferred direction. You switch the light on and off by gently touching the metal ring in the middle.

Due to the clever design the lamp can be used as hanging chandelier, table or wall lamp. The lamp is fixed with a magnetic console and a metal ring. Using it as a wall lamp, the two panels are fixed to two metal rings, while using it as table lamp, the two panels are joined to each other. (Thx, Alex!)

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Crown

The pendant light prototype Crown, presented at the Light+Building 2010 – 11-16 April 2010 – is made by Berlin based design studio Formfjord, established in 2006 by Engineer Fabian Baumann and Designer Sönke Hoof. In addition to furniture, lighting and accessories, Baumann and Hoof enjoy working in various fields: “Each project holds inspiration for another. The more different the jobs, the more fruitful and unexpected the synergies are.”

The pendant lamps of the Crown series attract attention with their fascinating play of coloured light.

The lampshade is made of laser cut and canted in the accordant angles metal, put together by 2 screws at the 2 endings of the plate. The narrow openings for the light and gives the lamp its remarkable airiness. A filter lets the inside of the lamp shade shine in colour.

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Copperfield

This pendant, Copperfield, was named after the famous magician David Copperfield. Inspiration for the name came from the ‘magic box’ of glossy plexiglass inside the lamp, which creates an interesting mirror effect.

With its industrial look, this would look mighty nice over a dining table or snooker table.

Copperfield was designed by Maxime Szyf from Belgian design studio Dark. Interestingly, Szyf also works under the nickname Maximal Design ;-)

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Tear Drop

Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka gave us Tear Drop: a glass and aluminum pendant. Isn’t it angelic?

Yoshioka started as an apprentice to Shiro Kuramata and to Issey Miyake, but started his own his own design office in 2000. Since then, no less than 9 of his products made it into the MoMa collection. This includes the ToFU lamp and, yes: Tear Drop.

Tear Drops are produced by Japanese lighting manufacturer Yamagiwa to be used as pendants, but I’d put this on a table: I just want to hold them!

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LED chandelier

The LED chandelier is minimalist from several points of view.

First; the LED chandelier is a wonderful minimalist piece of lightning designed by George Simionopoulos and Erica Pecoskie, a.k.a. Group Two Design, from Toronto, Canada. The chandelier is made by casting a LED linear lighting strip into translucent resin. The fixture of the lights, made of 5 identical pieces radiate around the power supply, is the backbone of this beautiful lightning.

Second; using LED technology the chandelier is sustainable and is respectful for the environment. LED lights use less energy, are long lasting, are durable and are mercury-free.

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Hundreds Tens Units

Hundreds Tens Units is formed by designers Matt Bassett, David Horan and Tom Nelson.

This British threesome graduated from UK’s Coventry University last year. Their aim: to design and manufacture simple, beautiful and useful products utilising local resources and expertise.

Their portfolio is eclectic and full of surprises. Yay!

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