ONU SERIES SABU STUDIO
The Onu floor light and Onu pendant light, handmade by Melbourne-based furniture company Sabu Studio, have been shortlisted in the lighting design category of the 2022 Dezeen Awards. The studio combines traditional woodworking techniques and contemporary design, with the ambition of reconnecting urban interiors with the natural world. ‘The minimal and elegant designs aim to bring a sense of the natural world into interior spaces through form and symbolism,’ says Sabu founder Samuel Burns. ‘The designs are formed around the notion of divergence, a glimmer of light between the trees.’
According to the luminaire type, the wood – a choice of Tasmanian blackwood, American oak ash, American walnut and black American oak – is split in different ways to reveal and create the light source. The two halves are constructed using the bent lamination technique, and then subsequently formed and shaped using a router.
The standard colour temperature of the light is a warm white 3000K, but other options – 2700K, 3500K, 4000K, 5000K – are available on request.
After experimenting with a number of prototypes, the studio devised an internal fixing concealed in the timber, allowing the luminaire to be disassembled should the need arise and the LEDs to be replaced while preserving the seamless design.
The depth of the pendant is 1,500mm while the floor light is 2,280mm high. A third design, the Onu Duo pendant (2,000mm wide and 680mm deep), is suspended from two points using flex cable. The floor light has an inline dimmer switch, and the pendants can also be installed with a dimmer.
‘I believe even the act of using a natural material, like timber, provokes enough connotations of the natural landscape, and in turn introduces it into interior spaces,’ says Burns.
sabustudio.com
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