MARSET
Konoha / George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg Konoha is a straightforward idea cleanly and elegantly executed. Designed for hotel rooms, it combines ambient and direct light in one fitting.
A simple, understated wall lamp features a shade over a spotlight that turns through 360°. The spotlight can be directed upwards, the beam deflecting off the shade interior to create warm, indirect ambient lighting. Alternativel, the spotlight can be focused
downwards, projecting a
beam of direct light, turning the fixture into a reading lamp.
The design is available in a range of colours, with neutral and organic shades. It could also be used as a reading lamp in waiting rooms, or provide a point of light in walkways, a wall lamp in restaurants, or a way to bring ambient lighting to hotel entrances.
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FLOS Superwire DANESE
Spettatori / Mimmo Paladino Spettatori is in a long line of arty lighting that allows the user to fiddle about with it and create their own compositions. Fashioned by sculptor and painter Mimmo Paladino, Spettatori represents the heads of spectators, at the cinema or theatre, illuminated by the show or projection in the darkness of the space.
Three or five-head profiles made of mould-cast glass in different colours are connected by a structural but pliable cable that powers the LEDs that backlight them.
The heads can be freely positioned, the cable connecting them shaped according to their arrangement on the surface to which they are attached.
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Flos’s Superwire is a distinct nod to the Art Deco period. A family of modular lamps designed by Formafantasma for Flos, the range ‘recalls the work of the great glass masters of the last century’. This is not pastiche, however. The aim was not artisan but an amalgamation of elegant and industrial. ‘We wanted to steer away from the idea of craftsmanship and get closer to an industrial aesthetic, albeit decorative, because this is a mass-produced lamp,’ says Formafantasma. ‘For this reason we chose planar, industrial glass and a geometric look, with the mechanical constituent elements – base, top and screws – remaining visible. That also serves to facilitate disassembly and replacement of the light source when necessary.’ So far available in table and pendant versions, the luminaires are made up of one or more hexagons of planar glass connected by an aluminium element. The source was specially developed by Flos, based on the filament in LED lamps, which recalls the filament in an incandescent bulb. A very thin, flat, soft, flexible LED strip measuring up to 1m, it emits a warm, homogeneous light along its entire length. The technical challenge lay in its atypical length (filaments are usually no longer than 30cm). An added virtue is that it can be easily removed for replacement and repair. The basic module is a hexagon that emits light along its length (45cm for the table model, 75cm for the others), the six sides formed by glass sheets that house three bright straws each. Each straw is a combination of three cylinders (two centerers with high diffusion eficiency and a borosilicate diffuser) inserted into each other. In the centre is the LED filament that allows 360° light emission. The glass sheets are held together at the base and in the upper part, by a hexagonal element in aluminium with large exposed steel screws. These two metal plates allow the multiple modules to be put together to create different versions.
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