122 LIGHT + TECH


THE DESIGN of lighting products certainly doesn’t lack diversity at the moment. There will always be familiar tropes but there is a high degree of experimentation whether in technology, materials or form, as demonstrated by the following luminaires, all fresh from Milan’s Salone del Mobile. Like most design, they inevitably reflect our current preoccupations and thinking: the facility, flexibility and control that technology allows, and in the face of that technology, a deepening preoccupation with traditional techniques, the handcrafted and the natural world.


FLOS Oplight by Jasper Morrison


Jasper Morrison hopes that Oplight looks like ‘the most obvious, definitive shape a wall light could be’. Morrison’s Glo-ball has become one of Flos’s most iconic luminaires – and it has a few – and in some ways it was a starting point for the main element of Oplight, which became a progression of what he was trying to achieve with the original luminaire. It looks, says Morrison, like ‘an even more flattened outline of Glo-ball’. When Morrison took the Bauhaus ball lamp and gave it an oval shape, he made the shape adhere as closely as possible to the light source but was constrained by the size of the lamp, which still had to be located inside the diffuser. LEDs have allowed him to go further in reducing the object to a minimum. But the fitting is just as much about performance as form, its carefully considered construction and optics allowing it to illuminate a room rather than being a


mere route marker. Its LED board is covered with a clear, ridged panel that deflects the light out at an angle away from the wall. The surface treatment of the diffuser, and the special design of the interior, control the emission by optimising the light effect on the wall and its distribution towards the ceiling. The raised edge of the diffuser also intercepts part of the light emitted and illuminates uniformly, highlighting the perimeter of the lamp to viewers from below. Oplight is designed to be future-proof, conceived not only for longevity but also to be completely recyclable at end of life. Among several sustainable manufacturing features, no glues or toxic materials are used, and parts are separable for individual replacement or recycling. The fitting comes in two sizes (16W/1,290lm and 25W/ 1,919lm), both 2,700K CRI 90, and four finishes: textured white, textured metallic gray, textured anthracite and satin black. flos.com


OCCHIO Mito Aura


The original award-winning pendant version of Mito has been expanded with ceiling-mounted and wall versions. The ring-shaped luminaire with its characteristic gap in the perimeter has high quality (CRI 95) independently controlled uplight and glare-free downlight. It is also colour tunable, allowing a shift from warm to cool white light. Changes in colour temperature or light level can be preset, or effected


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