124 LIGHT + TECH
BOCCI 100
Vancouver-based Bocci, which specialises in glass, also focuses on highly individual, handcrafted products. Its new pendant light, 100, brings together multiple glass artists within the Bocci studio. Each fitting comprises molten glass bubbles that have been prepared individually, then ‘smashed’ together to produce unpredictable interlocking glass forms. ‘We’ve been developing new methods for making forms for many years and routinely cutting prototypes to learn about what’s happening inside [...] but it occurred to us that the act of cutting itself can be part of the work, not just a learning exercise,’ says Omer Arbel, the company’s creative director and
co-founder. ‘For 100, we use a diamond saw to cut swathes off the bubble amalgamations after they cool, exposing the most fascinating parts of the geometry.’
This process is quite complicated, according to Jay Macdonell, glass master at Bocci. ‘The combination of hot working and cold working requires intuition and skill in equal measure,’ he says. ‘There are also pragmatic considerations. To expose the inner geometry, the artists cut openings from several angles, while also addressing the hanging balance of the piece […] keeping in mind the central bubble must remain intact, as it becomes the diffuser for a light source.’
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ARTEMIDE Stellar Nebula by Big
As with most good lighting, Stellar Nebular is a simple concept, as airy and delicate as a soap bubble, which belies the skill required to create it. The family of suspended lamps – in three different sizes – combines artisan glass blowing with innovative finishing techniques. The glassmaker shapes the glass by blowing into a standard mould then softly reshapes the regular, basic outline to produce an individually handcrafted piece. The glass is then treated with a dichroic finishing process.
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Flexia by Mario Cucinella
There probably aren’t too many people familiar with the word papiroflexia, but to the uninitiated it is the art of papyrus folding and, more pertinently, the inspiration for a typically ingenious new luminaire from Artemide. Available in both pendant and wall versions, it combines an acoustic panel section with a transparent diffuser featuring the company’s patented Discovery technology which gives a uniform, glare-free emission. Flexia’s flexible wings have a rotation mechanism that moves from 0–15º and 30º, creating a variety of possible inclinations and positions.
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OAO WORKS
GIONA ANDREANI
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