Yanzi, designed by Neri & Hu for Artemide, mimics birds atop an aluminum branch. The collection will be available in North America at the end of this year.
Lighting to Lust After
Our latest favorite fixtures animate the room and tease the imagination.
BY LILY WAN June 29, 2017
Stickbulb’s aptly named Boom series features a brass core exploding with wood-spined bulbs. Select pieces in the collection are made from salvaged redwood water towers.
Emerald-blue and black stone pairs with brass hardware in Dark Moon, a collaboration between Pelle and antique shop–cum–jewelry brand Erie Basin.
Andrea Anastasio’s Filo for Foscarini proves that the parts of a lamp can be greater than their sum. The deconstructed fixture comes in eight color combinations.
Early 20th-century movements such as art deco and Bauhaus inspired Lantern 3 by Apparatus, in which a trio of porcelain shades hover around a tripartite brass structure.
Atelier de Troupe took West Hollywood’s early-1920s Schindler House as inspiration for a recent lighting series—though this result, the Zé pendant, could fit just as well in a Paris loft.
The Myriad chandelier by Gabriel Scott recalls natural forms, like branches or bioluminescent organisms, as much as it does fine jewelry.
For Lasvit’s Cipher collection, Yabu Pushelberg created a modular system that can be extended or multiplied for hospitality use, or kept simple for residential spaces.
The Revati collection by Iacoli & McAllister is named after a peripheral star in the Pisces constellation. The black, pink, or gray bulb make it feel all the more celestial.
In Avenue Road’s Mainkai floor lamp, designed by Sebastian Herkner, opaline shades recall buoys floating over a Spanish marble base.
Cirque, designed by Clara von Zweigbergk for Louis Poulsen, floats through a room like a hot-air balloon. The whimsical light comes in three sizes and colorways.
Christophe Mathieu’s latest design for Marset may be small, but its personality is mighty. The colorful Bicoca lamp is wireless and magnetized, suiting it to metal surfaces.
Photo: Johanna Seelemann.
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The Amsterdam-based Italian duo behind Formafantasma created their Delta collection as an exploration of light’s components: shadow, reflection, color, and space.
Delicate wire net is transformed into an elegant statement piece in Moooi’s Meshmatics chandelier, designed by Rick Tegelaar.
This ash wood console in Saint-Louis’s Folia collection, designed by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance, expands the use of light beyond a room’s walls and ceiling.
Cirque, designed by Clara von Zweigbergk for Louis Poulsen, floats through a room like a hot-air balloon. The whimsical light comes in three sizes and colorways.
A warm light emits from the cocooned Overlap pendants, designed by Michael Anastassiades for Flos. For him, the wonder of this design lies in its incomplete geometry.
In Light Guide Ring by Sonneman—A Way of Light, apricot or white interiors softly reflect illumination. Available in multiple configurations, the fixture’s highlight is its flexibility.
Blu Dot’s uncomplicated Perimeter table lamp wraps a cloth shade over powder-coated steel loops. It’s also available in black, gray, and blush pink.
As the follow-up to Estiluz’s semicircular Volta collection, Revolta brings the family full circle—literally. The piece is composed of rings that can be stretched with acoustic panels.
