Tribes TossB
Inspired by the ‘Calumet’ sacred pipes smoked by the indigenous tribes of North America, Tribes is a family of pendant luminaries with a graphic and minimalist design. Equipped with two direct and one indirect LED spot modules, it is manufactured in two versions - individual and the triple.
Basie DelightFULL
Basie is a vintage mid-century pendant lamp that brings you a timeless design. Featuring a gold plated body and a matte white shade this white chandelier creates a vintage style that is perfect for any design project. With an elegant and alluring finish it adds a subtle elegance and classic, sophisticated style to a room.
Pine Davey Lighting
The Pine wall light is the latest in Davey Lighting’s Art Deco-inspired collection. Combining handblown opal glass and hand-cast bone china and brass,it introduces a 1920's flavour to Davey Lighting's timeless, utilitarian style. Available in two sizes of pendant, the Pine collection is rated IP44 for use in bathrooms and outdoors.
Asteria VITA
Born at the crossroads of design, technology and craftsmanship, Asteria echoes a design from the future, for the future. The lampshade incorporates built-in LED technology in a sleek, minimalist shape and embodies the perfect blend of straight masculine lines and a graceful feminine silhouette
Flora Nulty Bespoke
A spiral of light is formed from 24 petal-shaped acrylic shades, which gently cascade through the three-storey stairwell. The shades are attached to fine cables, which in turn are fixed to a polished nickel double-frame circular structure at the top of the house. Gold leaf has been hand-applied to each shade.
Kyoto Dowsing & Reynolds
Reminiscent of a cut glass crystal tumbler and just like cut crystal, each surface reflects light slightly differently to create a plethora of grey tones. In addition, this grey geometric light shade has a slight texture to it which somehow makes it look, and feel, more up-market. Available in grey, black or white.
Post Earnest Studio
Post is based on a single, LED light source, which can be attached (alone or in multiples) to one of four cylindrical steel armatures, designed for the table, floor, ceiling and wall. The sources are fastened with a magnetic connection, allowing them to be arranged in an unlimited number of positions and orientations.
V Lamp Louis Jobst
Composed from, a cone, a sphere and a triangle. Their proportions are carefully judged to create a harmonious formation, with each shape delicately balanced upon one another.
The solid glass ball appears to be balancing as it weighs down on top of the ‘V’ cut base, reminiscent of architectural forms.
Galatea Jamie Iacoli
Inspired by the story of Acis and the sea-nymph Galatea which appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses,this pendant light is comprised of handmade brass, copper or chome plated steel or powder coated fixture and a handblown glass globe with a choice of blush or smoked glass in a variety of opacities.
Slamp presents rechargeable Clizia Table Light
(Italy) - This botanical inspired, cordless table light can be moved with ease, reinventing endless areas inside a space.
The floral table light brings soft illumination to a dinner, an early bedside wake-up, or a warm bath. It is a perfect centrepiece and can be choreographed in numbers along an imperial table setting for an impressive and elegant focal point.
A fitting decoration for professionals looking to give a romantic, glam touch to their téte-a-téte events held on balconies or cafés and restaurants.
Star designer Michael Young to open 100% Design 2017
(UK) - 100% Design, today announced its talks programme, bringing design heavyweights and expert industry insight to Olympia London. The show will be opened by leading designer Michael Young, who appears in conversation with newly appointed 100% Design Content Editor design journalist Max Fraser. Young will also present his new Roxanne seats for the iconic Italian furniture brand Gufram, which have been inspired by The Police’s song of the same name and influenced by Seventies disco décor.
Each day thought leaders from across the design industry will deliver agenda setting keynotes, with prolific British product designer Lee Broom (Thursday 21 September), artist and industrial designer Ross Lovegrove (Friday 22 September) and interior designer Naomi Cleaver (Saturday 23 September) all featuring. Alongside these individual talks, which take place in conversation with Max Fraser at 11am each day, are panel discussions exploring trends in contemporary design and speculating on its future.
For full listings visit: http://www.100percentdesign.co.uk/whats-on/talks-with-100-design#/
Ateliar MEL
Ateliar MEL designs and manufactures high quality contemporary light fittings that blend modern digital techniques with traditional glass craftsmanship. Co-founder Maria Ruiz Pardo talks to darc about the complexities of working with glass.
Atelier MEL studio designs high quality contemporary light fittings that blend modern digital techniques with traditional glass craftsmanship. The studio brings together digital designers, engineers, architects and artisans with a single goal: rethink the glass craftsmanship to take it one step further.
Launched at the end of 2013 in Spain, the studio’s co-founders Maria Ruiz Pardo and Roberto Molinos met while studying architecture at Barcelona University in Spain and while they approach the field from different perspectives – Pardo enamoured with the design aspect and Molino more interested in the technological side – the idea of working together was appealing and something they toyed with for some time.
Having watched a live glass blowing demonstration during Noche de los Museos (the annual museums night) in Molino’s hometown of Cartagena, the duo saw an opportunity to reinvent the trade and create pieces suited to current design and fabrication trends.
Pardo tells darc: “To us glass is magic, it’s an ancient material that requires highly skilled artisans to work with it. The process has changed very little throughout history, but we thought it had great potential to be re-invented and enriched with the introduction of digital design technology.
“When we first began working with glass the idea of introducing light came really quickly. It just seemed natural to add light to the recipe; it’s the only element that at its best can show the transparency, translucency, brightness or reflection of the artisan pieces. Most of our designs have a natural inspiration, waves on the ocean, comets in the sky, and the geometry behind natural structures. The glass components of DUNA for example, are composed by softly curved rounded glass pieces assembled following a triangular pattern, while LOTO uses flower shaped glass pieces assembled on a square grid - interpretations of Gaudi’s famous ornamental pieces.”
In some of the studio’s latest designs Atelier Mel hs begun to separate blown glass pieces from the light sources, projecting shadows on the surfaces around, mimicking the effect of light in contact with water.
“Glass is a transparent liquid that modifies the direction of the light rays due to the natural imperfections of the artisan pieces,” Pardo explains.
Utilising their multidisciplinary team Atelier MEL is able to think outside of the box and approach working with glass in a new, fresh way, including the client in the design process.
“Anyone can play with our online tool MEL Composer to create their own unique design,” says Pardo. “Our collections are predesigned open concepts, each has its own glass shape and assembly pattern and is adapted to each client’s requirements, while bespoke projects are concepts we develop for a particular space.
“The first step of our process is the design of the glass components using Rhino3D, the shape is then translated into the physical world through digital fabrication. With the printed shapes we fabricate ceramic moulds to finally fuse flat sheets of artisan glass on top, the metallic lattice that holds the glass pieces is also digitally designed and fabricated. All of our collections are made with thermoformed glass, for the bespoke projects we can use blowing, torch, engraving and fusing techniques.”
Artisan glass techniques are extremely complex and the fabrication cost is very high compared to other materials so the team at Atelier MEL combated this issue by making their own adaptive mould that can be configured in more than 80 different ways to create 80 different shapes.
“Being able to extract an entire collection of complementary shapes from one single mould is a huge improvement. The process of crafting the glass components requires a lot of time and attention but we are able to optimise all the other processes necessary to create a bespoke piece. Using digital technologies we can create open concepts that can be studied in real time working hand-in-hand with the design team in charge of making the final decision. The fabrication of the structural components is also made using technology we have in-house so this makes the process faster and cheaper and the designs more versatile.”
Despite the cost and complexity of the materials there is something to be said for its adaptability and historic beauty, a trait not lost on Pardo: “We can play with the entire transparency range of glass, from totally opaque to totally transparent. We also consider the impact of natural light on an object as a way to maximise its beauty throughout the day. It is possibly the only material that can offer that versatility. We can provide diffusion, reflection or transparency with one single material.
“Glass is all about transparency, translucency and reflection and those properties only make sense in combination with light. Glass and light are made for one another.”
