Lederam
Improved and perfected since its Milan preview in 2013, the Lederam family offers dimmable LED technology at mains voltage without the need for a transformer. Each contains 17W LED modules with an output of 1,300 lumen, which corresponds to approximately an 80W old linear halogen lamp.
LEDed B.
LEDed B. is the new LED version of the halogen lamp Incredible Bulb, designed in 2009. The LEDed B. is more minimalistic in design than its predecessor, offers the same luminosity and even saves energy. The LEDed B. is an ‘empty’ bulb without filaments that nonetheless ‘magically’ fills with light.
Clerkenwell Design Week returns..
Celebrating its fifth edition this year, Clerkenwell Design Week (20-22 May 2014) will again showcase the latest innovations by designers and manufacturers from the UK and around the world. Set against the historic backdrop of Clerkenwell, the three-day festival will be centred upon leading design showrooms in the neighbourhood, as well as four focused exhibitions at The Design Factory, Platform, Detail and Additions.
Companies such as Anglepoise, WORKSTEAD, Buster & Punch, Deadgood, Decode, Foscarini, Artemide, Holloways of Ludlow, Orsjo, Studio Italia Design and Vibia will be taking part in the Design Factory event at the Farmiloe Building.
MILAN 2014: Wonderglass collection
Experimental lighting design studio Wonderglass, revealed three ambitious new designs set in the beautiful Italian palazzo of the Istituto dei Ciechi.
Among them was Flow[T], a contemporary chandelier inspired by the colours of the Venetian lagoon and customisable to the tastes of each owner.
Shaped to mimic a fishing buoy, the pieces work as elegent solo pieces, or as a linear sculptural installation.
MILAN 2014: Lasvit E Motions
Lasvit E motions was a stunning collection of nine never before seen lighting installations by renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, and designers Maarten Baas, Michael Young, Arik Levy, Jan Plecháč and Henry Wielgus. For the first time the company also launched work by their art director, renowned Czech designer Maxim Velčovský.
Pieces included:
• Frozen by Maxim Velčovský, inspired by the transformation of water into ice.
• Kůra by Jakub Nepraš, representing a stream of information spreading through glass at lightning speed.
• Magnetic by Libor Sošťák, a piece whose movement suggests its glass component pieces are physically responding to the light.
• Alice, designed by Petra Krausoá, a kinetic piece which seeks to emphasise the common characteristic of glass and nature. Just as each tree - indeed each leaf - is unique, glass too is organic and unpredictable.
MILAN 2014: What were your lighting highlights?
darc is putting together a list of highlights from this year's Milan Salone. What lighting pieces and installations impressed you this year? If you're an interior designer and you visited the Salone and Fuorisalone this month, we want to hear your opinions.
Email your favourites to editor@darcmagazine.co.uk and we may include your views in the next issue of darc.
MILAN 2014: CITIZEN 'Light is Time' Chandelier
Japanese watchmaker CITIZEN has created an impressive installation at La Triennale di Milano as part of Milan Salone. Developed by Tsuyoshi Tane of DGT Architects, a renowned Paris-based architect, together with CITIZEN’s in-house design team, the piece comprises 80,000 'main plates' (the prime component part of all watches) suspended in mid air. Illuminated from above, the installation becomes a walk-through chandelier - a shower of components frozen in time.
The piece, inspired by the concept "Light is Time", celebrates the technology that converts light into energy to power CITIZEN watches.
The installation features lighting and sound design by Yutaka Endo of LUFTZUG.
www.citizenwatch-global.com
www.dgtarchitects.com
MILAN 2014: Moooi invite the world to a virtual tour
Moooi have created an online replica of their Milan showroom, allowing those time-poor, office-bound designers who can't make it over to Milan the chance to wander through Wanders' latest. As with their 2013 display, the collection is arranged as a set of scenes, here shown alongside the atmospheric photography of Massimo Listri.
You can take the tour online here or in person at the via Savona 56. Opening times:
Tuesday 8 April – Saturday 12 April from 10.00 till 21.00hrs
Sunday 13 April from 10.00 till 17.00hrs
