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DECORATIVE LIGHTING IN ARCHITECTURE #23 NOV/DEC 2017

SABINE MARCELIS LIBERTY COMMONS LDF REVIEW DARC AWARDS • SKINFLINT • NATIVE HOSTEL • BELLAVISTA • ELECTROLIGHT • CAPRI BY FRASER • ETTORE SOTTSASS

Cover image: Voie lights, Sabine Marcelis Š Lee Wei Swee

Welcome HELEN ANKERS • EDITOR Welcome to issue 23 and our last for 2017 - time certainly flies when you're having this much fun! The speed at which the past 12 months have passed me by might also have something to do with how much travelling the darc team has done! Looking back at 2017, we have brought you show reviews from all over the globe London to Paris, New York to Milan, and Dubai to Stockholm to name but a few; projects from near and far and interviews with some of the most prolific designers in lighting. I couldn't be prouder of what Emma, Stephen and I have achieved so far - yes, that's right, there's just the three of us that work on darc magazine day-inday-out - and I would like to thank each and every reader, every advertiser, and anyone who has provided us with a much needed prosecco or g&t at the end of a hectic tradeshow, we couldn't have done it without you (or the gin)!

Looking ahead, we've got plenty of exciting things in the pipeline, with the main attraction being the 2018 darc awards/decorative, taking place on 31st May at the iconic London nightclub, Fabric. Having opened in 1999, Fabric occupies the former Metropolitan Cold Stores of Smithfield Meat Market and features an abundance of dark corners and alcoves that are crying out to be lit. The best bit about our awards is that ALL designers who vote for their favourite project or product get a FREE ticket to attend the awards night itself, which will be an atmospheric party featuring light installations, a free bar and street food. The darc awards/ decorative open for entries on 1st December; anyone can enter - manufacturers and designers - and I can't stress enough the importance of getting in there early! All entries are available to view online as soon as they're entered, so the earlier you enter the more exposure to voters you receive! For more information on how to enter and what to enter, turn to page 16 to read more. It's set to be a wonderful event and we can't wait to have you all involved!

Turning my attention to the cover story this issue, we take a look at the work of Sabine Marcelis. Maria Oberti sat down with the designer recently to delve deeper into her latest work with neon. You can read the full interview from page 22 onwards. We also profile Aussie lighting designers Electrolight on page 64, focusing on some of their more decorative work and we have projects from JOI-Design on page 28; BMLD on page 34 and DesignAgency on page 40. As always, enjoy the read and we will see you in the new year - myself and the team are already looking forward to working with you all in 2018 and beyond!

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022 Sabine Marcelis

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Maria Oberti talks to Sabine Marcelis about her recent collections and work with neon.

REGULARS

FEATURES

014 DESIGN NEWS A round up of the latest decorative lighting news from around the world.

022 SABINE MARCELIS Maria Oberti delved deep into the world of neon when she met the Dutch designer recently.

016 DARC AWARDS NEWS Your guide to entering the 2018 decorative awards.

018 FOCAL POINT

050 IN DETAIL: EOQ The team at EOQ explains its love affair with aluminium.

ORUAWHARO, NEW ZEALAND

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GANADARA, CANADA

064 FOLIO We take a closer look at the lighting design practice's more decorative lighting schemes.

098 SOCIALIGHT

INSTAGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

ON SHOW

028 CAPRI BY FRASER HOTEL

072 MAISON ET OBJET We bring you the best in lighting from Paris' premium design show.

BERLIN jOI-Design and Lichtvision create a fun, vibrant atmosphere.

034 BELLAVISTA RESTAURANT

BARCELONA BMLD collaborates with El Equipo Creative to bring the idea of a town within a town to life.

040 LIBERTY COMMONS

TORONTO DesignAgency breathes new life into an abandoned basement space.

the designer's birth and Artemide is celebrating!

044 NATIVE HOSTEL 058 SKINFLINT darc learns how husband & wife duo Sophie and Chris Miller bring reclaimed lighting back to life.

AUSTIN Un.box studio and Joel Mozersky collaborate to bring Austin a hostel with a difference.

048 EXPERIENCE BAR

067 ECONOMY HOTELS A selection of design-led economy hotels making the most of decorative lighting solutions.

058 Skinflint

darc learns how husband & wife duo Sophie and Chris Miller bring reclaimed lighting back to life.

PROJECTS

2017 marks the 100th anniversary of

096 CALENDARC DESIGN SHOWS FOR 2017/18

Un.box studio and Joel Mozersky collaborate to bring Austin a hostel with a difference.

056 ETTORE SOTTSASS

ELECTROLIGHT, AUSTRALIA

044 Native Hostel

JOI-Design and Lichtvision joined forces to create a fun, vibrant and youthfull atmosphere.

IBIZA Interior designer Sean Cochrane fills this bar with bold lines, sweeping curves and layers of light.

076 LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL Our review of the best lighting products on show at all the LDF trade shows.

086 LDF LIGHTING EVENTS As well as the trade shows there was a plethora of events taking place around London in September.

88 DARC ROOM A review of the very first darc room event - a lighting specification show for the architectural market.

091 SLEEP EVENT A preview of lighting highlights to look out for at the Sleep event in London.

94 DOWNTOWN DESIGN A preview of lighting on show in Dubai.

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Lee Broom unveils ‘The Tree of Glass’ (UK) - This festive season, leading UK designer Lee Broom with global design brand Nude unveil ‘The Tree of Glass’ for contemporary British restaurant aqua shard, located on the 31st floor of The Shard. Designed by Lee Broom and manufactured by Nude, together they have created an illuminated sculptural take on a traditional Christmas tree inspired by the striking architecture of The Shard and its iconic silhouette on the London skyline.

The partnership sees aqua shard’s highly anticipated annual Christmas tree take a design-focused direction for 2017. ‘The Tree of Glass’ is a unique and contemporary Christmas tree comprised of 245 handblown glass LED pendant lights floating in formation.

The pendant shade design is inspired by The Shard and all 245 come together to create a single Shard shaped tree of light and glass, which playfully lights aqua shard’s iconic triple-story atrium, and views of the London skyline. www.leebroom.com

Giopato & Coombes win best new product at Decorex

Tom Dixon to relocate headquarters

Plumen launches an exclusive 3D printed shade

Heals to launch new regional flagship store in Birmingham

(UK) - The Gioielli collection received the “Best Product Award” at Decorex International. The series of appliques, inspired by the painstaking work of the goldsmith combined with cutting-edge LED technology, were awarded for being the most “emotive and innovative products” shown at the fair.

The Decorex Design Awards were judged by celebrated Interior Designers Staffan Tollgård, Fernanda Marque and Shalini Misra. www.giopatocoombes.com

(UK) - Tom Dixon will move from its current home at Portobello Dock to Kings Cross in March 2018.

The British lighting brand will move to The Coal Office, a 17,500sqft complex – historically a coal distribution centre – to create a new flagship shop, showroom, office, restaurant and café.

Part of the new Coal Drops Yard retail quarter, the new headquarters has further been conceived as a hub for designers and design. www.tomdixon.net

(UK) – Partnering with Designer and Engineer Hook Phanthasuporn, Plumen explored new forms and aesthetics made possible by the 3D printing process. Ruche is made up of repeating strips that, like leaf forms, flow from youthful tips to mature, fanned out fins. These fins cut across each other in an impossible configuration that still, to the eye, feel harmonious and natural. Adjusting the repeating forms allows the vessels to grow to larger volumes. www.plumen.com

(UK) – Heals is one of the leading brands to open at the new 20,000 sqft homewares section on Level 1 at the Mailbox, Birmingham.

Hamish Mansbridge, CEO at Heals said: “Our Mailbox showroom will offer the finest in furniture design from Heals as well as internationally recognised designers and brands.

The shop itself will be a unique retail space that will bring the best of our online offering to Birmingham.” www.heals.com

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CALLING ALL DESIGNERS! DARC AWARDS / DECORATIVE 2018 OPENS FOR ENTRIES 1ST DECEMBER! WWW.DARCAWARDS.COM/DECORATIVE ENTER THE DECORATIVE AWARDS NOW!

AWARDS JUDGING PROCESS

Entry Period: 1 December 2017 – 1 March 2018 Having launched in 2015, the darc awards are an international celebration of lighting design. Any interior designer, architect, lighting designer, product designer or manufacturer can enter the awards.

Have you been involved in a project where stunning lighting has been the focus of your attention? Or have you collaborated with a lighting manufacturer on their latest range of decorative light fixtures? This is your opportunity to shout about your achievements.

Voting Period: 12 March – 12 April 2018

CRITERIA FOR DECORATIVE AWARDS ENTRIES

DARC NIGHT

Projects and Products must have been completed and launched between 1st March 2017 – 1st March 2018 - please do not enter previous darc awards entries as they will be disqualified.

When: 31 May 2018 @ Fabric, London Taking place at the iconic London nightclub Fabric, the darc night awards ceremony is for all the designers that vote in the awards. having opened in 1999, Fabric occupies the former Metropolitan Cold Stores of Smithfield Meat Market and features an abundance of dark corners that will feature stunning light installations from our sponsors.

Tickets for designers are FREE and so is the bar! We will be inviting interior designers, architects, lighting designers and product designers to attend the awards party by asking them to vote in the awards. This means anyone from your design studio that has voted can join us for a fun night of socialising with like-minded people.

• The entrant must supply a statement / design narrative maximum 500 words.

• The entrant must supply 5-10 photographs (jpegs 740 x 493 pixels). A link to a video can also be included. No extra written material or PDFs will be accepted.

• Please note, architectural lighting projects and products should not be entered into the decorative awards and will be disqualified.

Once the entries have been shortlisted by a panel of international designers, it’s over to you, the design industry!

Every independent designer is encouraged to vote online for their favourite decorative lighting schemes and products, meaning the winners will be a true reflection of the design industry and an entirely democratic vote that is not influenced in any way by the darc magazine team.

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focal point ORUAWHARO TAKAPAU, NEW ZEALAND A serene, spiritual effect is created at the Oruawharo chapel by hanging one teardrop shaped Kōura light from the David Trubridge Studio. The warm panelling of native timber and the surrounding arches seems made to fit, despite being over 100 years old. The chapel is used for functions and weddings and is surrounded by gardens and parkland. The Kōura light specified was easily taken into the location in kitset form and assembled on-site. In a collection of six sizes, this version is 2,000mm high. For such an enormous light, the weight is only 10kgs, making it ideal for retrofitting into sites that don’t allow for heavy hanging luminaires. The light output is emotive and ambient and is provided through a standard E26/7 fitting; giving a wide range of lamping options. www.davidtrubridge.com Image: Tim Whittaker

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focal point GANADARA BAR MONTREAL, CANADA The transformation by Jean de Lessard - Designers Creatifs of a vast space, abandoned for six years, has given birth to the Ganadara Bar in Montreal, Canada. The design successfully creates a warm and comfortable environment, but in a place dictated by the solid simplicity of wood surrounded by a rougher shell of concrete and steel.

The designers developed the notion of a collective space in a noisy nocturnal place by using a repetitive circular shape; while the notion of ‘staged performance’ is heightened, thanks to lighting and its arrangement in the space, which creates vantage points with varied atmospheres.

A suspended sculptural construction above the bar counter makes use of 2,700 pieces of timber of different lengths taking up a fluid movement downward, thus having the eyes focusing again where it matters in a bar. The theatricality of the place is exacerbated by the muted tones of burgundy and anthracite, while remaining rogue yet sophisticated. www.delessard.com Image: Adrien William

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Making Neon New Again Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis explores the creative potential of neon in a series of sculptural resin and glass lighting collections.

Words | Maria Elena Oberti

“I love neon” proclaims Dutch industrial designer Sabine Marcelis from her Rotterdam-based workshop and studio.

An uncommon favourite amongst lighting designers, neon is not your typical go-to light source. Even so, Marcelis has managed to make neon sexy, if not totally chic.

We’re sitting together in a small office on the ground floor of SuGu, a creative workspace and warehouse situated on the port city’s western shores, while the rest of the team is out for lunch.

Dressed in minimalist navy blue threads, Marcelis is all energy behind a clutter-free desk. A series of bookcases containing inspirational literature, artifacts, and many, many samples lines the walls, supplying a colourful backdrop to the industrial surroundings. A Voie table lamp resting precariously upon a pile of books casts a soft halo behind her.

“I definitely wasn’t someone who knew what I wanted to be from an early age,” she confesses. “I’m very intuitive, and have always enjoyed creating things. When I was young, I used to sew bags and try to sell them at the markets where my parents sold flowers. I never had a clear sense of what I wanted to be, I was just doing things that I liked at the time.”

Born and raised in Krimpen aan den IJssle, a suburb of Rotterdam, Marcelis is Dutch by nature but a Kiwi at heart. At age nine she and her family left their native Holland and emigrated to Wellington, New Zealand. It was there that, as a teen, she discovered her passion for sport, and first learned to channel her creativity into the physical world. “When I was sixteen I got really into snowboarding, and so that took over my life for a few years. I completed my last year of secondary school at an Outdoor Pursuits college, where you go rock climbing, skiing, and things like that. It was a really great experience, a very different kind of

learning,” she says.

After stints working as a snowboard instructor in New Zealand and on Canada’s Whistler Mountain, Marcelis decided it was time to carve a new path for the future. “I realised I couldn’t earn a living snowboarding, so I was like, OK, I’ve got to learn something and get a degree. My sister studied industrial design and I really liked what she was doing, so I decided to give it a go. I couldn’t imagine doing anything else now,” she adds.

Marcelis enrolled in a local design program, and was instantly hooked. “I was quite lucky” she says, alluding to her impromptu decision to pursue design. Two years into her studies she decided to take things a step further and applied to courses abroad. In search of a “more poetic way of working,” Marcelis enrolled at Design Academy Eindhoven and made her return back to the Netherlands at 21.

“I definitely feel like I got a good education in New Zealand, but it is was a very traditional way of teaching industrial design. DAE offered a more realistic approach, one that’s closer to the real world. As a student, you’re left on your own to find materials and machinery. It taught me how to be resourceful and how to work creatively with others,” she says.

The Academy turned out to be just the right match for Marcelis, who thrived in the program’s hands-on and explorative approach. “I have a very driven personality.

I want it my way and I’m not afraid to fight for it,” she says, reflecting back on her final graduation project, House Wine, a nifty DIY winemaking kit that turns fermenting wine into a work of art. The project, which would be extensively published and earn Marcelis her first gallery commission, was not exactly what her professor had in mind.

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was like ‘NO, that’s not it at all! It’s like an aquarium in your living room!” she says, laughing. “We really couldn’t understand each other. It taught me that it’s OK not to agree with everyone, and that you need to fight for your views and bring the right arguments to the table.”

Marcelis’ uncompromising determination and vision has played out into her professional career. “I feel like I work quite selfishly because everything I do is out of a personal interest or fascination. If something doesn’t interest me, I won’t pursue it. I want to explore and challenge myself with the work I do. I think that’s always been a very important aspect of my work.”

Marcelis opened up shop in 2011, working first as a freelance designer before devoting herself full-time to her personal research

and work. “I haven’t had to actively pursue work myself, I’ve just been doing my thing in the background, and in the last few years people have started noticing and taking an interest in me and my work. Now it’s more about saying no to things and being selective of who I choose to work with.”

For a young designer, still at the bud of her career, Marcelis is extremely disciplined. “I don’t want to repeat myself,” she says. “I don’t want to keep making the same things over and over again. Of course, there’s a red thread that runs across my work, but if there’s the possibility to do something custom or specific to the project, then that’s definitely my preference,” she adds.

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all is, as she explains, “this fascination with light, both natural and artificial, and how, when combined with other materials, light becomes a tool for seeing something other than you’d normally see. It’s all about creating a moment of wonder. Resins and glass are the perfect materials for that,” she adds.

Marcelis, who works almost exclusively with glass and resin, started experimenting with the materials during her studies, and remembers being immediately impressed by their versatility. She soon started adding colour to the mix and found that the effects, especially when combined with light, were nothing short of mesmerising.

“My fascination with glass and resin started simultaneously. I constantly have projects going on. Everything is a continuous

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evolution, you do one project and you find specific opportunities within that production - a way of producing or working with a material - and then that can be pushed again within a different scale for a different result. Basically, the projects just keep building on top of each other,” she explains.

Marcelis’ love of neon started in 2014, when she was invited to show in a joint exhibition with Dutch designer Luc Van den Broeck in a gallery in Copenhagen. It was there that Marcelis first presented Voie, a series of neon table lamps cast in solid resin cubes.

“At this point no one knew who I was, so the gallery really took a wild leap of faith on me. I was already working with resin, and somehow knew I wanted to work with neon. I asked myself ‘what is the unique quality of neon?’” A question to which she

immediately provides an answer: “The light itself is the material, it’s really a physical thing. You could just have a single neon light on it’s own and it becomes the object, something you can’t achieve with LEDs, for example,” she says.

“For Voie, I wanted to see what would happen if you added another material to neon. I did a lot of experiments where I would mix different pigments with the resin.

First it was about seeing what happens to the light when it goes into this other material, so creating this clear difference between light on it’s own and light in combination with another a material. Then at some point it evolved into the light being completely encased in resin,” she explains.

Voie quickly turned to Dawn, a collection of atmospheric floor and wall-mounted

Opening spread Sabine Marcelis’ Voie Light for Palau de Casavells art gallery in Spain.

This page Marcelis has a fascination with light both natural and artificial and how, when combined with other materials, it becomes a tool for seeing something other than you would normally see. With the Voie Series, Marcelis wanted to see what would happen if you added another material to neon, which saw her do a lot of experimentation with mixing different pigments with the resin.

Voie turned into the Dawn (pictured right) light that she will show at Design Miami in December.

Image credits: 1. Nacho Alegra 2. Ronald Smits 3&4 Tim Buiting.

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lights where the neon light never leaves the object. In the case of the Dawn lights “the difference in the resin, what happens within the object, is what manipulates the light,” she says. It’s all about manipulating light. A lot of my projects touch on this,” she adds.

For Filter, a series of lights commissioned

by Hi-Macs, Marcelis worked in reverse, using light to transform the encompassing material. “I wanted to show something that you wouldn’t otherwise be able to see,” she says. “When the light is on it brings the textures in the Hi-Macs material to the forefront.”

Marcelis has recently started experimenting with interiors, working alongside renowned Dutch architectural practice OMA on projects in Paris and Berlin. Designed by OMA, the projects dazzle with mesmerizing materials and lights by Marcelis. The Repossi store, which opened its doors last year, flaunts a shining display of aluminium, laminated glass and mirrored panels, all crafted by our lady of the hour. For the entryway of OMA’s redesign of the KaDeWe shopping centre in Berlin, Marcelis used strips of lights in resin to create an ethereal sense of exaggerated depth.

This September saw the opening of her biggest interior project yet with the new Salle Privée flagship in Milan. Again, playing with resin and light, Marcelis drew from existing frescoes to give shape to a series of semi-transparent displays that radiate with colour, and a brilliance all of their own.

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says. “I don’t want to feel confined to one thing.” When it comes to interiors “it’s about appreciating how you move through a space, of creating experiences. I don’t make anything mass produced,” she continues.

“Like my objects, which are numbered or limited edition, the spaces I design are oneoffs. I don’t want to make something you can buy thousands of.”

Marcelis has seen success relatively early on in her career, and is careful to point out that she has plenty still to explore. “I’m very cautious of not wanting to become this one-hit-wonder, and am constantly experimenting and trying out new material combinations. Next year there will be a whole other body of work that will be released, that doesn’t necessarily follow the same thread.”

She hints at metal being the material of choice in 2018. “I can’t say what it is, but it will definitely incorporate light,” she assures me.

For the diehard snowboarder-turneddesigner, inspiration is as much in the eye of the beholder as it is in the physical world.

“A lot of my projects are about mimicking things in nature, but in a very artificial and abstract kind of way. It’s about using your eyes and your mind, and not relying on Pinterest and those sorts of things for inspiration, because, inevitably, you’ll end up with the same designs as everyone else, and you definitely don’t want that.” www.sabinemarcelis.com

1. Salone del Mobile Milan, 2017 exhibition. Image credit Ronald Smits. 2. Marcelis has also been experimenting with interiors. For the entryway of the KaDeWe shopping centrein Berlin, Marcelis used strips of lights in resin to create an ethereal sense of exaggerated depth. Image credit Ivan Markovic.

3. This September saw the opening of Marcelis’ biggest interior project yet with the new Salle Privee flagship in Milan. Again, playing with resin and light, she drew from existing frescoes to give shape to a series of semi-transparent displays that radiate with colour and a brilliance all of their own. Image credit Delfino Sisto Legnani. 4. The original 2015 Voie Lights collection. Image credit Lee Wei Swee.

5. Rendering of a new chandelier that Marcelis will present at Salon New York in November.

6. Voie Lights. Image credit Ronald Smits.

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A Layered History Having opened on Berlin's Museum Island in May, Capri by Fraser creates unique and layered design thanks to the efforts of JOI-Design and Lichtvision.

Images: Simone Ahlers for JOI-Design

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In the heart of Berlin, Germany, Capri by Fraser brings its unique design-led style to this cultural and diverse city. Located on Museum Island, this brand new hotel residence is only a short walk to the famous museums in Berlin's historic centre and guests can choose from 143 stylish serviced apartments, ranging from studios to onebedroom units.

Designed around the ‘always on’ needs of today’s travellers, Capri by Fraser Berlin features carefully curated art pieces that make each property unique and offers floor-to-ceiling windows with stunning city views. Interior designers JOI-Design were appointed by Frasers Hospitality to design Capri by Fraser’s first German property in Frankfurt, which completed in August 2015.

Its interiors were true to Capri by Frasers’ brand of fun, playful apartment hotels for plugged-in, globetrotting professionals that also have a strong sense of place.

When Frasers Hospitality acquired the site on Spree Island, they brought JOI-Design on board once again to develop interiors that were as vibrant and exciting as the previous Frankfurt project and which, as before, celebrated the hotel's location. This time however, the location was extraordinary – atop an archeological site that showed structural traces of how the area has been used in centuries past.

Excavation works carried out between 2007-2009 revealed the island to be the birthplace of Berlin and as such, the designers were keen to showcase this heritage within the contemporary spaces.

This fresh and modern long-stay apartment hotel encourages guests to learn about the site’s past in a fun and engaging manner.

The lobby for example, affords guests a unique opportunity to interact with the site’s remarkable legacy. An eclectic array of vibrant furniture allows for flexible

configuration atop a tempered glass floor, immersing guests in history as they peer into the archeological dig below.

Overhead, a shimmering gold wall-to-wall installation features hexagonal mosaics and perforations that frame a black and white etching of the Spree River’s island and its ancient structures. Layered patterns recur throughout the hotel’s interiors, including the lobby seating groups where rugs are decorated with hexagon blocks and stencilled art employs superimposed circles to inject creative energy. Timber shelves strung onto colourful ropes suggest the notion of being suspended between time and space. Lighting within the hotel was of exceptional importance to the interior design and according to JOI-Design, offering different light moods in the public areas was particularly crucial as they allowed the spaces to be completely transformed from day to night.

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“We chose decorative lighting that would emphasise our concept's playful spirit and echo other elements within the design,” says Peter Joehnk, Co-Managing Director, JOI-Design. “Moolin floor lamps and pendants surround seating areas in the lobby and illuminate the bar. Their bamboo ribbon shades cast lined shadows across the walls, a repetition of the patterns created by multi-coloured strings hung from the doorways as an allusion to the graphic depiction of timelines. Hotellicht pendant lights suspended in a zigzag pattern also suggest the charting of time.

“Bespoke Hotellicht table lamps and pendants made from stacks of colourful globes emulate the lacquered spheres strung into the floor-to-ceiling shelving units. These shapes can also be seen in the quirky, contemporary artwork streamlining these elements within the design scheme.”

Working in close collaboration with lighting

designer Raoul Hesse of Lichtvision, the teams talked at length about technical planning, site-specific information and installation to develop seamless mood lighting for all public areas.

“JOI-Design’s idea was to use decorative lighting fixtures designed in layers – an outer filigree layer or opaque material and an inner transluscent layer that hides the light source,” says Hesse. “For the different rooms with their different functions, other luminaire types were proposed – this was due to the fresh and young atmosphere that was the design intent. The decorative lighting elements work as part of the furniture - it integrates into the young and vivid feeling, using fixtures that are en vogue, such as cage luminaires.”

Guestrooms at the Capri by Fraser Berlin have been designed to feel modern and bright yet comfortably relaxed. Elegant oak detailing and floors enhance their

JOI-Design's vision for the interiors of the new Capri by Fraser on Berlin's Museum Island has been creatively brought to life through 'layers of history' a concept inspired by the fascinating heritage of its location. The decorative lighting works as part of the interior design to inject a young and vivid feeling into the space by using fixtures that are én vogue such as cage luminaires.

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cosiness, while stylish yet durable modern furnishings in muted orange and pink tones bring understated warmth and a sense of wellbeing for longer-stay residents.

Once again, the heritage is an important reference point with laser-cut wall panels that reveal in orange and pink a map of ancient Petriplatz. The historical reference is also depicted in the abstract rug pattern.

Lichtvision was responsible for both architectural and decorative lighting elements throughout the hotel and as such the relationship between the two is based on a common concept, as Hesse explains: “Architectural lighting stands back in recessed ceilings and is as discreet as possible – while decorative elements do as they are supposed to – decorate the space.”

Good lighting is crucial for interior design to be successful, according to Joehnk. No matter the quality of materials used or the finesse of the concept, without the correct type and level of illumination, guests will not be able to fully appreciate them.

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Hesse, the client set higher luminance levels than you would normally find on a project like this and as such, Hesse and his team proposed luminaires with the latest technology including LED. This of course had an influence on the budget: “Although the budget was defined in ‘pre-LED times’ the daily design process was based on LED-techniques,” Hesse says. “On one hand Fraser appreciated this but on the other, were not willing to change the budget as this was a main focus of the project. In the end we had to make the decision to specify discharge lamps.”

“It was a unique and humbling experience to work on such an important historic site,” concludes Joehnk. “We wanted to preserve and showcase the excavations, bringing Berlin’s origins into the design. However, we also needed to create a concept that reflected the values of the brand, which is young, fun and playful. This was a challenge, but one we truly relished.” www.joi-design.com www.lichtvision.com

design details CAPRI BY FRASER BERLIN, GERMANY CLIENT: FRASERS HOSPITALITY ARCHITECTS: ORTNER & ORTNER BAUKUNST / TREILING ARCHITEKTEN INTERIOR DESIGN: JOI-DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN: LICHTVISION

lighting specified LASFERA DESIGN MOOLIN FLOOR LAMPS & PENDANTS 2F HOTEL.LICHT CUSTOMISED TABLE LAMPS & PENDANTS MARSET PLEAT BOX PENDANTS MEGAMAN FILAMENT CLASSIC LAMPS TOM ROSSAU ST903 PENDANTS WO & WE COLLECTION PENDANTS WEVER & DUCRE CEILING MOUNTED LIGHT FIXTURES ZERO BELYSNING FLOOR LIGHTS

MASTERFUL MODERNISM The Deauville exudes an air of confidence through its simple yet elegant lines, adding a mid century modern charisma to any bathroom scheme.

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The Garden in the North Interior Designers El Equipo Creative and lighting designers BMLD transformed a former office building into a concept restaurant with a difference.

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Located in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Bellavista del Jardin del Norte is the brainchild of the Iglesias and Messi brothers who, from the very beginning of the project, wanted to create a ‘town’ we would all like to live in.

Working hand-in-hand with interior designers El Equipo Creativo, lighting designers BMLD reinterpreted the two key elements of the town the owners' envisioned nature and the lights that adorn the patron saint festivities of Spain.

Formally an office building with a fantastic garden at the rear, which was unavailable to the public at the time, the ‘town’ of Bellavista includes a garden, cinema, town square, church, local pub, barber shop, newsstand, corner store and flower shop.

BMLD’s strategy throughout was based on a two-part design: visible decorative lighting that provides the required ambience in each part of the restaurant, accompanied by

almost invisible architectural illumination that allows suitable levels of light in each space. For each scenario BMLD came up with different, innovative lighting solutions, for example the Plaza a six-metre high space which ends the tour of the ‘town’ under a sky full of fireworks. Brigit Walter, head of creative direction at BMLD, designed a special set of different discshaped structures, hanging luminaires and shadow producing ceiling lights at different heights to evoke an exciting climax, an explosion of light and shadow.

"The overall design and development of the project took three months, whilst the construction took around nine months to complete," says Walter. "From an operational point of view the space is used 24/7 all year round, mornings for breakfast and brunch and later on for lunch and dinner which is served throughout the entire lower floor. The upper floor houses the VIP

areas, restrooms and conference rooms, so coming up with an all day concept that divides the venue into smaller spaces with different atmospheres was a challenge.”

Due to the peculiar brief, custom tailored solutions were required as Walter explains: “Once the conceptual design was approved mock-ups were conducted and during the process, special attention was given to the custom elements, their proportions and balance within the space, detail and integration.”

Bellavista guests are greeted by thousands of luminous flowers hanging from the ceiling at different heights, a system the BMLD team designed. Strips of lamps are fastened by tension wires and clamps that adjust the position of the lights to create a natural spontaneity. Across the space to the greenhouse, vegetation takes the spotlight and hangs freely from the ceilings, lit to showcase its beautiful green hues and bring

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the outdoors in. Scores of yellow flowers hang from the ceiling in the flower shop accompanied by garlands of light while a rail luminaire illuminates the flowers from below, causing shadows that produce a three dimensional effect.

“The original brief didn't change much over time,” Natali Canas del Pozo, architect at El Equipo Creativo tells darc. “The restaurant design translates the idea of daily life and the festive spirit of villages and towns in Spain and all around the world. Bellavista del Jardin del Norte means ‘beautiful view of the garden in the north’, referencing the large garden at the back, a surprising oasis in the centre of Barcelona. The final result of the design creates a sensation of a familiar setting for many Spanish people: going back home for the yearly village feast and enjoying homemade food, each corner is as surprising as it is familiar.”

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to nature, the sensation of the open air, the festive spirit of the lights in the city, summer nights and fireworks.

“We tried not to be too literal when evoking a town, we wanted to introduce into the venue something of a spirit and atmosphere," continues Cansas del Pozo.

"We are more interested in abstract references and reinterpretations; lighting became a key element in achieving this goal. The idea was to create a lighting installation that accompanies the concept of a walk through a town and the grand finale in the final open space is the explosion of fireworks. The light varies in intensity and colour and gives the option of creating a separate ambiance for lunch and dinner.” says Canas del Pozo.

“The decorative lighting is a key element in this project,” continues Walter, “it’s a visual cue to identify the feeling in the town and the town square’s fireworks.

Opening Spread Bellavista's dining room, illuminated by the bespoke firework fixture, designed by BMLD and El Equipo Creative. This Page Thousands of luminous flowers lit by strips of lamps fastened to tension wires, designed by BMLD. Bespoke wall sconces illuminate a booth in the dining area. Next Page A closer look at the firework installation from the street outside. Exposed lamps in the main area, reflect off the scattering of custom made flowers.

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To incorporate nature into the project, custom flower elements were designed to greet you from the entrance and follow you all the way to the town’s plaza. These flowers hide recessed mounted track systems that incorporate the functional lighting for tables, as well as small uplights that highlight the flowers; both the track and uplights were designed for this project due to size limitations. Throughout the space, you find additional cues such as decorative lamp posts, signage within kiosks

and bare E27 lamps placed strategically.

Once at the plaza, the town’s fireworks are recreated through custom designed fixtures that provide sparkle and soft changes within colour.” The result is an authentic and endearing location, where good comfort food can be enjoyed on a bright summer evening, no matter the season. www.bmld.es www.elequipocreativo.com

design details BELLAVISTA DEL JARDIN, BARCELONA, SPAIN CLIENT: IGLESIAS AND MESSI INTERIOR DESIGN: EL EQUIPO CREATIVO LIGHTING DESIGN: BMLD

lighting specified BESPOKE FIREWORK INSTALLATION: BMLD WITH EL EQUIPO CREATIVO CUSTOM DECORATIVE LIGHT FIXTURES: BMLD

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Modern Heritage DesignAgency breathed new life into a basement space in Toronto’s Liberty Village, creating a polished hospitality space that appeals to the neighbourhood’s youthful and creative spirit.

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A generation ago, Toronto’s Liberty Village was barely post-industrial, its landscape still dominated by abandoned munitions factories and railway yards. Since the 1990’s, an astonishing transformation has seen new towers rise between these old red-brick buildings - now converted in to trendy lofts - as younger generations have flooded to Liberty Village to live, to work at a growing number of tech and design firms, or to simply enjoy the vibrant atmosphere of a neighbourhood on the rise.

Restaurateurs Oliver & Bonacini along with Albertan craft brewer Big Rock recently collaborated to create Liberty Commons at Big Rock Brewery, located at 60 Atlantic Avenue, a key node in Liberty Village.

Local firm DesignAgency was tasked with converting the 7,400sqft interior of the exemplary former warehouse into Big Rock’s first hospitality location in Ontario.

DesignAgency created interiors that celebrate the connection between beer

and food and appeal to the district’s styleconscious residents. Part vintage speakeasy, part modern tasting cellar, Liberty Commons has an atmosphere that’s polished, yet casual.

Inspired by the surrounding setting of Liberty Village, Allen Chan, Founding Partner of DesignAgency wanted to showcase the neighbourhood’s industrial past as well as it’s design driven future.

“We wanted to create a hospitality space that would appeal to Liberty Village neighbourhood’s youthful and creative spirit,” Chan tells darc. “We also wanted to create a setting to highlight the brewing process and a design that spoke to the process of beer production and how that inspires the menu.”

To give the interiors a distinctive character throughout, DesignAgency blended sophisticated finishes and paired them with reclaimed and industrial objects.

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including masonry and wood slat elevator screens, while large original wooden beams contrast with sleek geometric tiles, leather banquettes and polished wood and marble tabletops.

An array of unusual lighting elements illuminate the restaurant space, including an impressive custom Yoki Milke copper pipe and valve light fixture above the bar. VISO globo suspension lights provide guests with a warm welcome in the entrance, whilst the Milke Bau multi-arm chandelier wows on the stairwell. Restoration Hardware’s Factory filament smoke glass funnel pendants run through the centre of the dining area, illuminating the tables below, whilst Milke Bau Glass Cylinder pendants highlight the booths and tables at the side of the room.

Barn Light Electric’s School House copper LED cord hung lights adorn the restaurant’s window, in keeping with the industrial heritage of the space.

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huge transformation and part of that transformation is about preservation and how we can beautifully merge the old with the new,” Chan explains. “We wanted to pay homage to the history of the building by bringing to the forefront as much of the building’s character as possible, we also custom designed the ‘I don’t give a sip’ neon art piece in the downstairs waiting area, which glows above some vintage lecture hall seating that we found. The juxtaposition is quirky, flashy and a bit irreverent all at once.”

Fire related code constraints required some creativity to work around - unable to puncture the dry wall ceiling, DesignAgency created a hanging system of decorative lights that snake around the space and drop down where needed most. “We were tasked with giving new life to a dark, leftover basement so we had no choice but to work with the low ceiling height in this project.

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the paint on the ceiling, but it would have felt too oppressive.”

Surprisingly DesignAgency did not work with a lighting designer; instead they brought in an electrical engineer to deal with the calculation requirements for code. “In a lot of cases, we design all the lighting and have it fabricated to our specifications,” says Chan.

The result is a space that’s part vintage speakeasy, part modern tasting cellar and pub with a polished yet casual and warm atmosphere; thanks in part to a clever, layered lighting scheme. “Lighting is crucial to any successful project – ambience is everything. Without proper lighting you might as well give up. It creates the mood and the atmosphere; good lighting can make people look great at the worst of times.” www.thedesignagency.ca

design details LIBERTY COMMONS, TORONTO, CANADA CLIENT: OLIVER & BONACINI AND BIG ROCK BREWERY INTERIOR DESIGN AND LIGHTING: DESIGNAGENCY

lighting specified MILKE BAU GLASS CYLINDER PENDANTS MILKE BAU MULTI-ARM CHANDELIER RESTORATION HARDWARE GLASS FUNNEL PENDANTS RESTORATION HARDWARE WALL SCONCES TBD WALL SCONCES BARN LIGHT ELECTRIC SKYLARK INDUSTRIAL PENDANTS VISO GLOBO SUSPENSION KSI SIGN SYSTEMS NEON TUBE LIGHT Opening spread Milke Bau 8-inch glass globes are featured on the bespoke copper piping installation that runs around the feature bar.

This page 1. Milke Bau Glass Cylinder pendants illuminate the booths in the dining area.

2. Restoration Hardware Smoke Glass Funnel pendants illuminate the tables whilst the horizontal filament wall sconce provides a warm glow against the dark wooden pillars. 3. Milke Bau multi-arm chandelier is featured on the staircase. 4. The custom made "I don't give a sip" neon sign by KSI Sign Systems in the waiting area. 5. Barn light Electric School house copper LED coed hung lights illuminate Liberty Commons windows. 6. Milke Glass Globes appear again the restaurant's entrance.

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Native Traveller Un.box studio took on the restoration of a sought after historical property in downtown Austin, Texas transforming it into a unique, creative boutique hostel for the millenial traveller.

Images: Chase Daniel

The Native is a boutique hostel, café and event space designed for the epicurean traveller and locals alike. It is nestled in an existing two-storey late 1800’s stone warehouse and a mid-century brick warehouse right in the middle of the upcoming transit-oriented development adjacent to downtown Austin, Texas in the US. Un.box studio utilised of rich palette and textured materials, a theme aptly referred to throughout the design process as ‘dark and stormy’. The result is a truly unique communal experience that offers affordable rates with impeccable style at the nexus of development in Austin.

Owners of Native, Michael Dickson, Antonio Madrid and Will Steakley approached principal designer at Un.box, Jared Haas when they first obtained the lease to the property. “The owners did not have a fleshed out concept, they initially thought it would be a boutique hotel and were circling

through many different programmatic concepts,” says Haas. “Regardless, we were all set on creating a community and a culture. The owners started to realise that the market for high end boutique hotels is over saturated the affordability crisis in Austin doesn't just affect the locals, it affects tourists too, so starting a hostel was the best solution.”

Un.box Studio spent about six months fleshing out the different concepts within the existing space, locking down a final concept proved a challenge, “we truly believe in a think twice, act once policy when it comes to design but in this case it was think 10 times, act once, but the extra effort shows.”

A lack of historic buildings in the area made the property a sought after space and the designers worked hard to preserve its historical charm. Certain areas were left untouched or exposed, historic etchings and stencilling are left on show and the

building's original stone, brickwork, wood and steel structure can be found throughout the building.

“Most projects in Austin are newly constructed, relative to other cities in the US," says Haas. "Austin does not have a strong building history. There are very few older buildings standing or buildings that were built well. It was important that we not only preserved as much of the existing elements as possible but to celebrate its beauty.”

The rooms are an eclectic mix of old and new, tied together with the eventual dark and stormy concept. The lounge area features leather seating, fabric sofas, patterned rugs and hanging plants while the oversized 1960’s inspired Capiz shell globes

by Restoration Hardware lend a softness to the space, facilitating the feeling of home.

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with gold leaf to give them a warm amber glow. The dorm room’s feature bespoke steel bunk beds equipped with privacy curtains and nautical inspired CB2 globe pendant lights. With the main part of the building being a former warehouse, there is very little natural light in the space so the natural light that was available had to be utilised carefully and a dark and stormy theme was adopted in the darker areas of the space.

“We placed the café in the one space where natural light was most abundant and added skylights in the main communal space outside of the bunk rooms. All other spaces were intentionally left dark with very dim lighting to help create a soft and warm mood,” Haas says.

The lighting had to turn from day to night seamlessly, something designer Joel Mozersky considered carefully. “Originally there were a lot of custom fixtures designed, due to budget and other constraints some of those were edited. We did end up designing the sconces with Warbach Lighting and Design and modifying others, though I would have loved to be able to commission more custom lighting but ultimately it turned out great.”

Although the venue is open, the concept is still considered an experiment and is constantly shifting. The owners recently acquired the adjacent vacant space and have turned it in to an open event space, which host’s musicians and DJ sets weekly and is also available for the general public to rent.

“There are a few ideas that we floated with

the owners that we agreed to put off into later phases,” explains Haas. “In particular, we wanted to create an outdoor garden/ event/ café space with a pool. We typically design our projects to tie our buildings interiors with the exteriors and I would love to open up the back of the hostel to tie it in to a communal garden area per our initial intention. Fingers crossed that it could happen in the future.” www.un-boxstudio.com

design details THE NATIVE HOSTEL, AUSTIN, TEXAS CLIENT: MICHAEL DICKSON, ANTONIO MADRID, WILL STEAKLEY INTERIOR & lLIGHTING DESIGN: JOEL MOZERSKY ARCHITECTS: UN.BOX STUDIO

lighting specified RESTORATION HARDWARE CAPIZ SHELL GLOBES WARBACH LIGHTING BESPOKE WALL SCONCES BARN LIGHT ELECTRIC CUSTOM PENDANTS CB2 GLOBE PENDANTS Opening Spread The Native Hostel's lounge/lobby illuminated by the 60's inspired capiz shell globes from Restoration Hardware This Page: 1. The dorm room with nautical inspired CB2 globe pendant lights 2. The exterior of The Native's event space, with custom artwork. 3. The corridors leading to the dorms where the buildings original wood and steel structures can be found.

4. Custom wall sconces from Warbach designed by Joel Mozersky can be found above the banquettes in the cafe are. 5. Custom made steel bunks in the dorm, complete with privacy curtain.

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Balearic Beats Interior designer Sean Cochrane injects bold lines, sweeping curves and layers of light into Hotel Es Vive's Experience Bar - creating the 'best late-night bar on Ibiza'.

Upon stepping inside Ibiza’s Hotel Es Vive, guests are met with tropical palms, brilliant white walls, an inviting pool and the chilled out beats of a poolside DJ. From the inception of Hotel Es Vive in 2000, when owner Jason Bull and interior designer Sean Cochrane of Cochrane Design put their heads together to create an Ibiza destination with a difference, an Art Deco haven for health-conscious hedonists was born.

The award-winning hotel takes inspiration from the 1940s, mixing bold lines and sweeping curves of the time to capture the essence of a bygone era. Full of elegance and fashion, the unique rooms and suites at Hotel Es Vive have been lovingly designed to perfection, with every room and suite offset by a luxurious marble bathroom, stylish furnishings and equipped with all the facilities a guest could wish for from a luxury hotel.

The Experience Bar - one of three established bar/restaurant areas at the hotel - was recently redesigned by Cochrane and reopened on 30 April this year. With no fixed brief to work within – apart from to create the most amazing late-night lounge on the island – Cochrane’s existing knowledge of the building dictated the design, as he explains to darc: “The hotel’s

culture is very much entwined into all of our schemes. In terms of the lighting, we complimented the interior design of the Experience Bar by using multiple layers of light to help bring each space and area alive over the varying moods during the day and night. All of the lighting designs are timeless and have a warm ambient glow to them.

“There are five different lighting heights in The Experience Bar, which allows more flattering lighting in the evening while illuminating the tables sufficiently so that they are functional.

The hotel is one of the few remaining listed buildings in Ibiza and Cochrane and his team had to work around a number of constraints and structural limitations when working on the Experience Bar, with that in mind, lighting placement was even more of a consideration. “We used many different levels of lighting to achieve this,” says Cochrane. “And the reflected qualities of the new curved metal wall sections complemented this, helping to direct small amounts of light into darker areas of the bar.

“Because the building is listed we needed to develop a room inside a room because of the structural limitations. To overcome this, we split the area into two VIP booths and lit them both separately. The booths

are needed to convey privacy and a sense of VIP separation; by adding low lit opulent lighting that is different to the rest of the bar, we were able to create secluded areas that have affluent ambiences.

“We combined the Art Deco heritage with nautical twists and turns of a 1930’s cruise ship to create a completely new concept for Ibiza. Whilst we wanted to create a punchy and modern design, we also brought a feeling of Deco grandeur into the lighting through the use of ribbed glass, brass finishes and subtle geometric patterning.

“The timeless concept for the lighting and constant warmth from all light sources blends the decorative and architectural elements seamlessly and I am very happy and proud of how the project turned out.

We designed everything within the project and Es Vive is a personal favourite of mine.

I wasn’t asked to just create bar, but to create something special and so that is what I did. Lighting is everything in a bar, so here, we had to pay even more attention to it.” www.cochranedesign.com

design details THE EXPERIENCE BAR, HOTEL ES VIVE, IBIZA CLIENT: JASON BULL INTERIOR DESIGN & LIGHTING: SEAN COCHRANE

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Engineering Light darc discusses innovative manufacturing processes and working predominantly with aluminium with EOQ Brand Director Matt Pepper.

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EOQ is a lighting company rooted in the spirit of industrial adventure, it delivers classic design principles using a new and constantly evolving vocabulary. Brand Director Matt Pepper took time out of his busy schedule to talk us through their processes and why working with aluminium is a surprisingly flexible and sustainable solution.

How and why did EOQ begin working with Aliminum?

Michael Young and I founded EOQ to create a platform for selling his celebrated Chair, 4a - an aluminum chair developed for a small restaurant project that had received a lot of attention due to the way it married

form and function so elegantly. Developing this chair and the Bramah lighting range took us on a journey together along with an aluminum factory we both had close ties to, which happened to specialise in highly engineered components for the electronics industry. We all understood the material but every process and development for these products was new territory for everyone involved. This context has driven an innovative approach from the start.

Why is aluminum important to EOQ as a brand?

It is not only the world’s most abundant metal, it is non-toxic, rust proof and infinitely recyclable. It is also one third

of the weight of steel and once alloyed it is stronger. We work with recycled raw material which, when designing products offers us a large range of production processes and finishes.

Could you talk us through the design and manufacturing process of your first ever product?

For our first pendant light Bramah we took inspiration from a heat sink. We spent some time studying the optimum extrusion dimensions and calculating our best guess initially at how thin and how many fins we could practically manufacture to create the lightest and most refined design. We have worked exclusively with Michael Young

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Design Studio for the first few collections who have been invaluable in defining the products in the context of the factory and its expertise and capability.

Michael knew he wanted to try and remove the core of the material to open up the structure and create the transparency needed to allow the light to diffuse through the fin, but that this wasn’t something that had been done before, so the process was challenging. Having discovered it was possible to kill out the core material to open up the fins and allow that transparency, we soon discovered that such fine aluminium fins did not respond well to the vibrations created by spinning at speed on a lathe. Many long weeks were spent refining the process to include packing the spaces between the fins with gypsum to reduce vibrations and wastage in the milling

process. All of our lighting is predominantly made of aluminium, Bramah, Joseph and Dub.

it causes a soft reflection that disperses across all the surfaces and delivers the light throughout the whole product.

How well does aluminium interact with glass?

It’s not so much that aluminium interacts differently with glass compared to other metals, it’s the surface treatment / finish that we can apply that works so well with glass. All of our products are anodised to a very high standard; this finish allows us to deliver any colour and a reflection that creates a synergy with the properties of glass.

What’s next for EOQ and aluminium?

We are midway through developing a new range of lighting with a very talented British designer using a simpler extrusion and I’m quite excited about the application of our anodising on a larger surface. www.eoq-design.com

How do the different treatments and finishes of this material affect how it interacts with light?

When the anodised finish interacts with light

Opening spread The Bramah light is sandblasted using an industrial sandblasting machine.

Previous page The aliminium shade is anodised by hand. This page The finished product, The Bramah copper long pendant and floor lamp - the delicate shadows it creates are both beautiful and surprising.

“Dome is a light sculpture which proposes a play of shadows and delicate light, born in the mediterranean.

Only Bover could make it possible.�

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Master of Memphis In a year that would have marked his 100th birthday, 2017 sees Italian lighting brand Artemide honour designer Ettore Sottsass; celebrating both the professional and personal relationship between the founding member of Memphis design and Artemide president and founder, Ernesto Gismondi.

Known in the lighting community for his collaboration with Italian brand Artemide on the Callimaco and Pausania lamps, Artemide showrooms around the world have seen displays dedicated to Ettore Sottsass' work and the brand has even launched its first online store where the public can purchase the two lamps.

But where did it all begin? Sottsass was a grandee of late 20th century Italian design.

Best known as the founder of the early 1980s Memphis collective, he also designed electronic products for Olivetti, as well as beautiful glass and ceramics.

Wherever he went Sottsass carried a camera to photograph anything that caught his eye. Doors, temples, kitchens, billboards, nothing escaped him. This was a man who took 1,780 photographs on a twelve-day trip to South America; who toyed with publishing a book consisting of pictures of walls and for years, photographed every hotel room in

which he had slept with a woman.

Sottsass devoted his life and work to dismantling the past in his various roles as architect, industrial designer, glass maker, publisher, theoretician and ceramicist.

And what of his relationship with Artemide?

Having first me at Memphis Design, Ernesto Gismondi – Artemide’s founder – was responsible for overseeing the various editions Sottsass worked on. “Freedom of expression was central to the Memphis movement and Ettore brought this philosophy to his designs for Artemide,” Gismondi tells darc. “Both of Ettore’s designs for Artemide also adhere to the Memphis philosophy that colour is integral to life, with both his Callimaco and Pausania lights featuring bright colours. The shapes of the designs are also far from traditional, demonstrating the Memphis tendency to modify shapes in order to create the unexpected and unfamiliar. By combining

Ettore’s freedom to experiment with Artemide’s specialist technical expertise and knowledge of production methods, we were able to create designs that were both sensual and exciting as well as functional.”

In Pausania, Sottsass has taken the classic ‘banker’s lamp’ and experimented with the shape and colour in order to produce a Memphis take on the traditional design.

Pausania’s technology has been reimagined to adapt to today’s standard’s of intelligent, eco-friendly, and energy efficient LED lighting.

Callimaco is among the most original of Artemide’s designs, unique in its own quest; it is a fusion of industrial and lighting design and a powerful statement piece. The Callimaco has been reimagined with retrolike features including LED lighting and touch dimmer. www.artemide.com

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A New Lease Of Light Skinflint is one of the UK’s leading vintage lighting studios, Assistant Editor Emma Harris talks to co-founder Sophie Miller about the salvage and restoration of the studio’s mid-20th century lights.

Images: courtesy of Skinflint

Skinflint was founded by husband and wife team Chris and Sophie Miller. The first time they met, Chris tried to convince Sophie to sell him a set of opaline pendant lights she had rescued from a condemned Victorian hospital (she said no). With Chris’s background in lighting design and Sophie’s background in art direction they combined their skillsets and love of travel into salvaging and restoring beautiful, long forgotten lights.

Sophie grew up between London and Cambridge, with an architect father, so design was always central to their family life, as she explains:“I studied fine art at Central St Martins College and graduated in the mid 90’s. I’ve always been a creator and I’ve always ignored the divisions between things. When I was studying fine art I was also doing film - lighting is integral to both so for me painting, drawing, set design, collecting and restoring beautiful things is just part of the same picture, you can paint with light, create with it. You can instantly change the mood of a room with light.”

After graduating Sophie worked in film and television as an art director, buyer and stylist on music videos, BAFTA winning BBC dramas and commercials for brands such as

VW and Christian Louboutin.

“I worked constantly for about seven years on a really wide range of projects,” she continues. “I decided to move on from the industry because I wanted a better work/ life balance, which working in film didn’t afford me. I still wanted to work creatively and I have always collected lovely objects - when Chris and I were younger and backpacking around India we carried home this very beautiful and very heavy electric fan in bits in our rucksack, we just knew we wanted to combine our skills and love of design.”

Chris Miller trained as a product designer at Sheffield University before working as a lighting designer for Isometrix Lighting and Design and iGuzzini UK. In 2007, while working as lighting design consultants Sophie and Chris were asked to pitch for a residential project in Primrose Hill, one of the most exclusive and expensive residential areas in London. “We were very small at that point, we didn’t have the store we have now and we were up against some big names, so honestly we didn’t think anything would come of it,” says Sophie. “We got the job and the owners insisted that every light sourced

should be an original, reclaimed vintage light.”

This lead to an 18-month hunt that spanned the UK, finding the right pieces to complement the project’s architecture and design. “We built up a lot of contacts and sourced a lot of lights. That project really extended our knowledge base.

It was a natural progression for us and combined both of our passions. We’re also very passionate about the environment.

The ethos of everything being reclaimed, recycled and reused is really important to us.”

Through the myriad of contacts the duo have built up over the years, lights often to come to them. “People will contact us when they’re refurbishing a space, when they get round to taking out all of the old lighting they’ll call us and let us know they are available,” Sophie explains.

Their latest salvage is from a church in Surrey, England. Dating back to 1925 the lights were installed when the church was first electrified. A central part of the community, it is highly likely that the church was one of the first buildings in that area to have electricity.

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over Europe, to factories, hospitals, schools and even abandoned asylums.

“We didn’t manage to salvage any lights from there but we took a look around Bodmin Mental Asylum before it was demolished, it was fascinating finding out the history of the building. People would be transported from the courthouse where they were convicted of their supposed mental disease in an underground tunnel that ran into the Asylum. It was a really eerie place, patients were segregated in wards named after the areas they came from because the Victorians believed that mental illness travelled in the air.”

The designer’s latest line of restored oxide lights hail from the old Rolls Royce factory in Derby. “That was a pretty special salvage,” Sophie enthuses. “It’s so much

a part of our heritage and it was a really interesting collection of lights. There was such a wide cross section of lights from a single site, outdoor shades, bulkhead lights and indoor shades. The quality of the lights was amazing. People used to invest a lot more into lighting than they do now and that has a lot to do with mass production, the lights we salvage tend to come from the 1920’s and stop somewhere between the 60’s and 70’s once value engineering stepped in. These lights have outlived the buildings they were initially intended for.”

Iconic vintage lighting brands such as Revo, Holophane, Benjamin Electric and G.E.C have all been restored to meet modern standards and found a new lease of life in a wide array of contemporary hospitality and residential projects thanks to Skinflint.

The needs of the lights vary, each one is individually assessed and their path through the restoration process is carefully planned and a schedule of works is drawn up for each one. The out-dated wiring and old components are removed and safely recycled then replaced with new fittings, Lamp size is taken into consideration and in order for them to fit a modern lump and illuminate from the specific point the original makers had in mind, a lamp holder is installed which places the lamp precisely at the right point for the fixture. The rest of the parts are sent to a subcontractor who may be aqua or soda blasting, polishing, linishing, oxidising, waxing, sealing or powder coating depending on the needs of the light.

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workshop, reassembled, tested and photographed by the team, ready to be sold on the website and used in residential or commercial projects such as Padella in Borough Market.

“That was one of my favourite projects we’ve worked on,” says Sophie. “They opted for the Opaline Czech pendants from the 1950’s and personalised them with their own logo, they’re such beautiful and timeless products. It was a nice marriage of the old and new.”

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“We’re working on next year’s spring/ summer collection which will be very exciting and a bit different to anything we’ve done before and we have some beautiful cut glassware coming, which I’m very interested in at the moment.

We’re always learning about new lights, researching their history, and working out different ways we can treat the metal or preserve it. It’s an on-going learning experience. www.skinflintdesign.com

Opening spread Sophie and Chris Miller, Co-Founders of Skinflint. Previous page Opaline cheque pendants salvaged from the Czec Republic hang in the window of Burrow Market’s Padella restauarant. This page Salvaged, vintage lights are lovingly and expertly restored to modern standards in the couples studio.

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Electrolight Folio is our regular feature highlighting the importance of decorative lighting in the work of a design studio. This issue we present Electrolight.

Founded in Melbourne, Australia in 2004, the practice has grown to include studios in Sydney, San Francisco and London, featured here is a selection of it’s Austrailian portfolio.

Pics: Rohan Venn Photography

Absinthesalon MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA The lighting design for Absinthesalon Melbourne underlines the bohemian feel and ritual mood of a place far, far away. The bar features a field of glowing faux-tulips suspended from the ceiling above, veins of light are feeding the tulips, their petals creating small lanterns that provide an angelic and delicate glow. Entry to the bathrooms is dominated by a custom floor lamp inspired by the distillation process.

Chadstone Dining Terrace MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA The Dining Terrace provides a selection of restaurant dining options and is sheltered by a three dimensional diamond ceiling in a dark bronze, reflective finish.

A lighting strategy was conceived that drew attention to the ceiling by positioning a custom brass and glass luminaire within every second diamond grid throughout the mezzanine. These glowing spheres of glass and brass illuminate the illustrious form and materially of the ceiling grid, creating a layer of interest and sparkle and ultimately resulting in a focal point within the dining precinct.

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Rosetta SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA The lighting design for Rosetta looks to capture the energy and atmosphere of a classic Italian brassiere set in the 1970’s, full of lux and glamour. Entry is via a lobby at ground floor level, where guests are welcomed into the strong Italian theme via a stunning custom chandelier. Lighting features are presented in various forms to enhance the charm of each space. Customisation has been used throughout, with in-joinery lighting and bespoke feature luminaires.

The result is a dining experience full of pizzazz and the Italian spirit.

El Camino Cantina SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA El Camino is a bold statement in casual dining, accentuated by the drama and theatrics of an interior full of music, colour and light. Almost every luminaire required a customised solution, Electrolight conceptualised, detailed and supervised the fabrication process for over 30 bespoke luminaires, including recycled car headlamps, recycled fluorescent fan lights and glowing buffalo skulls.

Pier One SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA Inspired by the organic form and movement of ocean creatures, the Squelette sculptural light is made up of three bodies, each with over 300 parts which required accurate modelling in 3D software prior to fabrication.

Each rib component is suspended utilising gravity to hold its intended form, balancing on the central stringer. The minimised weight of the selected materials allowed the work to float with only two thin suspension points on each piece.

The result is a suitably alluring and mesmerising work, offering a deep connection to the purpose and location of the site.

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CASE STUDY | ECONOMY HOTEL

Designer Digs The world of tasteless economy hotels and hostels is thankfully becoming a thing of the past and more and more hotel operators are investing in considered design, with lighting a huge part of that, as the following case studies highlight.

Thistle Express Luton, UK Newly opened, just minutes from Luton airport and with a view of the St George’s Square fountains, Thistle Express Luton may be a budget hotel but offers guests excellent value for money; rooms start from just £39 and includes free breakfast, tea and coffee on tap and free WIFI. Part of the GLH Hotel group, Thistle Express Luton recently partnered with interior design studio Faber Design which specialises in hospitality interiors.

“The design for Thistle Express is all about simplicity and quality.” says Tony Matters, Design Director of Faber Design. “It's a contemporary hotel that aims to provide effortless convenience and incredible value.

The challenge for us as designers was to conceive a scheme that would enable the cost effective refurbishment of existing hotels, transforming the space but without major building works.”

Key to achieving the desired contemporary look and feel at the hotel was the lighting.

Faber Design chose British lighting brand Astro Lighting to illuminate the 152 bedroom suites throughout the hotel. “Astro was the perfect partner for this project; good design and fantastic quality, at costs that were entirely realistic for a project of this nature.” says Matters. “The support we received from the team at Astro was fundamental in helping us achieve the goals

for this project. It's also great to be able to say we have used a great British lighting company!”

Astro’s Petra and Ios white shade wall lights were used to create soft light patterns across the bedroom walls, while Joel Table lights in a polished chrome finish offer guest’s efficient task illumination when needed.

Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, Astro is committed to British lighting design and have a passion for quality and engineering precision. Astro’s creative ethos has remained consistent throughout – that good design demands simplicity. www.astrolighting.com

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Le Metropole Montpellier, France French lighting brand Designheure collaborated once again with the hotel group Oceania, on a challenging renovation project with bespoke lights for hotel Le Metropole in Montpellier, France.

Built in 1898, the Oceania Le Metropole is a four-star hotel that successfully blends charm with modernity, with a light touch of exoticism, in the spirit of the great Belle Epoque luxury hotels. From the hotel’s entrance and lobby, through the cosy English bar and La Closerie restaurant, not forgetting the prestigious lounges, the decoration has been completely restyled to restore all the former panache and character of the place. Light features everywhere – from the broad glass roof of the restaurant to the majestic stairway in the lobby, perfectly showcased by a magnificent and elegant suspension that

floats in the air.

The hotel chose a white and gold chandelier from Designheure's collection Nuage for its elegance and pure lines, enhancing the character of this 19th century hotel. This timeless collection takes its inspiration from the prow of a ship, and the use of textile lampshades and cords softens the ambiance.

The technical challenge on this project was to install a light to fit the height of the fivefloor staircase. Designheure’s team worked for several weeks on a bespoke Nuage chandelier, that starts from the ceiling, highlights each floor then comes down in the lobby, just above the old hydraulic lift.

As the staircase didn’t allow the cables to be fixed, the lampshades have been installed under the ceiling of each floor. The result - an impressive and theatrical light, which sublimates the space and invites

guests to continue their visit to the 96 rooms and suits.

Rooms and suites are personalised, paying tribute to the different times of day: the warmth of the southern sunshine, a subtle blend of oranges and purples evoking a stunning late afternoon, or the enveloping gentleness of midnight blue and copper of the setting sun.

The mix of Grand Nuage floor lamps, Moyen Nuage table lamps and Petit Nuage wall lamps, in blue / gold and white diffusing, offer the space the perfect balance between modernity, comfort and design.

This project has been a real success, thanks to the mutual trust and real partnership developed since 2011 between Designheure and the Oceania Hotels group. www.designheure.com

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Premier Inn Frankfurt, Germany Designer lighting brand Bright Goods has completed an installation of its LED filament lamps into Premier Inn’s new build hotel in Frankfurt - creating vibrant illumination that complements the striking interior, designed with a distinct British theme.

Whitbread’s 210 bedroom Premier Inn, the first of a national expansion programme in Germany and which opened last year, is located next to the Messe Exhibition Ground in Frankfurt. Its position, next to two other hotels, meant the design had to stand out from the crowd and the decorative lighting therefore, visible from the outside, needed to be impressive to entice and welcome guests.

JSJ Design, who has worked with Premier Inn on many of its UK hotel interiors,

collaborated with Hamburg-based designers, JOI-Design to create an interior for a contemporary hotel with an individual design, tailored for the German market.

The multipurpose, ground floor communal area was designed to create a welcoming space with specific zones, separated by open shelves and decorated in bold colours, where guests can relax, dine or work in a peaceful atmosphere. The lighting was instrumental in creating a unique ambience in each area; bright in the work space to warm and inviting in the lounge and dining areas.

JSJ Design specified Bright Goods LED filament lamps including, Rose, Albert, Joseph and Josephine, which were installed throughout the open plan public areas on

the ground floor including the reception and lobby areas and used in the decorative hanging pendant light fittings above the bar area and dining areas, and in the wall lights and floor standing lamps.

Jeremy Scarlett, co-founder of JSJ Designs said: “The open plan layout is designed to be multi-functional, adapting to guests changing needs throughout the day. Lighting plays a huge role in achieving this and the dimming element of the Bright Goods LED bulbs was crucial.

“The filament lamps are almost as much of a design feature as the fittings themselves.

They work very well as part of the overall design scheme and I’d definitely use Bright Goods LED lamps again on future projects.” www.brightgoods.co.uk

Diphy Linea Light Group Material & Design Lighting Ph. Giorgio Gori

OptiLight Technology™ is technology that becomes aesthetics. Transparent and elegant when turned off, the refined point texture engraved on the surface convoys the lighting beam in an optimal way. A Linea Light Group solution whose hardest test bench is the lamp Diphy.

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Maison et Objet Review September 8-12 2017, Paris, France

Light Trend 2017, Invisible

By Akari-Lisa Ishi & Mottoko Ishi Lighting designer duo Akari-Lisa Ishii and Motoko Ishii created an itinerary on Light & Happiness at this year's Maison et Objet.

Seven rooms were utilised, allowing visitors to discover the lights of the future and the power light has over our moods.

The Light Trend area revealed the latest in lighting technologies developed around the theme 'Invisible'.

Six spaces were explored in a different way with contrast moods and the visible and invisible parts of light.

Light Trend was a rich, informative exhibition for professionals that proved whether it is perceptible or not, light lets us see. www.maison-objet.com

Halo XL Ana Roque

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Mozaik Designheure

Made from a careful selection of raw materials used to give life to the most versatile and elegant creations. Ana Roque pieces go through a careful artisanal process that requires a sum of dedication and skill so that they can provide superior quality pieces with remarkable finishes. www.ana-roque.com

A game of simple geometric composition is the idea that inspires OZ, the soft shape of the handblown glass sphere and the geometric shapes of the metal symbolise two opposites that are combined together in a single object. The LED's, generate an amazing blade of light, diffusing through glass shape. OZ can be customised. www.aggiolight.com

Mozaik is an architectural and modulable collection designed to structure the space.
In compliance with the DNA of Designheure, this collection resumes the infinite possibilities of finishes that offer fabrics and textile cord to order it in a graphic and customisable lighting panel, sculpturing the space www.designheure.com

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Combining a love of minimalist design with a passion for new and innovative LED technology, Eden is truly unique.

A contemporary lighting collection that is enigmatic yet functional and draws inspiration equally from sources as diverse as the natural world and modern popular culture. www.bursztyn.fr

A tribute to the former language of the Panton era. Orion is a model for perfectly presented purism, with two models for standing or hanging Orion catapults itself into an ideal orbit in every living environment.Thanks to the numerous choice of colours, you can always achieve that light mood that suits you. www.koziol.de

With a brass shade and a vintage style braided cord, this industrial pendant light will add a few shades of warmth to your interior. Suitable for any minimalist or industrial interiors, this industrial ceiling light looks great when lit with a warm bulb for a softer and inviting illumination.

A sophisticated addition to any interior. www.mullanlighting.com

4. Bubbles Puff - Buff

5. Marquesse Tekna

6. Coral Serip

Puff-buff produces original, air-filled lighting. Custom-made lights based on the unique Bubbles system can be made in various shapes and also on an XXL-scale.

Ideal for commercial and residential interiors, events, tv and fashion shows.

Always impressive, lightweight and energyefficient. www.puff-buff.com

For the very first time Tekna showcased the Marquesse floor light.

This floor light is fitted with a dimmer and is available in gold plated brass, black and white finishing. The light has an LED lamp available in different light distributions for different moods.

A nice edition to any living space. www.tekna.be

The Coral Collection is already a wellknown design from Serip that now presents a hectic model with a vast potential of placement in interiors. The glass pieces fall into the glimpse of marine organisms in a visual combination of great impression.

Dense and robust, this collection integrates a complex system of detail. www.serip.com

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Mister Karton is a project based on designs made of cardboard, with digital manufacturing techniques and artisan assembly. Polaris consists of a 5mm wooden screen, transparent plastic wire and metallic trims. For the perfect lighting effect, 95mm globe lamps are recommended. www.misterkarton.com

Alboran follows the line of minimalism that defines the style of the designer, another concept of pure lines where the effect of light prevails over form.

This composition with its different heights of imetallic screens allows light to flow creating a degradation of intensities with great subtlety and elegance. www.mantralighting.co.uk

Zosia is a modern brass and glass floor light, anchored at a distinctive angle by an orb.

Made entirely of solid brass, this floor light stands at 6ft 5� with a long cord and inline on-off switch and plug.

Easily adaptable to any environment, Zosia is a stylish and unique focal point for any living area. www.schwunghome.com

4. Ripples VITA Copenhagen

5. Deevika NKUKU

6. Metal Suspension Boboboom

The endless miles of seashores surrounding Scandinavia, with their small waves formed by the soft breeze over the calm sea, is what inspired VITA's designers to create the VITA Ripples lampshade. Ripples embodies the Nordic feel and beauty – its timeless design will bring a cosy feeling of warmth and harmony into your home. www.vitacopenhagen.com

The stylish Deevika pendant makes a striking feature, its elegant shape and oxidised steel cage combine to create an eye catching focal point to a room.

The curved shape of these oxidised steel cage pendants adds definition and form.

Use a LED filament lamp to really complete look. www.nkuku.com

Light, multi-coloured and easy to install, the metal suspension lights from Boboboom find their place everywhere in the house.

Reminiscent of the farmhouse kitchens of yesteryear, their current form is suitable for all interiors and can be clustered and built upon depending on your space.

Various colour combinations are available. www.boboboom.com

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1.Spine Ciara O'Neill

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On show: 100% Design

On show: Decorex

On show: designjunction

Spine was born out of a period of intense experimentation while investigating the sculptural potential of fluted polypropylene. This industrial material when coated with bookbinding fabric has many qualities that make it perfect for lighting. It is strong, light weight,and can achieve subtle layers of light diffusion. www.ciaraoneill.co.uk

Orion’s glass sphere is wrapped in a satin gold ring that conceals a Low Voltage LED strip. This 2700k light source reflects off the golden surfaces, and is then diffused and refracted across and through the surface of the entire globe.

At a mere 7W, Orion is a highly energy efficient luminaire. www.baroncelli.com

Stark, elegant and resolute, the Pipeline 40 Table lamp and Pipeline 125 Floor lamp stands upright, balancing on a chrome mirror weighted base reflecting its stance and creating the illusion of floating.

Pipeline emits a wide vertical beam through a specially developed diffuser designed to soften LED light while maximizing output. www.andlight.ca

4. Platonic Blankture

5. Fuchsia MacMaster

6. Messina/Kernel Bert Frank

On show: London Design Fair

On show: 100% Design

On show: Decorex

The design for this Stackable has been inspired by the classic dodecahedron shape and is comprised of the finest pine from the vast forests of Scandinavia, etched brass detailing and handmade vegetable tanned leather details. Stack several on the same cord, use one as a statement piece or create your own unique cluster design. www.blankture.com

The Fuchsia pendant is a floral inspired wooden pendant light. Handmade in England this pendant uses sustainable timbers and an LED bulb to create a visually captivating piece. The bulb is concealed from direct view and the unique shape uses reflection to bounce light and create a stunning warm glow. www.macmasterdesign.com

A master of contrast, these lights set striking, linear silhouettes against elegant curved contours.

Each design is imbued with a sense of sophistication with clever design details such as intricate perforations in brushed shades to softly diffuse light and timeless chain switches. www.bertfrank.co.uk

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2. Cairo Triple Martin Huxford

3. Witt Rich Brilliant Willing

On show: designjunction

On show: Decorex

On show: designjunction

Made in Newzealand Tri is an elegant pendant lamp, whose geometric form resembles the inside of an equilateral triangle. Tri contains a very high quality LED light source, which is elegantly diffused through a recessed acrylic diffuser. Entirely handmade, Tri is a modern alternative for home, office or retail spaces. www.resident.co.nz

Martin Huxford’s Cairo Collection of pendant and table lights, is a graphic contemporary design inspired by the modern Deco and Memphis movements.

The innovative design employs the latest CNC machining, alongside celebrated traditional skills including the ancient lost wax casting technique. www.resident.co.nz

Witt is a modular, geometric take on the traditional chandelier. Two glowing, pearllike luminaires are framed by the graphic outlines of five hollow brass cubes, which, like building blocks, allow for endless compositions, they can be hung in a linear procession, both horizontally and vertically; as a cluster or at staggered heights. www.richbrilliantwilling.com

4. Secant Luce Plan

5. Trikonasana Dowsing & Reynolds

6. Mila Matthew McCormick

On show: London Design Fair

On show: 100% Design

On show: Decorex

Designed by Daniel Rybakken, the Secant wall, floor and table light is a series of hand cut crystal discs suspended and supported by a metal skeleton linking the crystal glass with the light engine and the wall or surface below. The lathed anodised aluminium becomes both a visual, tactile and also a symbolic contrast to the glass. www.luceplan.com

Featuring three perfectly balanced pivoting black steel arms, this industrial light is a stunning accompaniment for minimalist interiors. Show off the beautiful filament light bulbs in the contrasting brushed brass bulb holders, then suspend against monochromatic walls to really make a statement. www.dowsingandreynolds.com

Hand blown artisan glass with the soft geometry of bent form.

Through a simple elegance, the glow of pearl-like spheres hang in delicate harmony within nests of precious metal. The Mila pendant is perfect in both commercial and domestic settings; a refined and elegant piece with a signature, graphic language. www.matthewmccormick.ca

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2. Aero David Derksen Design

3. Kling Lamp Petite Friture

On show: designjunction

On show: London Design Fair

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Designed by John Tildesley of Wild + Wood, the Wand Concrete Pendant Lights are a beautiful and simple design. Made from cast concrete using granite aggregates from a quarry in Leicestershire, the concrete ceiling light comes with a stunning, long and energy efficient LED bulb by designer lighting brand, Tala. www.suchandsuch.co

Metal foams are excellent heat exchangers and these airy pendant lamps make optimal use of this property. The foam functions both as a passive cooling element for the powerful LED’s as well as a lampshade.

Available in nickel, copper and patinated copper foams the Aero is a stylish edition to any dining area. www.davidderksen.nl

The Kling lamp by Celia Hannes stands out for both its simplicity and its poetry; a standing or hanging glass bell jar with soft colours that emit a warm and powdery light, the graphite handle highlights its bold attributes.

Available as a table lamp and as a pendant, singular or combined. www.petitefriture.com

4. Flora Nulty Bespoke

5. Skylight Frederik Roije

6. Triangle Philip Watts Design

On show: 100% Design

On show: London Design Fair

On show: Decorex

A spiral of light is formed from 24 petalshaped 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 doubleframe circular structure at the top of the house. Gold leaf has been hand-applied to each shade. www.nultybespoke.co.uk

Inspired by the skyscrapers that illuminate the horizon by night, Frederik RoijĂŠ designed the pendant lamp Skylight.

Create your own skyline with the different Skylight towers. Available in copper green, brick brown, metal blue and the usual basics dark grey and white. All with a brass detail marking the top of the tower. www.framacph.com

Triangle is one of the latest additions to Philip Watts Design range of wall lights.

Made from solid bronze it works particularly well when used in clusters or as a creative installation across a wall.

Triangle is available in a highly polished finish or a satin brush finish, as shown above. www.philipwattsdesign.com

Artistry from Nature Navicula light davidtrubridge.com

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1. Capsule Janie Knitted Textiles

2. Stem Chandelier Tigermoth

3. Luna Luke Ebbutt James

On show: London Design Fair

On show: Decorex

On show: London Design Fair

Featuring shaded sea green and intricate weaving from British wool, the lighting and materials used in this pendant are hand made in their studio in Nottinghamshire, using knitted braid, woven onto geometric shaped metal frames with a finish of coloured shading inspired by coastal seascapes. www.janieknittedtextiles.com

An elegant hand-crafted metal stem frame, supporting silk douppion shades encased in a delicate metal lattice.

Stock Silks available – birch, celery, fossil, graphite, ink, ivory, orchid, oyster, silver or white. Custom silks available on request.

Available in bronze, flat nickel and gold metalwork and handmade to order. www.tigermothlighting.com

This light makes reference to the early experiments of astronomers to measure distance by using separate points of view to measure the distance of the Moon from the Earth. The shade gives off a cool, calm light, reminiscent of a full moon and the shimmering quality of maple reflects this soft light. www.lukeebbuttjames.com

4. Teardrop Skinflint

5. Twins New Citizen Design

6. Glint Studio Susanne de Graef

On show: Decorex

On show: London Design Fair

On show: London Design Fair

These elegant glass and bakelite teadrop pendants date from the 1960s and were salvaged from the former Czechoslovakia where they were used to light tenement buildings. Restored by the Skinflint team, the opaline glass shades create a diffused milky light making them perfect for use in areas where a sublte glow is required. www.skinflintdesign.com

Twins light is a series of lamps that incorporates the diversity of reclaimed ceramics into their production process.

Making every single lamp that is produced unique. An interior design asset both solitary and in rows or groups. For private as well as project use - great in hospitality interiors or new citizens’ workplaces. www.newcitizendesign.nl

While exploring the genesis of artificial light, the studio took inspiration from old Philips lightbulb posters from the early 20th century.

Patterns are translated into shape and material, mixed together with the effects of lightthe Glint Light collection creates interaction with its surroundings. www.susannedegraef.nl

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1. Loop Vij5

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3. Pleated Crystal Marc Wood Studio

On show: London Design Fair

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On show: London Design fair

Designed by Ontwerpduo (Nathan Wierink & Tineke Beunders) the Lloop lamp is adjustable in height by extending or shortening the loop of the electricity cable which comes as the result of a wooden piece attached to the cable, with this the function becomes the decoration, simple and clear with no hidden techniques. www.Vij5.nl

The Metal collection started with the Dino and Peggy shapes taking inspiration from the 50's and artists such as Oppenheim, Jakobsson, Almari. Designed by Guillaume Evrard and extanded to the Tarya collection and many more. Made of brass and metal, the shades come in various colours, all with a warm golden or silver interior. www.gong.co.uk

Handmade in Bohemia and London, Marc’s pleated crystal lights draw upon his love for Czech artisan glass work and British engineered detailing.

The highly prized fine crystal glass sparkles with colour as it refracts the rays passing through, emitting a warm playful glow that looks different from every angle. www.marcwoodstudio.com

4. Kangos Mullan

5. Micro Coolicon Artifact Lighting

6. Minerva Tala

On show: 100% Design

On show: designjunction

On show: designjunction

The Kangos wall light is a traditional wall light finished in black and polished brass.

It features a black and brass pillar with the centre of the pillar attached to a powdercoated black wall bracket using a straight arm. The black pillar is closed with brass fittings top and bottom and interrupted by a polished brass collar in the middle. www.mullan.com

The Micro Coolicon shade is presented as a wall light for an elegant, contemporary twist on vintage industrial design. Perfect for use as a task light in living areas or bedrooms, or as accent lighting in a stylish restaurant or bar. The cut outs in the shade disperse the light more evenly and the polished copper finish creates a warm glow. www.artifact-lighting.com

Nocturne Workshop's Ella is designed as a characterful task light for a desk or a side table. Featuring a brass arm, aluminium shade and steel base, the shade design is based on a lathe work light from the workshop. Its finish is a polished brass arm, with the shade and base painted in guillotine blue. www.talaled.com

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The designs are handcrafted with artisanal time-honored techniques, luxurious materials and unparalleled quality.

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2. Hyde David Hunt Lighting

3. Post Earnest Studio

On show: 100% Design

On show: Decorex

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Sculpted by hand from hot crystal at the furnace side, thousands of Mica flakes are trapped inside a solid glass form; a design singular to CCC Ltd. When assembled, each spike is lit by an integral superbright LED. Available in warm or cool white, or full colour-change LEDs. Wider compositions are just as possible with the ice spike. www.contemporarychandeliercompany.com

A contemporary design with a nostalgic nod to mid-century modern composition.

Made with the finest brass framework in a sophisticated butter finish and completed with hand spun metal shades, painted in Marston and Langinger’s paint palette.

Shown here in Arctic White, all of the colourways deliver an architectural thrust. www.davidhunt-lighting.com

A series of lamps based on a single, independent, LED light source, which can be attached to one of four cylindrical steel armatures, designed for the table, floor, ceiling and wall. The sources are fastened with a magnetic connection, which allows them to be arranged in an unlimited number of positions and orientations. www.earnestly.org

4. Fin Original BTC

5. Minor Flaws Stoft Studio

6. Dorsey Delightfull

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The Fin with its eye-catching bone china shade, has been moulded in to intricate organic shapes, creating dramatic light when lit, is now available as a Table, Floor and Wall Light.

Handmade in Stoke-on-Trent, the distinctive shades are angled on to a satin chrome stem and base. www.originalbtc.com

Minor Flaws is a collection of individual objects in glass and brass, beautifully flawed and unique in their appearance.

Stoft hope to show that what some define as imperfection is true perfection in the eyes of others.

Made from mouth blown glass and brass rings. www.stoft-studio.com

Inspired by jazz trumpet player Tommy Dorsey, allying the best of ancient techniques with the modern expertise of high- craftsmanship, Dorsey is a handmade brass chandelier, with aluminum lamp shades. The telescopic tubes that make up the body boast a gold-plated finish, while the lamp shades are matte black. www.delightfull.eu

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Design and technology blend on a floor area of around 150,000 m2 – get ready!

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Bright Lights of London In case you missed anything, darc brings you a handful of lighting highlights from London Design Festival 2017.

British furniture manufacturer and retailer, SCP joined forces with British LED lighting brand Tala, for Under the Arches - a one-day immersive furniture and lighting exhibition, as part of London Design Festival. Located in a former train station booking office, beneath the overground railway bridge at Shoreditch’s busiest intersection, Under the Arches celebrated East London’s creative history and the best of British design.

Spanning 3,000sqft, the exhibition featured three specially curated room-sets comprised of both brands latest designs, situated within the two beautifully-restored arches that characterised the unique layout of the space.

Tala unveiled the Voronoi collection along with the world’s largest sculptural lamp, the Voronoi III, while also showcasing the Basalt collection, first shown at Euroluce in April, and its Porcelain collection which is now on the market.

Linking the two arches was BLOCK - a bespoke, introspective, mirrored light display that responded to the movements of those who came into close contact with it.

Designed by Tala, BLOCK was formed from over one thousand lamps. www.talaled.com

British product designer Lee Broom unveiled ON REFLECTION during this year’s London Design Festival, a surreal modernist tableau set within his Shoreditch flagship store.

Celebrating his tenth London Design Festival, the exhibition showcased the launch of a capsule collection of limited edition designs from the past decade reinterpreted in black.

ON REFLECTION saw the Shoreditch flagship store completely transformed for the week long event and Broom presented a unique and surprising tableau which took inspiration from Art Deco and Bauhaus style. On first appearance visitors to the show were immersed in the dark atmospheric black and charcoal grey room but the scene was not quite as it first appeared to be.

Standing in front of the ‘mirrored’ interior visitors appeared to cast no reflection. A layered and thought provoking exhibition, Broom created an identical and parallel room with each object placed precisely in reverse to create the deceiving optical illusion. A space of two halves, on reflection the true nature of the tableau and its surprising and surreal twist was revealed.

The new all-black editions revealed a mix of limited edition designs, which included the Mini Crescent Light, Altar Chair and On The Rock glassware presented alongside new all-black Carousel and Fulcrum Light editions.

Bringing to a close a landmark celebratory year, in signature style, Broom also hosted a highly anticipated ten-year rooftop party. With the location remaining secret until 24 hours prior to the party, Broom entertained over 400 guests in the NCP car park Shoreditch. www.leebroom.com

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The portfolio of French lighting brand Magic Circus was shown for the very first time in London as part of this year’s London Design Festival. Showcased at Long&Waterson - a new residential destination in Shoreditch, the brand draws its inspiration from the personal preferences and tastes of company founder Marie-Lise Fery, art school graduate turned iconoclastic antique dealer.

Her experience as a dealer has given her the opportunity to develop her own eye for style, expand her client base, create daring contrasts and test her room presentation and decoration skills in a series of projects.

Her personal inclination towards the aesthetic of the 1920’s and 30s, her admiration for the world of cabaret and the stage, her feel for fantasy and love of humour come together to create a unique and extremely modern spirit that perpetuates the French lifestyle tradition.

The opaslescent glass and brass 01 Collection continues to grow, with the central shaft offered in six basic colours - with new applications now available. Table lamps, standard lamps, wall lamps and ceiling lamps now provide a fitting complement to the initial designs. Brass remains the material of choice and is offered in a lacquered polished version, with the option of a natural version that evolves over time and assumes its ultimate patina for a few months.

Each lighting piece is handmade with hand-blown glass and the bespoke metal finishes are crafted in a workshop using traditional techniques and expertise. Whether turned on or off, each has an undeniable presence defined by its restrained lines, familiar decorative spectacular and undeniably modern effect. www.magic-circus.fr

The latest collection from Tom Raffield, launched during London Design Festival, continues his signature curved aesthetic, incorporating steam-bent elements into a range of solid, sustainably sourced oak furniture and lighting. Stand out lighting pieces include the Mooring table light and Mooring floor light, whose coloured flex follows the silhouette of their steam-bent arms from base to bulb.

Also new is the Stem table lamp, Cape pendant and Hanter wall light. The latest addition to the Stem family, the new table lamp features a slender steam bent oak arm and perfectly proportioned Helix lampshade. With timber petals taking their shape from the wake of a wave, the Cape pendant light casts intriguing shadows when illuminated and makes a statement whether switched on or off. The new Cape wall light follows this as part of the new collection. A simple yet elegant design, the Hanter wall light suspends its decorative brass filament lamp from a gently curving wooden arm, steam-bent from a single piece of solid oak.

Each piece of Tom Raffield furniture and lighting is inspired by nature and shaped by hand at the Cornish workshop, a creative space which provides a fitting backdrop for a team of skilled craftsmen.

“Each piece we create has been on an experimental journey – individual, organic and carefully considered,” explains Tom Raffield, designer and maker. “Using wood from sustainable forests, coupled with the low energy steam bending process, it is very ecological with little wastage.

“Our new products balance beautiful craft with modern design to celebrate living spaces with fine pieces of art. These are pieces that will be cherished in owners’ homes for years to come.” www.tomraffield.com

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Darc Room Shines in London Held over three days during London Design Festival, the lighting specification exhibition darc room turned the lighting trade show concept on its head with creativity and design being the key elements.

It has long been noted that lighting has not really been part of the London Design Festival programme. Sure, there have always been lighting elements as part of installations and design shows, but there hasn’t been an event dedicated to lighting.

This all changed when darc room, London Design Festival’s creative lighting specification exhibition organised by darc and arc magazines with Light Collective, attracted over 1,000 attendees for its inaugural event in the heart of London. darc room is a curated, creative lighting exhibition in the heart of London for specifiers and designers. The event offered inspiration and solutions for anyone involved in lighting specification by featuring high end lighting suppliers, creative light installations and a speaker programme involving lighting designers, light artists, product designers and architects.

Paul James, director of darc room,

commented: “We are delighted with the way the first darc room was received by the lighting community and by the London Design Festival public. Everyone who came commented on how great the concept was and how amazing the space looked.”

Light installations included ‘Sunlight Graffiti’ by Olafur Eliasson’s Little Sun project giving visitors a chance to leave their mark in a unique way by creating their own Sunlight Graffiti images with a Little Sun solar lamp. Light art was also provided by lighting designers creating a series of geodesic domes with integrated light taken from the darc night architectural event celebrating the best in lighting design.

The extensive speaker program, darc thoughts, included artist and innovator Daan Roosgaarde who discussed ‘Landscapes of the Future’; Felix Hallwachs, CEO of Olafur Eliasson’s Little Sun solar light project; Kerem Asfuroglu of Speirs + Major; Daniel Stromborg of Gensler; Dean Skira;

Eoin Billings; Flynn Talbot; Rebecca Weir; Tapio Rosenius and Paul Nulty.

Critical acclaim for darc room was incredible with Wired magazine listing it in its ‘Ten Must See’ events at London Design Festival.

Jonathan Rush, partner at Hoare Lea, commented: “darc room was great. Relaxed and informal, it was nice to see some more artisan suppliers mixed with big names. No big stands - all very democratic.” www.darcroom.com

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Sleep Preview November 21-22 2017, London, UK

Sleep Talking WOW Architects | Warner Wong Design Hot on the heels of their much talked about guest room design for last year’s Sleep Set, the show welcomes back from Singapore the principals of WOW Architects | Warner Wong Design, Maria Warner Wong and Chiu Man Wong. In conversation with Guy Dittrich they will look at their responsibilities as designers to create a new meaning in hotel luxury - one that does not give into the luxury of more but looks beyond to memory creation, giving back and participatory design.

The session will take place on Wednesday November 22 from 15:00 - 15:45. www.thesleepevent.com

Mercury Artemide

Aurora Sans Souci

Laminis Fabbian

Artemide has always collaborated with a pool of leading international talent. One of its longstanding collaborators is Ross Lovegrove whose decorative designs are inspired by the logic and beauty of nature.

Lovegrove’s Mercury is a floating assembly of large reflective, aluminium pebbles that bounce light between surfaces. www.artemide.com

Sans Souci is a Czech designer and producer of decorative lighting fixtures, glass objects and architectural features. At Sleep it will launch Aurora by designer Katarina Kotulakova, a spectacular, technologyenabled glass LED lighting fixture made from two layers of handblown glass and controlled by an iPod. www.ss-gd.com

The single tiles of the Laminis chandeliers combine together like a precious mosaic to create multi-sided luminous structures discretely enriching each ambient and opening scenarios for any project. Great attention has placed on the production of the glass panels made entirely by hand by master glass-makers with melted glass. www.fabbian.com

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2. Kenney Elstead

3. Roundabout Collection Quasar

Winner of the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise: International Trade 2017, Chelsom will feature stand-out pieces from its Edition 25 collection. Designed with the international hospitality marketplace at its core, Edition 25 is a truly eclectic lighting collection that harnesses and refines the latest trends in finishes and materials. www.chelsom.co.uk

The Kenney LED flush wall light is a midcentury modern design in a Sunrise Silver finish. It has a geometric motif stamped out of the steel frame, which floats over a white line shade to create depth and visual interest. The dramatically tall sconce (60cm) features integrated LEDs behind the fabric. www.elsteadlighting.com

Designer Ralf Frickel took inspiration for Quasar's most recent lighting product from the humble roundabout. The circular shaped lighting objects have already proven themselves as a classic - popular as a standalone item in residential spaces, they are also loved by architects and interior designers for commercial spaces. www.quasar.nl

4. Mold Ligne Roset

5. Pearl Heathfield

6. Edge Reader Astro Lighting

Ligne Roset will showcase its new chocolate-coloured concrete Mold ceiling light designed by Ukrainian industrial designer Kateryna Sokolova. The lamp’s form was inspired by the natural imperfections apparent in the technological process of production of ceramics, concrete and plastic casting molds. www.ligne-roset.com

Heathfield, will showcase its Pearl lighting collection alongside other product ranges at Sleep.

Pearl’s seven unique pieces are inspired by the radiance and timeless allure of natural pearls and features spherical opal glass detailing finished with luxurious polished brass metalwork. www.heathfield.co.uk

The Edge Reader wall light has won its second award this year; the German Design Award 2018. The Edge Reader combines ambient lighting with the directional functionality of an LED reading light. The minimalist architectural structure enables the light to blend into the room even when not in use. www.astrolighting.com

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Downtown Design Preview November 14-17 2017, Dubai, UK

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The varying colours, transparency and continuously changing shapes – characteristic features of a soap bubble inspired this lighting collection from Czech Republic-based Bomma.

Each piece is freely handblown, no moulds are used and each is different in shape and colour. www.bomma.cz

An updated version of an award-winning classic. Gira is the result of careful consideration and synthesis and has become a benchmark both at work and in the home where a discreet, useful lamp is sought. It has a straightforward shape, easy adjustment of the angle of light and features a new brass shade. www.santacole.com

The Mondrian collection is dedicated to the determinant Dutch painter Piet Mondrian and his abstract work based on strict grids and three primary colours. The evident pattern in each Mondrian piece relates directly to the lines resulting from the wind touching the sand, a reflection present in a luminous shape. www.serip.com.pt

4. Moss VISO

5. Nostalgia Studio Italia

6. King Preciosa

Beauty meets functionality. Uplift any interior with a special fixture that is also energy efficient. Made from high-quality polycarbonate, surrounded by LED lamps, Moss is the perfect balance between nature and technology. Available in three metallic finishes and two globe options - the possibilities are endless. www.visoinc.com

The Nostalgia is a retro shape that blends with modern lines - in this way the expertise of blown glass production and the most advanced LED technology come together allowing ample and balanced compositions to light up anything from a dinner table to the luxury of a hotel atrium with breathtaking precious finishes. www.studioitaliadesign.com

King continues the tradition of the Preciosa brand via its connection with the iconic historical chandelier, ‘Maria Theresa’.

In production, the glass-masters use a traditional technique of making crystal arms entirely by hand. Its construction is golden, covered in black crystal and filled with golden spheres. www.preciosa.com

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A look ahead to forthcoming design shows with a strong lighting element.

LIGHT MIDDLE EAST • DUBAI 17-19 October 2017 (www.www.lightme.net)

HONG KONG LIGHTING FAIR • HONG KONG 27-30 October 2017 (www.hktdc.com)

PLDC • PARIS 1-4 November 2017 (www.pld-c.com)

DESIGN SHANGHAI • SHANGHAI

BDNY • NEW YORK

14-17 March 2018 (www.designshanghai.com)

12-13 November 2017 (www.bdny.com)

LIGHT + BUILDING • FRANKFURT

DOWNTOWN DESIGN • DUBAI

18-23 March 2018 (www.light-building.messefrankfurt.com)

14-17 November 2017 (www.downtowndesign.com)

INDEX • DUBAI

SLEEP • LONDON

26-29 March 2018 (www.indexdesignseries.com)

21-22 November 2017 (www.thesleepevent.com)

SALONE DEL MOBILE / DESIGN WEEK

IMM COLOGNE • COLOGNE

• MILAN

15-21 January 2018 (www.imm-cologne.com)

17-22 April 2018 (www.salonemilano.it)

MAISON ET OBJET • PARIS

RETAIL DESIGN EXPO • LONDON

19-23 January 2018 (www.maison-objet.com)

2-3 May 2018 (www.retaildesignexpo.com)

ARCHITECT@WORK • LONDON

ICFF • NEW YOTK

24-25 January 2018 (www.architect-at-work.com)

20-23 May 2018 (www.icff.com)

SURFACE DESIGN SHOW • LONDON

CLERKENWELL DESIGN WEEK • LONDON

6-8 February 2018 (www.surfacedesignshow.com)

22-24 May 2018 (www.clerkenwelldesignweek.com)

STOCKHOLM FURNITURE FAIR • STOCKHOLM

DARC AWARDS / DECORATIVE • LONDON

6-10 February 2018 (www.stockholmfurniturelightfair.se)

31st May 2018 (www.darcawards.com/decorative)

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David Trubridge..................................................................79

Linea Light Group............................................................... 71

Architonic...............................................................................95

designheure........................................................................IBC

Martin Huxford....................................................................89

ateljé Lyktan..........................................................................39

Fritz Fryer..............................................................................85

molo........................................................................................8-9

Astro Lighting......................................................................33

Haberdashery........................................................................ 15

Niche......................................................................................IFC

BDNY.......................................................................................97

Hubbardton Forge.............................................................69

Panzeri.....................................................................................53

Bover........................................................................................55

Icone Luce.............................................................................66

Serip.........................................................................................83

Bright Goods........................................................................ 57

Illuminati..................................................................................81

Sleep........................................................................................ 90

Contardi................................................................................... 13

INDEX......................................................................................93

The Light Yard...................................................................4-5

darc awards/decorative................................................ 6-7

Innermost...............................................................................63

Toscot...................................................................................... 75

darc room.........................................................................10- 11

Light + Building...................................................................85

Viso...................................................................................... OBC

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