Good Things Come in Small Packages David Morgan was keen to take a closer look at Stoane Lighting’s diminutive Pipien spotlight after it took home the KIT Exterior trophy at December’s [d]arc awards.
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hen a company grows over a 25-year period, from the proverbial garage start-up in
Edinburgh to an international architectural
lighting brand that now employs 45 people, there is an interesting story to be told.
Stoane Lighting was founded in 1995 by Mike Stoane, he produced custom-machined
aluminium and steel luminaires in his garage for local lighting
designers in Edinburgh. Early products included low voltage halogen rod systems and chandeliers. The first major spotlight project was
for the Benson + Forsyth 1998 extension to the Museum of Scotland,
with lighting design by Kevan Shaw. The resulting luminaire was the iconic twin cylinder MLX design with the LV transformer housed in the top cylinder.
When Mike Stoane retired in 2014, the company became an Employee Owned company. Stoane Lighting’s EO model is an Employee
Ownership Trust (EOT), meaning the majority of the company’s shares are held in a Trust for the benefit of the employees.
The company continues to produce a variety of high specification luminaires based on machined aluminium and steel components
and one of the latest additions to the range is the diminutive Pipien IP66-rated spotlight. It is understood that requests from lighting specifiers prompted the company to develop Pipien as an IP66-
rated version of the interior-rated Surf Type S spotlight. A number of the functional design features of the Surf Type S luminaire in
terms of adjustability, lockability, durability, changeable optics and re-buildability are incorporated in Pipien. Apparently some of the
design principals used to achieve the IP66-rating for Pipien emerged during the design of the Stoane Bulwark luminaire for a Lighting Design International project for Oyster Yachts.
With a body diameter of only 16.5mm, Pipien incorporates a single Osram Oslon Square LED, which produces a high quality of light output with a clean distribution. The maximum drive current is 500mA, giving a lumen output of 71 lumens with an LED power consumption of approximately 1.5W. Pipien requires a remote David Morgan Associates, a Londonbased international design consultancy specialising in luminaire design and development and is also MD of Radiant Architectural Lighting. Email: david@dmadesign.co.uk Web: www.dmadesign.co.uk
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constant current driver and a number of luminaires can be run in
series from a single driver. Using remote drivers can cause issues
in some situations with long cable runs causing volt drop, but this approach does result in a miniature luminaire design, while also simplifying the construction.