Arbor
A tribute to nature, Arbor arises from a bundle of linear elements gathered to form a bouquet of stems for light flowers. The product is available in hanging version and ceiling light, with twelve, 20 or 30 lights. Lighting parts are made of aluminium, while beams are made of chromed cold-drawn iron.
Billy TL
Billy represents simplicity of materials and construction at a glance. Like the Billy floor luminaire, the tabletop lamp features three matt-lacquer metal pieces connected to unstained wood, finished in a protective coating. The 17.5cm diameter lampshade ensures directional light in work areas, and Kalmar Werkstätten’s natural-colour signature cord reflects the piece’s industrial heritage.
Hoops
Hoops, by designer Giovanni Barbato, uses curved wire anchored to a coil core with integrated dimmable LEDs, all finished in 24k gold. The collection is available in four suspended versions and two ceiling versions. With up and downlight functions, the LED light becomes a fulcrum of golden circles swirling around it.
Zaha Hadid
Internationally renowned architect Zaha Hadid once again pushed the boundaries of design in her collaboration with WonderGlass for this year’s Milan Design Week.
Fragmented geometry and bold fluid forms ripple through the wake of Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid’s ground breaking work. As the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004, Hadid has worked on projects all over the world, including a collaboration with WonderGlass exhibited during Milan Design Week.
WonderGlass held its showroom in Milan’s Ventura, design district and the city’s historic centre, the grand Instituto dei Ciechi, an institute for the blind. WonderGlass focuses on interactive installations that can not only be seen but also be touched. Hadid’s Luma and Swarm pieces embodied this focus in their display in a dark room with translucent white curtains draping down from high ceilings.
Hadid Design endorses the traditional techniques of glass craftsmanship to explore solutions for futuristic and stylish projects; Luma and Swarm are no exception.
The seamless dialogue of subtle and elegant refractions onto organic surfaces is magnified by the presence of Swarm, a statement chandelier signed by Hadid’s London-based studio. Composed of black crystal volumes suspended in dynamic forms, the intricately layered spatial composition of the chandelier presents itself as a unified whole. From underneath, its separated crystal suspensions can be distinguished, emphasising unity without the restrictions of symmetry.
The Luma chandelier, is another sculptural composition of four tubular segments that follow a radial trajectory and dramatically transform into diamond-shaped luminaries to subtly diffuse light with their materiality. Informed by the precise mathematical principles that define natural surface tension, each individual glass segment has been hand-blown and celebrates the unrivalled logic and beauty found within nature.
Zahid’s new creations testify her focus on quality and exploration, and affirm the WonderGlass drive to find the point of balance between the innovation of the lighting industry, human sensibility and the frontiers of craftsmanship.
Lucie Koldova
Lucie Koldova is a prominent Czech designer based in Prague and Paris. Presented on this year’s Brokis Euroluce stand, her work - ever pure and charismatic - focuses on furniture, glass sculptures, timeless lighting collections and objects of desire.
Born in the Czech Republic in 1983, lighting and furniture designer Lucie Koldova has a passion for developing glass sculptures, lights and furniture pieces that are objects of desire - chic and pure in their design.
Having graduated in 2009 at Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Koldova then moved to Paris to begin her career, where she established her own design studio in order to work with international clients, editors and galleries.
Notable clients include La Chance, Haymann Editions and Gallery S. Bensimon in France; When Objects Work and Per/use in Belgium; and Mmcite, DuPont, Brokis, Lugi, Lasvit and Křehký Gallery in Czech Republic.
Koldova has since exhibited her work around the world and participated in numerous design weeks in Vienna, Milan, London, Paris, Brussels, Stockholm, Tokyo, Berlin and New York and then in 2014 opened a studio in Prague.
Koldova’s work stretches from daily products, conceptual space, urban areas to gallery objects and limited series. She uses mostly classic craftsmanship with a main focus on basic craft materials such as wood and glass. Koldova blends glass and wood while pushing the proportions of her lighting objects to the maximum. The charismatic, clean and elegant result forms the basis of her vocabulary that she has since refined and explored for both Lasvit and more recently Brokis – for whom she is currently Art Director.
At this year’s Euroluce, Koldova premiered her latest Brokis collection Lightline as well as several other new items including the stylish variable lights Flutes, a new wall version of the Mona collection and new material and colour options for existing exclusive lighting series.
Lightline celebrates the material of glass in every component. The design brings together three different glass processing techniques in a single luminous and monumental sculptural object. Hand-pressed glass is used to craft the base, onto which the closed hand-blow glass body of the lamp is fitted. The light source projects its glow upon the top etched plane of the lamp, which in profile appears as a thin line of light hovering over the translucent body of the lamp.
In Flutes we see suspension lights suited for hotel spaces. However, its range of potential application goes far beyond the boundaries of the project specifications.As the name suggests, inspiration for the new collection was found in the flute and the four stylised openings in the body of the light not only embrace that source of inspiration, they allow for an even greater degree of variation – the angle at which the light hangs is dependent upon which opening the suspension cable is passed through.
Koldova enjoys working with contrasts, colours and proportions, which are often pushed to the limits. Her design approach can be described as sensual, innovative with simple yet significant visual language.
Pebble
The Pebble lamp is a form that encapsulates the light, but also allows it to diffuse through a space. The form is available in two different materials - mouth-blown glass and spun steel. The spun steel version with its narrow beam spot, and the glass version with its gleaming mood light are perfect for hotel lobbies as well as a living room.
Available in round and tall versions.
Flintstone
With Flintstone every stone is unique as well as being a functional counterweight. A movable branch arm allows the light to be adjusted and easily moved. The length of the arm is available in different sizes (70cm, 100cm, 130cm, 160cm, 190cm, 210cm and 240cm) and is finished in black, white or high gloss nickel.
Grace
Grace has reinterpreted the traditional lamp with a lampshade. The linen and fibreglass fabric diffuser is structurally self-supporting through Fabrixx technology. The vertical stem features an organic stalk, containing the wiring, which detaches from a light ring-shaped base to grow upwards, towards the lampshade, suspended in the air.
Drum Metal
A wall and ceiling lamp of blown triplex opal glass and satin finished. Features include brushed aluminium reflector and thermo-resistant translucient plastic, anti-uv polycarbonate component-holder, colour variants including neutral, red, orange, blue, green and yellow and a twist-lock system.
Bice
Bice is a ceiling lamp featuring a shade composed of a clear glass outside and a frosted glass inside. The white lacquered steel structure gives the object a feeling of delicacy. It has a diameter of 30cm and a projection of 22cm. The direct and indirect light diffusion is in a warmer colour of LED 2,700K CRI90.
Hangar Design Group
Showcased at this year’s Euroluce, Italian design agency Hangar Design Group collaborates with Vistosi on its latest pendant lamp collection - Futura.
Established in 1980 by Aberto Bovo and Sandro Manente, Hangar Design Group is a multidisciplinary design and communication firm. Right from the start, the aim of the agency was to gather under one name the various departments dedicated to communication, graphics, retail, industrial design and branding strategies. Today, boasting a staff of over 40 collaborators operating in Europe, Asia and the US, Hangar Design Group is an atypical multidisciplinary company with its headquarters in Italy.
Aberto Bovo was born in Padua in 1954. Since graduating in architecture in Venice, he concentrated on the dialogue between various disciplinary activities. Greatly interested in all new cultural phenomena, he is attentive to socio-cultural changes, defining them from the perspective of design to give ‘form’ to the studio’s philosophy. Taking up the role of strategic art director at Hangar Design Group, he is focused on the aesthetic aspect of design, developing a specific professional ability in the field of contemporary creative scenarios. A firm believer in the importance of innovation, since 1990 Bovo has pursued the strategy of the design team, gathering within the studio a large number of young creatives with interdisciplinary skills.
Sandro Manente was born in Venice in 1957. Ever since he graduated and began his career as an architect he studied graphic design and its use on the market as a place of communication. Thus he developed the ability to foresee trends in colour, pattern and materials. Since 1981 he has used this ability in the field of interior design as Associate Partner of Hangar Design Group. A true enthusiast of handicraft skills, his design projects are based on functionality and pragmatism, which adapt design to the needs of manufacturing and production. In Hangar Design Group he coordinates the different departments, paying special attention to the flexibility of the various disciplines involved in the project and, in particular, to visual design.
For this year’s Euroluce show Hangar Design Group collaborated with Vistosi on its Futura pendant lamp collection. Using blown glass, the range is available in three exclusive colours combined with different finishes on the metal ring. With the glass blown in one piece, it is the handcrafted process that makes the colour transparent in the upper part of the lamp and diffuser in the bottom part.
Ibuk
A collaboration between Stéphane Joyeux and Roger Pradier, Ibuk revisits the multi-beam up and down wall fitting, adding a backlit façade. This lighting fixture combines Pradier’s know how in aluminium processing with the power of LED lighting.
