Lighting Archive

Burgundy Wine Bar/Restaurant Lighting by PSLAB

By
Amie
Published: July 13, 2010Posted in: Architecture, Hotel/ Restaurant, LightingTags: , , ,

PSLAB, a Lebanese company who design and build site-specific lighting, have completed a lighting project for the Burgundy wine bar/restaurant in Beirut, Lebanon.

Description from PSLAB:

A lighting project for a wine bar/restaurant having a substructure of wooden arched beams cutting through a wire mesh covering the ceiling. The setting of the space underneath the substructure is functionally divided into two sections: a bar area and a dining area. Highlighting the dual function, the lighting objects are set on two parallel axes over these two sections.

Suspended from the arcs, each light object is a set of conical tubes conceived to fill a circular-shaped area. Clustering in the circle, the tubes start at the center; moving radially, they begin to deviate at an angle of 25 degrees to reach an angle of 45 degrees. This deviation renders a chandelier-like object, with a bottom curved outline opposite to that of the ceiling. The cluster of the tubes housing the bulbs creates an effect of a singular light source being filtered.

The entrance is lit by a set of black projectors also using the arched beams for fixation; the groove in the beams encloses the technical parts box, while the head of the projector is left loose to rotate shedding light in different directions.

[Via PSLAB]




Funnel Lamps by Bevk Perovic

By
Amie
Published: July 6, 2010Posted in: Design, Furniture, LightingTags: , ,

Slovenian architects Bevk Perovic have designed the Funnel lamp collection for Vertigo Bird.

The lamp’s design owes its form to the funnel, a highly typical household object, something all our grandmothers used in their kitchens, bottling and decanting wine, olive oil and similar throughout their lifetimes.

While a familiar object it’s also been transformed into a new one, hanging above the kitchen or dining table as a recognizable, iconic light source – a small funell that serves as a ceiling rosette, a large one casting light onto the horizontal surface below.

The same elements are further transformed into table and floor lamps, with a large pivoting funnel shade that allows for specific directing of the light. A tube-like ray of light projects up and out of the top of the shade, creating a playful dot on the ceiling or neighbouring walls.

Aria by Massimo Iosa Ghini for Murano Due

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Amie
Published: May 10, 2010Posted in: Design, Furniture, LightingTags: , , ,

Aria is the new lamp designed by Massimo Iosa Ghini for Murano Due, the FDV Group brand that gives expression, through its products, to the synthesis of a meticulous research applied to the glass design and to its techniques of realization. Aria is a refined and ethereal empty crystal bubble which fills with the light flow coming from a LED source hidden in the small canopy of white metal. The invisible light source makes Aria a sophisticated furnishings complement with an almost immaterial presence, in which the form appears only through a captivating trick of reflections. The calibrated and precise design, the lightness of the material and the fascinating effect of light, fit out instyle every housing.

Crystal Bloom Architectural Lighting by Swarovski

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Amie
Published: March 5, 2010Posted in: Design, LightingTags: , ,

A crystal with 170 facets, which hangs in simple beauty like a pendulum, gives off spectacular light effects due to refraction. Offered with LED and a choice of daylight-white at 6700K and neutralwhite at 3400K.

Crystal Bloom, from Swarovski