Disassembled 'Kroon' chandelier by Zmik; photo courtesy of the designers

A Swiss multidisciplinary design studio Zmik have reinterpreted the form and, to some extent, function of an ordinary industrial working light by combining it with high-gloss polished chrome elements in this stellate-shaped chandelier. Incorporating the increasingly-popular LED technology, ‘Kroon’ exists in two different sizes and the light has just been shortlisted by Philippe Starck as one of the 10 finalists for the Frame Moooi Award 2012. (more…)

'One Crystal Chandelier' by Thomas Feichtner for Lobmeyr

The multi-award-winning Austrian designer Thomas Feichtner has recently unveiled his latest pendant lamp design created for the renowned Viennese crystal specialists, Lobmeyr. A contemporary reinterpretation of Lobmeyr’s traditionally opulent chandeliers, Feichtner’s strikingly simple, reduced ‘One Crystal Chandelier‘ consists of a black cable enclosed within a plain bent metal tube, and a single hand-cut crystal which is suspended above the end of the brass structure and lit from below by an LED. (more…)

'Bella Chandelier' by 3XN

Next month the opening of the excentric Bella Sky Hotel, part of the extension of Copenhagen’s famous congress center, the Bella Center, is due. In this context 3XN Architects recently completed the ‘Bella Chandelier’, a light sculpture consisting of more than 700 LEDs, developed in collaboration between GXN designers and a multidsciplinary team of engineers and tensegrity experts.

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‘Branch’ floor lamp and chandelier by Rich Brilliant Willing; photo by Mike Garten

The New York based design trio Rich Brilliant Willing presented a new series of interior lighting during this year’s New York Design Week in May. ‘Branch’ is composed of a central hub and a variable number of plywood branches attached to it. Warm light filters through perforated brass shades. ‘Branch’ is available in different colours and in 1, 2 or 3 head configuration.

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'Arnolfini' light sculpture by Studio Job for Venini, in situ at the Museo Bagatti Valsecchi during this year's Milan Salone del Mobile

Stepping out of the craziness of the Milanese streets during this year’s Salone del Mobile into the serenity of the Museo Bagatti Valsecchi was, if you’ll allow us to be just a little dramatic, like being able to breathe once more. Dutch/Belgian design duo Studio Job’s ‘Arnolfini’ light sculpture for renowned glass manufacturer Venini was one of the true joys of the furniture fair, its virtuosity forming a perfect dialogue with its physical, architectural context.

'Arnolfini' light sculpture by Studio Job for Venini

Following in the footsteps of Gio Ponti, Alessandro Mendini and Ettore Sottsass, who all collaborated with the Venetian glass experts, Studio Job have created a ‘floating still life’ (their words) that consists of pots and pans, beaded onto a traditional, gold-plated chandelier framework. Just don’t ask them what it means. ‘I am afraid we cannot give you a straight answer,’ says Job Smeets. ‘It probably has to do with surreal memories that become monumental icons as time goes by. A vocabulary sculpted in material instead of words.’ We’ll settle for that.


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'Hope' by Luceplan

The Milan based designers Francisco Gomez Paz and Paolo Rizzatto designed this light and delicate chandelier for the Italian lighting manufacturer Luceplan. It is composed of moulded polycarbonate leafs, characterised by a glossy external surface and a textured internal surface treated with a series of concentric micro-prisms. Each leaf is mounted on a thin stem – these stems are finally fixed to a light metal structure, which exists in different sizes.

'Hope' by Luceplan

'Hope' by Luceplan

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'Seven Up' by Tim Baute

With his modern chandelier ‘Seven Up’ the Belgian designer Tim Baute kept at least the nostalgia of the traditional archetype, the materials he used though gave it very minimal and unusual look.

“He used the electricity cables as the central structure. When they bundle up, they form the central core that descends from the ceiling. They then branch off into seven arms. At each end they hold five watt light bulbs mounted on fittings. Fine steel cables attached to a light structure lift the arms, giving them the typical form of the classic chandelier as they hang from the ceiling.”

'Seven Up' by Tim Baute

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'Flashmob' by Henny van Nistelrooy

At the Arnhem Fashion Biennale the London based Dutch designer Henny van Nistelrooy presents this beautiful chandelier made of light reflecting discs that conventionally are used in photography.

Inspired by the biennale’s theme SHAPE, Henny approached this theme is by exploring the characteristics of these visually appealing collapsible discs to create three-dimensional forms. “These discs work like a spring mechanism and I have fixed its outward force in different shapes by bonding the fabric on specific points to the spring steel ring”.

'Flashmob' is made of these light reflecting discs

The process initiated by making different shapes within the transition from the folded flexible ring to flattened out. This exciting form study is concluded in one shape that makes a perfect building element to create a sphere. The configuration of twelve of these elements makes the giant eye-catching chandelier.

“Working with a material that is taken from a discipline that is so closely related to fashion as photography is, the choice of material seems logical to make a lighting object with that fits within this context.”

The Flashmob chandelier is on show at the Arnhem Fashion Biennale in the pavilion of Royal Artez and is open from 6th of June till 6th of July.

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