Major Throwback to Most Unforgettable Lighting Designs 2015
1st Feb 2016
FLOS, the marquee lighting design company, presented some of its best designs in 2015. While the company continued to make giant strides in the space of lighting innovation, its designers stretched the limits of creativity and mesmerized the world with their beautiful products.
Here are some of the products that made 2015 such an extraordinarily impressive year:
Shade
Launched in March of 2015, the mysterious Shade is a
masterstroke in lighting design by British designer Paul Cocksedge.
Known for his innate curiosity and penchant for challenging preconceived
notions about lighting design, Cocksedge surpassed himself with his
latest design for FLOS.
The Shade is a floor lamp. But it is quite unlike any other. Nothing like traditional floor lamps, the Shade lamp does not sit on the floor. Instead, it is suspended from the ceiling by
capillary-thin wires that are almost invisible to the eye.
It derives its power from an LED floor fitting that shines an uplight
into the paper shade. The lamp appears to be suspended in mid-air
giving it an almost ethereal, dramatic quality. With
Shade,
Cocksedge has once again managed to challenge the boundaries of
convention and left his audience wondering if it’s a ceiling fixture or a
floor lamp they are looking at. Actually, it’s neither.
It’s magic.
Goldman USB
Ron Gilad, who has mastered the art of walking the fine line between
the abstract and the functional, conjured up another one-of-a-kind lamp –
the Goldman table lamp. It is his version of the traditional
banker’s lamp – characterized by a green glass lampshade, a sleek brass
stand, and the quintessential pull-chain switch. Capturing the true
essence of Emeralite (emerald and light), the
Goldman table lamp is Gilad’s very own account of a modern lamp trapped in its old avatar, with a USB port built into the base.
The lamp went on the shelf in May and is deemed perfect for both
decorative and functional purposes. Modern, energy-efficient, yet
familiar – the
Goldman is truly a class apart.
AIM Small
In August 2015, FLOS launched the AIM Small pendant lamp designed by the French design duo of Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. The
designers have, in the past, produced bestsellers like
AIM and Piani for FLOS. AIM Small is a variant of the massively successful AIM lamp.
It’s the compact design and the adjustable cable of the lamp, which
allows the fixture head to be aimed at a desired point (hence the name)
that sets this lamp apart. According to the designer duo, the general
idea behind the project was to offer a lamp that could be infinitely
adjusted to satisfy all lighting needs.
AIM Small does just that and more – adding a touch of drama to your room.
With their unabashed display of cable, which is typically meant to be
hidden, designers Ronan and Erwan have managed to throw the basics of
conventional design haywire. The cables are adjustable, thus accounting
for the fixture head and light distribution to be aimed as desired in
different settings. This was the principal thought behind the lamp – to
enable it to work with many different light adjustments. True to its
name, the lamp is just about perfect for any setting not only because of
its size or shape, but also because it’s been designed to suitably
“aim” the light to illuminate specific areas of a room.
The impact of the AIM Small is such that while one pendant lamp
manages to effectively highlight an explicit region (or the entire room,
if hung accordingly), a combination of two or more lamps can well light
up the entire room or effectually emphasize on different areas of the
same room, as depicted in the diagram.
Kelvin Pink
The month of September witnessed the launch of a variant of one of FLOS’ most popular designs – the Kelvin LED table lamp. When designers Antonio Citterio and Toan Nguyen designed the stylish and sturdy Kelvin LED table lamp in 2009, little did they know they were creating a phenomenon. The Kelvin LED table lamp went on to become a bestselling product and one that was immediately associated with FLOS.
In fall of 2015, the lamp got a more edgy look as part of online design marketplace Bezar’s color bomb initiative. The Kelvin LED was painted a bold and attractive bubblegum pink and released to the market in limited edition.
The makeover turned the serious and studious looking lamp into a
saucier and brazen version of itself. Pink just turned a shade hotter in
2015.
Clara
The last of the products to be launched in 2015, Clara ceiling lamp hit the shelves in October. Designed by the peerless Italian
maestro Piero Lissoni, who has many masterpieces to his credit,
Clara is simple, effective, efficient, and powerful.
The glow of illumination it provides is homogeneous and comfortable
in its brightness. What makes this light fixture stand apart is its
unpretentiousness. It dares to be understated in a world that believes
in going overboard.
In its design at its purest best – free from dazzle and all its trappings – and in its unobtrusiveness, lies its power.
As we get into 2016, expect more – expect better – expect the best – from FLOS.