LightMass^
Raw-Edges | 2024
A new in-house lighting collection. Voluminous, minimal, and weightless, our single-material, sustainable structures illuminate space in new ways.
LightMass^ represents a new approach to illuminating space. In this age of high quality LED lighting technology, shades are no longer required to diffuse light. So what next for the light shade? It still has a furnishing function, softening and defining space, but is now freed from conventional forms, and from direct integration with the light source. It has given us the artistic freedom to conceive LightMass^ as sculptural lighting structures that interact with the LED beam in their own way; capturing it, shaping it, recasting it. We call it the lantern effect.
LightMass^ represents a new approach to illuminating space. In this age of high quality LED lighting technology, shades are no longer required to diffuse light. So what next for the light shade? It still has a furnishing function, softening and defining space, but is now freed from conventional forms, and from direct integration with the light source. It has given us the artistic freedom to conceive LightMass^ as sculptural lighting structures that interact with the LED beam in their own way; capturing it, shaping it, recasting it. We call it the lantern effect.
LightMass^ pieces are large in volume but minimal in weight. The captivating relationship between the two is a defining feature that developed through a process of experimentation in material and form. Taking inspiration from the looping framework of the Victorian era’s imposing greenhouses and precisely-engineered bridges, we have designed the unique meshed surface digitally, drawing the intricate weave in one uninterrupted movement. Using additive technology, filaments are fused together to recreate the fluid lines of the design as a flat, airy surface. This is then manipulated into a voluminous, feather-light three dimensional structure, and stitched together like a piece of tailoring.
