Lighting in Design Q2 2019

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Celeste light offers electric alternative to prayer candles

Lighting designer Michael Anastassiades has brought together a collec- tion of his work from the past 12 years for the ThingsThat GoTogether exhibition at The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre in his native Cyprus. The show brings together pieces created for the designer's epony- mous brand with those he has designed for established manufactur- ers including Flos and B&B Italia. As well as finished works from the studio's archive, the exhibition presents the designer's research to give an insight into his working process, alongside his personal collection of objects such as stones he has collected since childhood. Exhibits are laid out on the gallery's marble floor rather than pre- sented in cases or on plinths, allowing visitors to decide their own path through the space. Michael Anastassiades presents his sculptural lighting in retrospective at NiMAC

ÉCAL graduate Marina Daguet has designed a cleaner, modern alternative to the traditional prayer candles found in churches. The Celeste is an electric, votive light that features illuminated electric tubes in place of wax candles. These slot into openings in the table, forming a circle. "I think it's a pity that the elec- tric candlestick holders on themar- ket light up when you put a coin or press a button," said the designer. In her design, each tube lights up when picked up and placed into the table. The lights then slowly decrease in brightness until they eventually go off, just like ordinary flames. "This means you can maintain the gesture [of lighting the candle] and the relation you have with the object," she added.

Luca Nichetto celebrates Josef Frank and Venetian glass in colourful Fusa lamps

Italian designer Luca Nichetto has created a range of glass lights for Swedish heritage brand Svenskt Tenn, marrying together a print by Josef Frank with Venetian glassblow- ing techniques. Fusa is a collection of bulbous floor and table lamps, as well as table-top candle holders, made from Murano glass in a variety of jewel-like colours. The LED light element of the floor and table lamps is enclosed within a frosted glass hood, while the glass candle holders are contained within a globe-shaped clear glass surround.

The stem of each lamp consists of a totem of colourful glass pebbles stacked on top of one another. The murano glass elements contained within the frosted glass hood of the lamps are made in contrasting white or grey glass. Each piece is set on a round brass base, which also acts a dimmer for the user to adjust the strength of the glow of the electric lamps. The colours and the swirling patterns in the Murano glass are Nichetto's "personal interpretation" of the Terrazzo textile design by Josef Frank, one of 160 prints by the prolific Austrian architect in the Svenkst Tenn archive. Frank's prints still form a core part of the design brand's collections.

Iconic Eyes light for Moooi is based on BMW headlights

"I was approached by the Bavarian National Mu- seum because they needed some new lighting. At

Lighting designer Bernhard Dessecker referenced the appearance of BMW headlights to create his Iconic Eyes lamp for Moooi. Munich-born Dessecker studied interior architecture before entering the field of lighting design. "What I love about lighting design is that it is never predictable," he says. Iconic Eyes, Dessecker's first design for Moooi, is an egg-shaped chandelier that comes in two sizes. The fixture is covered with eye-like lenses of frosted glass set inside chrome rings, individually lit by LED lights. Dessecker initially designed the light as a bespoke solution for the foyer of Munich's Bavarian National Museum, which was being renovated at the time.

the same time, I was approached by BMW to see if I was interested in creating a light object made with pieces of BMW head- lights." Dessecker designed the chandelier by experimenting with headlight pieces sent to him by BMW, which is also based in Munich. "I got a huge box from BMW with all sorts of headlight parts, and tried to figure out which ones would be suit- able for a lamp," he says. "It was almost like a puzzle, putting them together in a new way."

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