Contract - March 2016 - 74

DESIGNERS SELECT

Lighting

Designers identify their favorite new fixtures, including
lamps, pendants, sconces, and other types of lighting
Theresa M. Genovese, AIA

Principal
CetraRuddy
New York

Patrick H. Grzybek, AIA

Senior Project Architect
and Senior Associate
Perkins+Will
Chicago

Leslie Kale

Creative Director and Partner
Studio Collective
Los Angeles

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Ochre: Seed Cloud

Philips Lightolier: CorePro LED Downlight

Tom Dixon: Flask

ochre.net

lightingproducts.philips.com

tomdixon.net

"Artistic and beautiful, Ochre's light fixtures bring
an element of whimsy in an elegant way. We
designed and installed a custom Ochre chandelier
in the lobby of a residential building in Midtown
Manhattan, and the process of working with the
manufacturer was a pleasure."

"When designing the sanctuary ceiling for the
Lincoln Square Synagogue in New York, we used
613 LED downlights to reference the number
of commandments in the Torah. The CorePro
retrofit drop-in is also ideal for clients with existing
incandescent fixtures, yielding 80 percent energy
savings and a very long life."

"We used Tom Dixon's hand-blown Flask fixture to add intrigue and
a sculptural touch to a bathroom in a New York condominium project.
These spherical pendants can be hung in multiples or as a single
constellation. The orbs have a smoked-glass hood and a ridged
texture at the base, which reduce glare and help to make the
illumination diffuse, warm, and comforting."

Fluxwerx: Profile

Artemide: Empatia

Cooledge: Line

fluxwerx.com

artemide.com

cooledgelighting.com

"The vertical optics in this functional and unique
product make very efficient use of LED technology
while providing excellent batwing and asymmetric
light distribution. With an available indirect lighting
component, all of this functionality is obtained
within a relatively compact and visually pleasing
product profile."

"This complete family of suspended, surface,
and table-mounted decorative light fixtures
creatively utilizes high-quality glass while
integrating LED technology in a way that I have
not seen in any other product. The concealed
LED provides an interesting, functional light source."

"The Cooledge product provides complete backlighting uniformity
and reduced LED pixilation within a very shallow back box depth,
which is highly desirable. Additionally, the flexible sheet product
allows for similar regularity in curved and complex shape applications,
for which it may have been difficult in the past to find suitable
products to achieve the desired backlighting results."

Rick Tegelaar: Meshmatics Chandelier

Apparatus Studio: Trapeze 1

Neptune Glassworks: Tower Light

ricktegelaar.nl

apparatusstudio.com

neptuneglassworks.com

"This unique and beautiful chandelier is ingeniously
made with only chicken wire, which acts as a
reflector for the small LED light source housed
at the base. The design is both quiet and elegant."

"Each fixture from Apparatus Studio is a piece of art.
These lights can be wall- or ceiling-mounted. Made
with either brass or hand-cast porcelain, the lights
look great as small guiding flush mounts down
a long corridor."

"One of my favorite table lamps, the Tower Light is available in three
sizes, which are all made by hand of solid brass with glass rods.
The lights can be dimmed to one of three settings by gently touching
the gorgeous and genius fixture."

contractdesign.com

MARCH 2016

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