Combining Steel and Clay, the Pyramid Lamp Is an Updated Take on Craft
Created by Brooklyn design studio In Common With, the fixture plays up contrast, juxtaposing the slickness of a machined base with the hand-hewn rawness of the shade.
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New Lights By Panasonic Are Designed to Make You Less of a Jerk
Unveiled as part of the 2018 London Design Biennale, these futuristic lights turn on when "treasured and handled with care."
9 New Residential Lighting Designs We Love
We've gathered recent releases from the likes of Cerno Group, AlexAllen Studio, Earnest Studio, ANDlight, Vibia, CTO Lighting, Original BTC, and more!
This New Acoustical Lighting Product Spruces Up the Workplace with Space Age Flair
Silent Field 2.0, a new item from Artemide North America designed by Carlotta de Bevilacqua and Laura Pessoni, aims to remedy the shortcomings of the open-office plan.
This New Lighting Fixture Flexes in Any Direction Thanks to 3D Knitted Fabric and Ultra-Thin LEDs
Brooklyn lighting designers Rich Brilliant Willing has teamed up with manufacturer OLEDworks to develop a futuristic, bendable lighting panel.
Can Designers Combat Light Pollution by Embracing Darkness?
In our over-lit cities, lighting designers are fighting back on behalf of darkness and night—not to mention public space and urban vitality.
Designer of Iconic '60s and ’70s Lighting, Robert Sonneman Is Still Producing Striking New Fixtures
After years spent working on other projects—including a stint at Ralph Lauren Home—Sonneman has happily spent the past 15 years back in the lighting industry.
Lighting Designer Suzan Tillotson on the Challenges of LEDs, Urban Lighting, and More
Metropolis sat down with the lighting expert and founder of her eponymous, award-winning New York lighting consultancy to discuss the state of lighting design.
Designer Toan Nguyen Shines a Light on Process and Innovation
With a new customizable lighting system for Vibia, the industrial designer Toan Nguyen finds poetry in mathematics.
FLOS Introduces Reconfigurable Jewelry-Like Light Fixtures
In the new system, called Arrangements, individual elements can be combined and recombined to create one-of-a-kind lighting displays.
OMA's Versatile New XY180 Lighting Collection is Both Minimalist and Punk Rock
The firm's three-piece lighting collection for Delta Light, its first foray into luminaires, will debut in the United States this March.
Circadian Lighting Solutions Are Real and Important—Why Aren't They Being Used?
An ongoing survey of designers reveals the challenges they face and how they can be overcome.
Hubbell Introduces New Hospital Lighting Products
The products Hubbell introduced this year are carefully considered from the perspective of every stakeholder in health care.
Designer Margaux Keller on Her "Amor" Table Lamp for Roche Bobois
“The lamp is inspired directly from a lovers’ relationship,” says Keller. “Ceramic and glass are very different materials, very fragile but strong together at the same time.”
Blue Light is "Catnip" For Our Physiology, But Designers Need to Control It Says ZGF's Daylighting Specialist
ZGF's sustainability strategist Marty Brennan talks with Metropolis about the holy grail of lighting design, sunlight, and its impact on circadian rhythms.
Lucie Koldova on Her "Das Haus" Design For imm Cologne 2018
Challenged by the organizers of imm Cologne to create “a poetic study of light,” Koldova designed her dream house as a wonderland of illumination in various forms.
Brave Matter Designs a Clay and Brass Pendant Topped With Himalayan Salt
The terraced clay luminaire, topped by a hefty brass disk and rounded salt bead, adds warmth to any space.
Milan Preview: Seven Lights to Look Out for at Euroluce
The biennial Euroluce lighting exhibition will showcase LED lights that push the envelope on both performance and perception.
Steven Holl on Zaha Hadid, Maggie's Centre St. Bart's, and Why Postmodernism Was So Terrible
We catch up with the renowned architect and discuss Zaha Hadid, his Maggie's Centre St. Bart's, and why postmodernism was so terrible.
A Japanese Home That Transforms the Humble Window Sill
Inspired by the way a cat inhabits the windowsill, ikmo architects conceptually transformed this home's windowsills into small, configurable rooms.
