Walk into a Luceplan showroom and you might encounter hovering luminescent forms like none you’ve seen before. Finally being introduced stateside, these unique suspension fixtures that were launched in Europe last year are at once stunning, intriguing, organic and otherworldly. Yet each has a different personality that sets it apart from the others.
Soleil Noir
Architect Odile Decq, who previously designed Luceplan’s acoustical light fixture Pétale, created the futuristic Soleil Noir, a suspension and ceiling luminaire that sports an asymmetric organic-shape diffuser rendered in molded polyurethane foam. A small disk conceals the 35-Watt LED light source and directs the light up into the diffuser to produce uniform indirect illumination. Available in white or black with a black LED disk, Soleil Noir measures 47.2 inches on its longest side and 24.6 inches on its shortest.
Soleil Noir
Like a burst of bubbles in a glass of champagne (or a dollop of shiny caviar), Stochastic by Daniel Rybakken is a cluster-style chandelier composed of blown-glass spheres set at different heights around a central optical LED light module via varied-length stainless steel rods. Because the light source is not housed within the spheres, and each sphere is attached to a separate rod, designers or end users can arrange the spheres to their liking, making each combination truly a one-off. The spheres are available in metallized or satin-white finish.
Stochastic
Mesh
Whereas Stochastic offered a solid-mass aesthetic, Francisco Gomez Paz’s Mesh boasts a dramatic hollow one that is a lot more high-tech than it first appears. Evoking a fishnet, the thin lattice frame is constructed of steel cables onto which individual LEDs with polycarbonate lenses are mounted. But the kicker is in the lighting control capabilities: Various groupings of LEDs can be powered on or shut off to provide general or direct lighting.
Mesh