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Lighting to Lust After

Our latest favorite fixtures animate the room and tease the imagination.

Yanzi, designed by Neri & Hu for Artemide, mimics birds atop an aluminum branch. The collection will be available in North America at the end of this year.

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Stickbulb’s aptly named Boom series features a brass core exploding with wood-spined bulbs. Select pieces in the collection are made from salvaged redwood water towers.

stickbulb.com


 

Emerald-blue and black stone pairs with brass hardware in Dark Moon, a collaboration between Pelle and antique shop–cum–jewelry brand Erie Basin.

pelledesigns.com


 

Andrea Anastasio’s Filo for Foscarini proves that the parts of a lamp can be greater than their sum. The deconstructed fixture comes in eight color combinations.

foscarini.com


 

Early 20th-century movements such as art deco and Bauhaus inspired Lantern 3 by Apparatus, in which a trio of porcelain shades hover around a tripartite brass structure.

apparatusstudio.com


 

Atelier de Troupe took West Hollywood’s early-1920s Schindler House as inspiration for a recent lighting series—though this result, the Zé pendant, could fit just as well in a Paris loft.

atelierdetroupe.com


 

The Myriad chandelier by Gabriel Scott recalls natural forms, like branches or bioluminescent organisms, as much as it does fine jewelry.

gabriel-scott.com


 

For Lasvit’s Cipher collection, Yabu Pushelberg created a modular system that can be extended or multiplied for hospitality use, or kept simple for residential spaces.

lasvit.com


 

The Revati collection by Iacoli & McAllister is named after a peripheral star in the Pisces  constellation. The black, pink, or gray bulb make it feel all the more celestial.

iacolimcallister.com


 

In Avenue Road’s Mainkai floor lamp, designed by Sebastian Herkner, opaline shades recall buoys floating over a Spanish marble base.

avenue-road.com


 

Cirque, designed by Clara von Zweigbergk for Louis Poulsen, floats through a room like a hot-air balloon. The whimsical light comes in three sizes and colorways.

louispoulsen.com


 

Christophe Mathieu’s latest design for Marset may be small, but its personality is mighty. The colorful Bicoca lamp is wireless and magnetized, suiting it to metal surfaces.

marset.com


 

Photo: Johanna Seelemann.

The Amsterdam-based Italian duo behind Formafantasma created their Delta collection as an exploration of light’s components: shadow, reflection, color, and space.

formafantasma.com


 

Delicate wire net is transformed into an elegant statement piece in Moooi’s Meshmatics chandelier, designed by Rick Tegelaar.

moooi.com


 

This ash wood console in Saint-Louis’s Folia collection, designed by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance, expands the use of light beyond a room’s walls and ceiling.

saint-louis.com


 

Cirque, designed by Clara von Zweigbergk for Louis Poulsen, floats through a room like a hot-air balloon. The whimsical light comes in three sizes and colorways.

louispoulsen.com


 

A warm light emits from the cocooned Overlap pendants, designed by Michael Anastassiades for Flos. For him, the wonder of this design lies in its incomplete geometry.

flos.com


 

In Light Guide Ring by Sonneman—A Way of Light, apricot or white interiors softly reflect illumination. Available in multiple configurations, the fixture’s highlight is its flexibility.

sonnemanawayoflight.com


 

Blu Dot’s uncomplicated Perimeter table lamp wraps a cloth shade over powder-coated steel loops. It’s also available in black, gray, and blush pink.

bludot.com


 

As the follow-up to Estiluz’s semicircular Volta collection, Revolta brings the family full circle—literally. The piece is composed of rings that can be stretched with acoustic panels.

estiluz.com

 

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