Insights| A working day with Umut Yamac British architect, sculptor and designer Umut Yamac explores the intersection between light, movement and space. Fascinated by how certain objects, activated by their surroundings, transcend their everyday purpose and enable ...
Lighting Solutions| Winter Retreat: Restorative atmospheres to counter the cold As the winter months draw near, the days get shorter and the temperature starts to drop. Feeling the cold is something we experience physically as well as emotionally; cool-white light, bare trees and ...
Insights| Stories Behind: Knit Light and materiality collide with Knit. Light seeps outwards through a single knitted lycra sleeve stretched over an oblate polymer diffuser, bathing the surrounding space in a soft 360 degree ...
Projects| An industrial space meets cosy lighting As technology continues to radically alter our working practices and lifestyles, new ways of overlapping both are constantly emerging. Like this new typology, a combination of a co-working space and a restaurant, designed ...
Insights| Stories Behind: Array Composed of fine threads pulled taut between two aluminium rings, Array is an exploration of light, space and materiality. Designer Umut Yamac manipulates layers of thread into majestic, three-dimensional volumes ...
Insights| Architecture & Cinema Architecture and design play a fundamental role in cinema, not just through carefully constructed backdrops, either real or fictional; but also, as metaphorical elements that help the viewer to delve into the psyche of ...
Lighting Solutions| Design for the senses: the rise of wellness spaces In today's fast-paced world, stress and anxiety are prevalent. Our homes have become more than just a place to sleep – they are sanctuaries that nourish our minds and bodies away from the ...
Lighting Solutions| Flamingo Mini: Deconstruction as exploration Whether natural or artificial, light is intrinsic to our collective and individual wellbeing. To visually deconstruct light -its qualities, temperature and direction- is to better understand it. Designed by Antoni Arola, Flamingo Mini ...
Insights| Q&A: Umut Yamac Umut Yamac is a British architect and designer whose work explores the middle ground between architecture and light. Taking his inspiration from nature, his work is defined by rigorous craftsmanship and a meticulous ...
Projects| Vibia lighting illuminates minimalist contemporary residence Design studio Olivegrey completes an elegant two-storey residence in Portugal, featuring a bright open-plan living room with a broad mezzanine and impressive floor-to-ceiling windows. A minimalist architecture of pure forms, the design studio creates ...
Lighting Solutions| Deconstructing light: Introducing Flamingo Mini Flamingo Mini’s delicate, deconstructed silhouette expresses a sense of extreme lightness. As elegant as the bird that inspired it, the fixture hovers overhead, casting diffuse gradations of soothing light through a synthesis of ...
Lighting Solutions| Enveloping light: Introducing Array Array is an exploration of thread and its potential to create lightweight and dynamic sculptures of light. Composed of an array of fine threads pulled taut between two rings, the collection presents a ...