Design Count

Design Count

Design Count featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Ikebana

The floor lamp incorporates Japanese ikebana techniques, combining traditional flower arrangement methods with modern design. The design features Eastern aesthetic elements and practical components to provide a functional lighting solution. Equipped with a dual lighting system and dimmer, it offers illumination for both flower displays and reading. The heavy marble base ensures stability, while the lamp serves as both a light source and a stand for flowers, balancing practicality and decorative qualities.

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Aloura

Aloura is conceived for spacious interiors such as hotel lobbies, restaurants, and event halls, where its complex silhouette reads as a central visual element. The chandelier's sculptural geometry gives it a strong presence in the room, while its shifting profile creates varied impressions as it is viewed from different angles. An optional three tone finish adds further nuance to the overall composition.

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Hoor

Hoor Light is a reinterpretation of the Iranian Hooraneh, an architectural element designed to filter daylight through narrow openings. The lamp is formed by two metal plates held together with concealed magnets, enclosing a diffuser that distributes the light evenly. Instead of emitting a direct beam, it produces a gentle illumination that defines the surrounding space. The design connects traditional references with contemporary production methods, merging cultural heritage with present-day use.

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X Modular Lamp

The X Modular Lamp is a modular, user configurable lighting system centered around a patented X hinge mechanism that allows two rotating X shaped light frames to be manually adjusted for directional lighting and sculptural form, supporting multiple configurations, from combined installations to ceiling hung or surface placement, while enabling full collapse into a flat pack state for efficient, sustainable transport and storage across diverse residential and commercial spaces.

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Bangkok

The architecture of the ancient Thai temple became the inspiration for the collection. These structures reflect the principles of the Buddhist universe about the ghostly nature of life. This is expressed in the tiered structure. Between each tier there are light windows that fill the center of the temple with light and illuminate relics. Applying this principle to the design, it was made of several rows of glasses, and LEDs. This creates colorful glare on glass elements and scattered light. Silhouettes were based on the temple of the Emerald Buddha in Bangkok.

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Flatiron

Achille Castiglioni was convinced that the designer should delete, delete, delete and at the end find the core aspect of the design. Bruno Munari was used to say that to complicate things is easy, while to simplify things is very hard. Flatiron comes from the crasis of this two references. A light source encased by a body made by a simple metal sheet with just one fold. The minimum amount of elements for a product with great prominence, a collection of lamps characterized by a design as essential as effective.

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