Evoking a gallery of stars, Robin Carpenter’s eye-catching LED chandelier, Spiralight, demonstrates how good those little light emitting diodes can look when they are used in a clever way. This is what LED lighting should be all about. The creative LED Chandelier recently made waves at the IMM Cologne design fair 2007 . Delicately suspended with 216 LEDS meticulously interwoven into a single twisting strand, the stunning Spiralightis typical of the Berlin-based designer’s signature aesthetic – in evoking a sense of the organic by way of obstructing symmetry in linear production via algorithms.
As for her inspiration for the chandelier, Carpenter claims that she was interested in creating a work which channeled the effect of ‘tracing a shooting star’. The unique piece succeeded in nabbing the German Design Council’s weightiest honor at the IMM Cologne Fair – the Lights of the Future 2006 award.
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It seems to look better when lit. Otherwise, it looks like a quirky art piece.
A real improvement over current selection of chandeliers. send me a catalog if possible.
Lyrical, dramatic and quite beautiful. Congradulations to the Robin on a “Stellar” work.
Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, LED is the future of lighting design and it’s good
to see designers embracing it in such an artistic manner.
It relates a home enviornment perfectly with life’s bigger picture, and in a beautiful way!
I have to say, this is brilliant!
LED is inexpensive and it LASTS!
this design is fantasitc, and has a real market potential.
I hope to see more of these in the future.
fantastic
wow! nice work! amazing lamps =)