Lodes’ contemporary chandelier takes lighting to cloud nine
Venice-based lighting innovator Lodes launches ‘Random Cloud’, a contemporary chandelier
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In partnership with Lodes
Blending design, art and technology, Taiwan-born designer Chia-Ying Lee’s work spans from products to installations. ‘Random Cloud’, her latest project for Venetian lighting company Lodes, is a contemporary play on the notion of a chandelier, conceived as an evolution of the brand’s ‘Random Solo’ pendant light and connecting multiple glass pendants to a central canopy.
Lodes’ ‘Random Cloud’ contemporary chandelier
The new chandelier’s pendants can be grouped to create ‘clouds’ of seven, 14, 19, or 23 lights via cables cut to various lengths. Each glass sphere is sized at 23cm or 28cm in diameter and the clusters are available in seven colour schemes, resulting in a fluid and elegant luminescent composition.
‘“Random Cloud” catches the essence of why a cloud keeps fascinating us: voluminous yet weightless and floating,’ explains its designer. ‘To be able to express these contradictory [characteristics] with a very simple formation is a joy for me.’
Thanks to the light source emanating from a 3W LED module (available with two ‘colour temperatures’, 2,700 or 3,000K) hidden in a silicon housing at the top of each glass sphere, each pendant is illuminated evenly – the larger the cluster, the bigger the light output.
With its wide choice of configurations, ‘Random Cloud’ is both a high-performance light source and an arresting, decorative object, adding a focal point to entryways, living rooms and dining areas.
‘“Random” has been part of our collection since 2017,’ says Massimiliano Tosetto, managing director of Lodes, which has been designing and producing lighting solutions for interiors and exteriors since 1950, and today fuses contemporary design and innovative technology with high-quality materials. ‘We are pleased to extend this statement piece into a dynamic, eye-catching chandelier.’
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