GoKawiilThe latest advances in lighting technology for the home are on display in these seven stately specimens.
With color temperature sliders and LED lighting guides that create a diffuse glow, these lamps are able to set any kind of mood. They’re also designed to multitask; some are safe for use indoors and out, wireless models can be carried from room to room, and others are designed for workday productivity as well as bedtime reading.
An added bonus: They’re gentler on the planet, using recycled and renewable materials along with 3D-printing manufacturing techniques that fabricate them on demand. You’ll surely find something here that turns you on.
Words by Boone Ashworth, Michael Calore, Julian Chokkattu, and Jeremy White. Photographs by Andria Lo
This story is part of The Future of Home, a collaboration between the editors of WIRED and Architectural Digest to help you understand what “home” will look like tomorrow and beyond.
The Flos IC Floor Lamp (top) and the Gantri Pier Small Wireless (bottom). PHOTOGRAPH: Andria Lo
Flos IC Floor Lamp
Flos’ floor lamp has an ethereal quality—a floating orb suspended on a slim metal frame. By all rights, it feels as though the frosted glass sphere should tip out of balance, fall, and shatter into a thousand pieces on the floor, but there it hangs. It feels right at home in any stately study, as its right-angle arm hooks inward to hover over the edge of a chair or sofa or pop out of a corner to brighten the room. To tailor it to your space, choose both the frame’s finish and height (either 53 or 73 inches) at checkout. $1,115 and up at dwr.com
Gantri Pier Small Wireless
This simple, cordless light is part of a new product line cocurated by 3D-printed lighting company Gantri and design bigwigs Ammunition, the firm behind the Ember mug and Beats by Dre headphones. The glam lamp’s looks are inspired by the nature and infrastructure of San Francisco, the hometown of both companies, nodding to the support beams of the bayside piers and the architectural curves of Chinatown’s historic buildings. Gantri’s unique manufacturing process—the lamp’s body is 3D-printed from sugarcane-based polymers, then finished by hand and painted in one of 25 vibrant colors—gives each light a smooth, matte texture. It feels just as nice to carry it around as it does to sit and read beside it. A wireless charging base gasses up the 8-inch-tall lamp for 10-plus hours of battery-powered illumination. $348 at gantri.com
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