An Architect’s Guide To: Pendant Lighting


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As sculptural illuminations dramatically suspended from the ceiling, pendant lights are an exciting architectural element that have the ability to completely transform a space. Manufactured in endless shapes, colors and materials, selecting a pendant light can be both thrilling and challenging. This week, we sifted through all the aesthetic and technical components of pendant lighting in order to help guide your future designs.

Primers

How to Specify: Pendant Lighting

“As serious eye candy for designers, selecting pendant lighting can be thrilling and fun. It’s important to think beyond aesthetics, though. Make sure that, in addition to deciphering how you want your lighting to look, you are able to express exactly what you want it to do.” Check out the full story here.

Inspiration

Let it Glow: Detailing Perfect Pendant Lights

“Zen Barn was designed as a linear house interrupted by volumes of light wells, stairs, and courtyard. Formally organized to create a strong sense of indoor-outdoor connections, the project focuses on the interpenetration of views, light, and space along the south side of the home. Outside, reclaimed white oak boards clad the exterior volumes.” Check out the full story here.

Pendant lights, Yakisugi by Kengo Kuma

Yakisugi by Kengo Kuma; Manufactured by Lasvit 

Bright Ideas: 8 Brilliant Pendant Lights Designed by Architects

“Japanese architect Kengo Kuma loves wood, a natural and beautiful material with deep roots in Japanese architecture. His pendant light collection explores the materiality of wood in what Kuma describes as an attempt to capture the wooden soul within glass. Inspired by Yakisugi — the ancient technique of preserving timber by charring its surface — each glass fixture is shaped with wooden molds, while still molten, burning the wood and imprinting its organic texture onto the glass. Since the burnt molds cannot be reused, each piece of glass features a unique, crackled finish which is never duplicated.” Check out the full story here.

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