18/07/2018 - “North is a system within space. It’s like the light from the sun that changes its height and position over the year”, Arik Levy
With North for Vibia, Arik Levy has come up with a new category of lamp. One that fuses a floor lamp and a suspended lamp, recreating a floating effect.
North marks a new archetypal light fitting. Combining two typologies, floor and suspension. A floating fitting, hanging from the ceiling in an almost imperceptible way while the electrical connection is provided at floor level. NORTH generates a uniform light with a localised character that is flexible, provided where it is needed. The counterweight placed on the ground guides the electrical cable and allows the stem and shade to be placed wherever required.
“When you come into a space and you see these glows in different locations where they are not expected, they are not from the ceiling, they are not from the wall, they are not from the floor, it starts to create a different gravity into the space and if you have enough imagination then it locks into spaces where you have never been before”, Arik Levy
The collection is characterised by its LED light source, great flexibility and choice of finishes; in graphite, white, cream and matt blue. These elements lend an efficient and highly interactive character that is equally appropriate for private residential, public or contract applications.
Suspended from the ceiling via an almost invisible steel cable, the light is equipped with a counterweight placed on the ground that guides the electrical cable and allows the stem and the aluminum shade to be placed wherever required. Carbon fibre rod structure and methacrylate diffuser.
Arik Levy fragments the parts of the lamp and reconfigures them to introduce more variables of light within space. North represents an exercise in utilitarian and poetic deconstruction.
Vibia on Archiproducts.com
Vibia on Archiproducts.com
