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Sep 24

Movie: Bocci 28.280 at the V&A

Posted in: Bocci, design movies, London Design Festival 2013, other movies

London Design Festival 2013: Canadian lighting brand Bocci has sent us this movie showing its giant chandelier of colourful glass spheres being installed in the main hall of London’s V&A museum.

Movie: Bocci 28.280 at the V&A

The 28.280 light installation is made of 280 of Bocci‘s 28 series glass bauble lights, each suspended from a thin copper wire – read more about the design in our previous story.

Movie: Bocci 28.280 at the V&A

This time-lapse movie shows how the tendrils of the chandelier were unfurled before the top was hoisted up through a hole in the ceiling of the V&A museum‘s main hall.

Movie: Bocci 28.280 at the V&A

Also at the museum for this year’s London Design Festival, an installation of 5000 paper windmills was set up in a doorway and a still life of a dinner party in progress was arranged in one of the galleries.

Movie: Bocci 28.280 at the V&A

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Sep 13

Bocci 28.280 at the V&A

Posted in: Bocci, chandeliers, London Design Festival 2013, slideshows

Canadian lighting brand Bocci has installed a giant chandelier of colourful glass spheres in the main hall of the V&A museum for the London Design Festival, which kicks off on Saturday (+ slideshow).

Bocci 28.280 at the V&A

Bocci has suspended 280 of its 28 series of hand-blown glass lights on spindly copper wires to create a chandelier designed by Omer Arbel.

Bocci 28.280 at the V&A

“To finally build a piece in a very tall space, and at the V&A no less, really excites us,” said Arbel. “We’ve envisioned the most ambitious iteration of our 28 to date.”

Bocci 28.280 at the V&A

The chandelier descends 30 metres from the ceiling of the first floor gallery and through a hole in the floor to emerge into the museum’s main atrium.

Bocci 28.280 at the V&A

Glass lights are scattered down the column of copper wires that falls straight at the top of the piece, then splays outward haphazardly in the foyer.

Bocci 28.280 at the V&A

During last year’s London Design Festival, the V&A museum hosted one installation that visualised data streams from all over the city and another where drops of coloured ink fell from the top of a stone staircase into a glass tank six storeys below.

Bocci 28.280 at the V&A

Bocci’s 28 lights have also been used to create chandeliers for Spazio Rosanna Orlandi in Milan and a small cafe in Vancouver.

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More information from Bocci below:

Bocci 28.280

A surreal light installation by Bocci created as part of the London Design Festival exhibits at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

During this year’s London Design Festival eleventh edition, the Canadian design brand Bocci will present a lighting installation at the festival’s hub venue, the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Bocci 28.280 at the V&A

Entitled 28.280 and designed by Omer Arbel, the installation is a massive vertically punctuated light installation located at the main atrium of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The installation, featuring Bocci’s celebrated 28, will descend through the large existing void cutting through the entire length of the V&A building, with an astonishing height of more than 30 meters. The intent of the installation is twofold; On the one hand, it is a pure celebration of the monumental open height of the building, which uses light to crystallise a powerful phenomenological experience for the viewer. On the other hand, it is the most ambitious exploration to date of a novel glass blowing technique.

Bocci 28.280 at the V&A

28 is an exploration of a fabrication process – part of Arbel’s and Bocci’s quest for specificity. Instead of designing form itself, here the intent was to design a system that haphazardly yields form, almost as a byproduct. 28 pendants result from a complex glass blowing technique whereby air pressure is introduced into and then removed from a glass matrix which is intermittently heated and then rapidly cooled. The result is a distorted spherical shape with a composed collection of inner shapes, one of which is made of opaque milk glass and houses a light source.

Bocci 28.280 at the V&A

280 of these discreet 28 units will be hung within a 30 metre vertical drop, suspended by a novel, perhaps awkward and heavy copper suspension system, that promises to have as much presence or more than the glass it supports. The installation continues Omer’s personal research into the process of making, and documents Arbel’s remarkable journey as an articulator of form.

“We have always dreamed of mounting a light installation in a very very tall space… In the world of ideas, a tall space is the most appropriate environment for our pieces (abstractly speaking, I could say the ONLY environment for our pieces). Hence, to have the opportunity to finally build a piece in a very tall space, and at the V&A no less, really excites us on both a personal and professional level. We’ve envisioned the most ambitious iteration of our 28 to date.” – Omer Arbel

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Mar 07

57 Series by Omer Arbel for Bocci

Posted in: Bocci, design movies, Gwenael Lewis, Milan 2013, other movies

In this movie by Gwenael Lewis, Canadian lighting company Bocci’s creative director Omer Arbel describes how bubbles in the firm’s latest chandelier look like an “internal universe” when illuminated.

"When lit an internal universe comes alive" - Omer Arbel of Bocci

The film show glass blowers using tools to form spheres of molten glass that they mould together and reheat into a cohesive, cloud-like piece. “We began with the idea that we can manipulate the malleability of glass based on its temperature,” says Arbel.

"When lit an internal universe comes alive" - Omer Arbel of Bocci

Blowing air into the glowing glass creates bubbles and pockets depending on the temperature of different areas. “The air is pushed into the assembly and makes its way out through the path of least resistance, which is where the glass is hottest,” Arbel explains.

"When lit an internal universe comes alive" - Omer Arbel of Bocci

The light appears to be a smooth, shiny bobbled surface while off, but the air pockets become visible when it is turned on. “When lit, an internal universe comes alive,” Arbel says.

The 57 Series will be unveiled as the centrepiece for Bocci‘s stand at Euroluce trade fair in Milan during Salone Internazionale del Mobile next month. We’ve featured a few movies by Gwenael Lewis about the making of Bocci chandeliers, including the 28 series and 14 series lights.

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Here’s some more information from Bocci:

Bocci at Eurolace 2013

During this year’s Milan Saloni, Bocci will be exhibiting for the first time at Euroluce. In conjunction with the world’s largest furniture exhibition, Salone del Mobile, the biennial Euroluce trade fair serves as a major platform for luminaire manufactures with high design ambitions. At the centerpiece of their 280 square meter stand, Bocci will unveil a new flexible chandelier called 57 in a dramatic installation.

Designed by Omer Arbel, Bocci’s Creative Diretor, 57 is an exploration of a technique of making analogous to that used for producing open cell foam. The process involves trapping voids of air of different sizes and configurations within a glass matrix, and then injecting air into the composition, yielding a shape loosely referencing a rain cloud. These pockets of air remain invisible when the piece is off, but come alive to reveal an interior universe when the piece is turned on. As with all of Arbel’s recent body of work, it is the technique of making that yields 57’s form, which is unique in every iteration of the procedure.

A flexible suspension system allows easy composition: Pendants may be clustered such that they touch each other, referencing a cloudy sky (an especially poignant reference in the City of Vancouver, where the idea was born); they may also be composed as a field, such that each piece can be perceived individually, perhaps referencing a child’s drawing of a could (equally poignant but in a more universal manner). Most chandeliers are fundamentally vertical in composition, which is why they work best in rooms with high ceilings; in contrast, 57 is conceived as a layer or strata of light, or in other words, a horizontal chandelier.

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Sep 27

Movie: Omer Arbel on “making chandeliers on an agricultural farm”

Posted in: Bocci, Gwenael Lewis

In this movie by Gwenael Lewis, designer Omer Arbel talks about the story behind the 14 Series lights he produced under-the-radar in a barn to create a chandelier for Canadian lighting company Bocci.