Linear Refraction Floor and Ambiance Light

Silver A' Design Award 2021 in Lighting
CLIENT: Hotel 35
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About Linear Refraction Floor and Ambiance Light

Linear Refraction is a floor light designed for a hotel in Lishui, China. The design is inspired by the rainbow and combines a circle with straight lines. A round patterned glass board projects colored shadows that enrich the surrounding indoor space. The glass board can be rotated a full turn to change the shades and patterns cast on the walls. The base and post are made of aluminum alloy, and the glass is a patterned type used in architecture. A foot switch on the cable turns the light on and off. The floor light measures 400 by 400 by 1500 millimeters.

About the Silver A' Design Award

Linear Refraction Floor and Ambiance Light is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Linear Refraction Floor and Ambiance Light is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Linear Refraction Floor and Ambiance Light is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

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Unique Properties: Linear Refraction series is customized lighting for Hotel 35.
Located in Lishui, the capital of photography, Hotel 35 is the first design hotel in China which merged art village and tourism industry and create a new business model type. Artist Ray Teng Pai tried to explore the relationship between time, space, and person under the theme of photography. Linear Refraction series creates a contemporary composition of geometry in the hotel room, and respond to the photography of art.
Dimensions & Packaging: Foot switch/ Diameter: 400 mm x 400 mm x 1500 mm
Tags: Linear, Light, Embossed glass, Art, Hotel
Production Technology: The floor lamp’s material is all from Taiwan. The material of light base and post is made by aluminum alloy, and we choose the patterned glass of architecture, connect different design area.
Design Challenge: Considering the different demands of travelers and the product’s duration, artist Ray Teng Pai spent much time adjusting the details of the product. From designing to making, the design team not only creates original design style and art performance but also merges sensibility and rationality to realize practical value. Challenging the limit of manufacturing art and fuse traditional craft and unique conception, Ray practiced the aesthetic value of light and shadow.
Inspiration: The design of the Linear Refraction series is inspired by the phenomenon known as the rainbow.
The Linear Refraction - Floor Light consists of a circle and lines. The round glass board of the floor light projects colorful shadows that enrich any indoor environment. Users can freely rotate the glass board 360 degrees to create an array of shadows in a spectrum of shades.
Project Duration: The project started in October 2019 in Taipei and finished in March 2020 in Lishui.
Operation Flow: The footswitch is on the wire, the user can turn it on or off easily by stepping on it. When turning the glass board, the color of light will change and reflect on the wall, building a more fantastic atmosphere.
Image Credits: Ray Teng Pai,2020