Pendant lighting is free-floating and static, whereas adjustable lighting is typically attached to a jointed arm. Berlin-based industrial design firm Studio Flaer subverts this arrangement with their Piuma light fixture, which hangs like a pendant, but can adjust its angle by means of a sliding weight on the handle.
"Piuma is a luminaire that makes the act of balance tangible. The design embodies a physical mechanism in an increasingly digital world. Like a feather, the luminaire floats in space and its dualistic form creates a tension between expected weight and size. Shifting the weight creates strong angles or a stable horizontal. The ultra-light shade rotates on its own axis and directs the light omnidirectionally."
- Swiveling reflector
- Handle for rotating the reflector
- Balance marks
- Adjustable weight
See more of Studio Flaer's work here.
I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.
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Studio Flaer's Suspended Yet Angle-Adjustable Piuma Lighting Fixture
I worked on similar designs for a lighting brand some years ago. The designer had the same idea and solution - a suspended asymetric pendant with an ajustable counter weight. It was a nightmare project and it was left to us product developers to point out to the designer and brand owner the fact that the lamp would rotate freely because it hung from a cord. It could not be fixed at an angle, wind currents in the space where the lamp was installed would cause it to move and rotate constantly. The brand continued to try to solve this lamp long after I left them without succes becuase they stubbonly would not accept they had to use a rod to fix the lamp to a ceiling bracket.
Two thoughts: air currents, and cords or batteries.