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Studio Flaer's Suspended Yet Angle-Adjustable Piuma Lighting Fixture

Work-light balance

By Rain Noe - June 1, 2021

in Lighting

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."

Translations of call-outs, top to bottom:

- Swiveling reflector

- Handle for rotating the reflector

- Balance marks

- Adjustable weight

See more of Studio Flaer's work here.

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Hans Marvell

4 years ago

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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.

Secondly, the light-source and shade shape don't relate - the shade does'nt reflect or diffuse the light, and the lighting source is not sheilded. There are few aspects that sepate a lamp from being a light holder. A lamp combines shades, reflectors and light holder types to create a specific lighting type. A light holder literally only holds a lighting source without adding any direction or control to the light. I could write a whole (rant) article on the subject. My advice on this specific design is to add an adjustable rod and bracket to mount the lamp to a ceiling or wall (see DSW Editions for example). Also consider a diffuser in front of the light source that will direct and distribute the light in a controlled direction.

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4 years ago

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Two thoughts: air currents, and cords or batteries.

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