Country Pick 2018 / / Professional

Transforma - expanding chandelier

• Company
  Jacob Antoni, Canada
• Lead Designer
  Jacob Antoni
• Client
  Jacob Antoni Design
• Project Link
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• Other credit
  Photos By Jacob Antoni

This unique lamp design reimagines the chandelier as a modern expandable form. The user easily transforms the lamp by hand. The illumination is created through warm LEDs facing both up to the ceiling and downwards. In the closed position, only 30% of the LEDs shine directly, while the rest are covered by the overlapping frame and emit an indirect, sidewards glow. As the lamp opens, more LEDs become visible, increasing the intensity as well as the distribution of light.
A product line made from one single element. It is available in circle, rectangle, and triangle forms.

Bio
Jacob Antoni is an award-winning industrial designer, product developer, and architect. Originally from Berlin, Germany, and currently based in Vancouver, Canada, his innovative designs push the limits of convention, seeking simplicity, introducing exciting twists in form and function.
My designs have been exhibited at NYC’s Wanted Design, the Interior Design Show Toronto, Toronto’s Off-Site Festival, and have been featured in Azure Magazine, Designlines Magazine, Archello, The Globe & Mail and Next Home Magazine.

Products available via JACOBANTONI.com, Betacalco and retailers.

Other prizes
My light design “Transforma - expanding chandelier” won the European Product Design Award in Gold 2018. My luminaire “Latitude” won the Best Prototype Award at IDS Toronto 2016, was a runner up for the prestigious European Red Dot Design Award, and received a NYCxDesign Award Honouree at the New York Design Week 2016. Award of Distinction for Artistic Excellence, Art Space Toronto 2015