Lighting design: a sculptural collection

We were commissioned to design a lighting scheme for a client's creekside property in Cornwall. We wanted to use a natural note, to meld with the views over the creek, flagstone floors and exposed beams of the farmhouse, but also find lamps that would fully stand out as strong sculptural pieces. All the images below are courtesy of the designers websites, we're looking forward to photographing the prices in situ when installation is completed. 

The sinuous beauty of 'Gea' by Spanish lighting designer (or more properly artist) Arturo Alvarez is a perfect demonstration of sculptured presence and gentle warm light source. 

Italian lighting designers Karboxx's 'Babel' floor lamp, designed by Fabio Flora, is a Tripod floor lamp with towering outsized shade in honeycomb canvas. 

Karboxx Babel light

'Scantling' by Spanish lighting company Marset provides focussed task/reading light alongside quirky character and charm. Designed by Mathias Hahn, the name Scantling is derived from an old unit of measurement for cutting wood or stone, and reflects its precise engineering. We love its animated personality. 

The 'Leaf' lamp by Swedish design and architectural partners Broberg and Ridderstrale for Nordic design collective Muuto, is a delicate, elegant expression of simplicity which uses energy efficient LED technology. Its a wonderfully subtle piece of design, and its neat proportions make it a hugely versatile piece. 

Santa & Cole's 'TMM' is an absolute classic, designed by legend of the modern Barcelona industrial design scene Miguel Milá in 1961, and looking fresh as ever today. Its simple timber frame allows the shade to be moved up and down, so it's adaptable in function as a standard lamp, or can be focussed to create a reading light. 

Atelier Areti  are an exciting design partnership between French / Austrian sisters Gwendolyn and Guillane Kerschbaumer, who are mainly based in London but work with craftspeople in Germany and Sweden to produce their elegant range of lighting. Their collection is so clean and so beautiful, they are fast becoming serious classics in the lighting scene.  The 'Mimosa' pendant is exquisite, a significant sculptural presence, with a refined organic nature, that will hang over the dining table. 

Finally welcome to the wonderful and outlandish place that is Ango World. The 'Chrysalis Sky' floor lamp features hundreds of natural silk cocoons, threaded together and gently nodding on its stainless steel stem, which produce a beautifully warm glow, a delicate thing of utter originality. 

With thanks to Arturo Alvarez, Karboxx, Marset, Muuto, Santa & Cole, Atelier Areti and Ango World, we're looking forward to photographing and sharing the finished project. It was a pleasure as ever to work with specialist lighting consultants David and Cheryl of Cameron Peters. 

Walnut and power coated steel table

We love a client photo, and this one's a corker! Newly installed rogue workshop coffee table in English walnut (from Eynsham forest) with power coated steel frame. 

And in construction, before it left the workshop....

Really excited about photographing the rest of this interior design project - with a few more tables yet to be installed! 

Art consultancy

Rogue Designs were commissioned to source original artwork for a client's Islington apartment. 

The beautiful series of woodcuts 'Nachtfahrt' (or literally translated, Night Drive) by German artist Christiane Baumgartner immediately stood out for their beauty, originality and haunting narrative quality. Baumgartner transforms her own video still into (sometimes monumental) woodcuts, creating a fascinating junction between new, fleeting image capture, and ancient, painstaking wood carving.

Whist the series works beautifully hung as a block, we chose to hang them in a linear fashion around the room, which works to capture the video still nature, with the story being told sequentially, and the works travel towards and under a bridge for example revealing itself as you move around the space. The environment of the apartment itself, its linear architecture, and the light and views over the cityscape serve to highlight, converse with and contrast with the work. View detailed images here

More about Christiane Baumgartner from Alan Cristea gallery: "Christiane Baumgartner was born in 1967 in Leipzig, Germany, and studied there at the Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst before completing her Masters in Printmaking at the Royal College of Art in London in 1999. She now lives and works in Leipzig. Baumgartner is best known for the monumental woodcuts based on her own films and video stills. She first came to public attention in the UK in EAST international in 2004 and a year later with a major solo exhibition at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham. She was included in the groundbreaking exhibition at MoMA, NY, called Eye on Europe and her work is held in over 30 public collections around the world including the Albertina, Vienna; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin." 

Other links:

Click here for a video of the artist talking about her work courtesy of the Alan Cristea Gallery, showing footage of her stunning exhibition Reel Time there. Also this review "Artist of the Week" from The Guardian newspaper. An in depth review of her work by Paul Coldwell from "Art in Print" with great images.