Tubelight

管灯

Monocle on Design

艺术

2024-10-24

6 分钟
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Boaz Cohen, co-founder of Amsterdam-based studio BCXSY, shares the development process behind the Tubelight, the practice’s playful, award-winning take on fluorescent lights.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  • This is Monocle on Design Extra.

  • It's a short show to accompany our weekly program where we discuss everything from architecture and craft to furniture and fashion.

  • I'm Maile Evans.

  • Fluorescent lights have illuminated many a library, restaurant and workspace.

  • Though practical, these industrial light sources with accompanying buzz and occasional flick aren't usually synonymous with the words cozy or homely.

  • But the Amsterdam studio Bixi has taken the fluorescent light as its starting point for their own playful take on this lighting type.

  • The tube light has a minimalist design and features a flexible strip tube that can be arranged into numerous configurations and quite literally bends the rules of lighting.

  • It won the NYC by Design award for best architectural lighting earlier this year and is produced in collaboration collaboration with the Dutch furniture, interior and lighting design company moi.

  • And it's at the MOI showroom in Amsterdam that I caught up with Boas Cohen.

  • He's a co founder and designer at bixie.

  • It's there that we discussed the developments of the tube light and some of its most intriguing characteristics.

  • It's one of those most used at least also when you talk about quantity, like lighting types in the world for almost a century now, and it's at the same time not the most popular, to say the least.

  • I cannot really explain or say why, but I always liked it.

  • It has this industrial appeal and it's very plain and very bright.

  • It's very unnatural.

  • So some lights try to, especially when you put lampshades or something in domestic environment, like you kind of try to create this warmth and it's very unapologetic.

  • I always appreciated it actually, from appreciating.

  • It to creating your very own version or form of fluorescent lighting.

  • Talk me through that journey or maybe some of the challenges in arriving at the final piece that you've been showcasing today.

  • One of the things that influence often our work is literally how you look and see things.